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Ubuntu Books

From Oreilly:

Get Ubuntu Linux from [here]

AnyDVD 6.0.4.2

Publisher’s Description: AnyDVD allows you to decrypt CSS encrypted DVDs on the fly. Insert your CSS- (Content Scrambling System) and RPC (Region Code Protected) – protected DVD into your DVD drive. It will detect it and automatically remove the protection. It only takes a few seconds. Even if your drive is not region-free, immediately you’ll get a chance to watch movies that don’t match your drives region code. Get it [here]

Mike Tech Show – Podcast – #77 – 07-29-06

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(33 minutes)

Show #77 Notes

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Happy System Administrator Day

Today we celebrated SysAdmin Day by dealing with a complete building power outage. Too bad I recorded Show #77 last night, I have a lot of things to talk about from today. I will be posting the show later tonight. Visit [here] for more detailed information on System Administrators Appreciation Day.

novaPDF

novaPDF is a PDF creator for Windows that allows you to easily create professional quality documents in industry-standard PDF file format. Get it [here]

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Answers to Show #76 Questions

For the Excel password question from Chris:

The first is a freeware program. It is an excel macro that will remove passwords from within excel, ie if you have protected a sheet or workbook and then forgotten the password this macro will add a couple of extra commands to the excel toolbar called “unprotect sheet” and “unprotect workbook”. This work fine as I have used it a couple of times myself to recover old spreadsheets with macros and hidden sheets which I have long forgotten the passwords to. – It doesn’t actually find the password just bypasses it so you can access the protected sheet/workbook. There is also a link on the page to “excel key” which is a commercial program to remove any excel passwords. [here]

The next link below is a free excel password cracker which I haven’t tried but could be worth a look. – This is for removing passwords which restrict you from opening an excel spreadsheet which is I believe what Andrew was referring to. [here]

Failing this option there are a number of commercial programs available at reasonable prices and the link below is a list of several of these. [here]

For uninstalling Windows Media Player 11 from Brian:

In Add/Remove Programs, check the box “show updates” WMP11 will appear with all the Microsoft hotfixes etc.

Summer travel

From the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Tech Show – Podcast – #76 – 07-22-06

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(39 minutes)

Show #76 Notes

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  • Excel password recovery tool?
  • Best way to uninstall QuickTime and Windows Media Player 11?
  • Email me at mike@miketechshow.com
  • Voice mail: (240) 949-2450

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