I was asked the other day about making a PDF automatically start up when a CD or USB stick is inserted into the computer.
When you want to make something autorun, you need to create a file called autorun.inf and pop it onto CD. The usual scenario is that the autorun will call a program [...]

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There used to be a time when we lived in one-car households and with just one TV set – for those younger than 40: really it’s true, we really did live like that.
Then the 80s came, and that all changed.

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When I got my N310 I was determined that I would make a concerted effort to run Ubuntu on it.
I’ve tried a few times over the past couple of years to use Ubuntu, but I always hit a compatibility issue of some sort that takes longer than it should to fix, and have gone back [...]

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