PC Basics. If you have an interest in Personal Computers and you don't know anything about your hardware, check in here for a brief look  inside.
Cloning a Hard Drive. Make an exact bootable copy of all the data that's on your hard drive. It's saved my data from several hard drive crashes.
BASIC COMPUTER INFORMATION
Our 1870s House. Its Web site is still
 under construction. Maybe someday ... .
One of Peggy's hobbies is making Peddy Teddy Bears.
Come visit Peggy's Bear House.
Some of Peggy's Bears.
Peg making Bears.
Chloe and her treat.
Daisy, Chloe and Mac
Read the life and death story of my Scottish Terriers Ms Bear and Mr Bear.
Mr Scottie Bear
Mr Scottie Bear

This Website is authored and maintained by Howard D. Dickens (Doug).
                                Copyright © 2004 – 2012.       

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Spend a few moments with some childhood memories from the early 1930s and to the present. This site is now located on the Dickens site.
On Rainbow Bridge
Methodist Church at
Hurricane Creek
Dickens Cemetery at Hurricane Creek.
MrBear,  2/16/91 - 2/9/03
Searching for OLD
Industrial CLOCK ID:
Make a simple motherboard jig for your workbench, pg 3 of Dead Comp Repairs.
Peggy suffered a heart attack Christmas morning of 2006. We are happy to report that no such event happened again. Click the link below to read an account of how it happened in 2006 and links to articles that explain important differences in male/female heart attack symptoms.  There  is now a link to many Medical subjects on that page. 
When you send an Email, please place something relevant in the subject line or my spam blocker won't let it pass. If it does pass and I don't recognise what's
in the subject line, I won't open it.
Calculus Test 
from an Email.
My kind of logic.
I have a method of using two PATA drives, each with a different operating system, on one desktop computer, using an external toggle switch to choose between the drives. I don't want any internal communication between the two systems. This works for me using Linux on one drive and another system on the other.  This might not work on all motherboard/drive combinations - it does on my three computers. I've now used this method on several computers and it works fine. Posted on 12/01/07 - still using them daily in 2011. This is for PATA drives. I haven't tried it on SATA drives. Click the link below:
I was 70 when we bought our house and began 6 months of work in 2002.
The Dickens section has grown so much that it now has its own Web site. For Dickens at Hurricane Creek in Smith Co. TN, also Robertson County TN, Clayton Co. Iowa and others, click the link below: 
Linux users : if my pages don't display correctly,  make sure you have "msttcorefonts" installed.

COMPANION PET PAGES

Pet Pages has outgrown the Home Page so I've made a Pet Pages section just for our animal friends. Visit our Pet Pages and send me your pet pictures.

DOUG  &  PEGGY'S  SITE

Public Notice: there are several handyman  do-it-yourself  items on this Web site that require some care when using them or the tools and/or electricity when constructing them. I offer my ideas freely and if you use any of these ideas you are responsible for all aspects of that use. If you attempt to construct and/or use any of these items, you do so at your own risk.  Thank you, Doug Dickens.

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Do you need to wash out the gutters on your house? Here's a simple device that you can make in a few minutes that will reach your low-hanging gutters without using a ladder. Click the link below:
Do you have a wireless doorbell? Would you like to use it many feet beyond its range or would you like it to signal when someone has opened a remote gate or door? I'll show you how I modified mine to do these things. It doesn't take an electronics whiz to do it. Click the link below.
The information below is very basic. I've built and repaired many basic computers - nothing fancy or cutting edge - but they are inexpensive, work well, and are adequate for daily use.  (P) ATA drives.
To our visitors from around the world: thank you for visiting and do come back.
I can recover personal files from a corrupted operating
system - if the hard drive itself is not damaged and will still run. I use Ubuntu for that operation. I made a page to show how I do it. Click Here:  Rescuing Files
Can't locate a replacement transflow/crossflow blower for your fireplace insert? I found one.
We adopted this sweet Scottish Terrier named Chloe after she was rescued from a puppy mill. See her story. Update: Chloe was diagnosed with
congestive heart failure on March 14, 2009. She died today October 02, 2010.
There is a page explaining Chloe's CHF.

Click on the ClustrMap above to see where our visitors to this page came from. Visitors to our other pages are not counted. Thank you for visiting.

November 2011. We are pleased to have visitors to this Web page from 81 countries around the world. Some vist often, some just passing by. Thank you for visiting. 
(This information came from ClustrMaps ™.)

Our 2011- 2012 Congress: the worst since the late 1920's and early 1930's.

What does the government do with your Social Security tax payments? You might be surprised.  This subject has been expanded and is still growing.    March 2011.

Who is or isn't a friend of the working class in the USA? Same as in the 1920's and 30's. Read pages 3, 5, 6 and 7 of my story about life in the 1930's and you
will reach a conclusion.  I was a Great Depression child. Click the link below.
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A few months ago, Aardvark Glass of Louisville, KY had to close their doors due to a lack of building construction in this poor economy. But guess what? You can't keep a good man down
and John Diebold is a good man. It's now Aardvark Again, and fully back in business.  If you
need any stained glass product, John can make it. From small items like unique lamp shades,
picture frames and memorials to decorative windows and doors, one or many, large or small.             
Below: Our New Email
address.

A skilled glass artisan is rare. If you need the services of a talented perfectionist, John Diebold is the man and AARDVARK AGAIN is the place. See samples of John's work on his new Web site. Click on any of his site pictures to see more
of  his work.

This is not a paid advertisement. Mr. Diebold deserves the attention.

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Their Web site covers many subjects of interest to International visitors from gardening and family to pets, computers, and travel. There are links provided to several sites offering free computer services and many other items of interest.
Here are some automobile subjects: 
I have several older computers that are all operational and are kept in good running
condition, so much of my computer repair information involves older computers.   
Sorry to say that portable TV's are no longer useful with the new digital signals
but the same battery contacts are used in various portable devices.
Yes, I'm still alive in 2011.
CD/DVD tray locked? I was tired of searching for a paper clip to insert
into the little hole to unlock the tray so I made a permanent lever to
remedy the problem:  Click Here

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and
 opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."   Thomas Paine, 1734 - 1809

AARDVARK AGAIN!
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