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How to avoid Firefox overwriting visit date in history?

In firefox in Ctrl+B library, there is history. For each webpage the history items lists name, tags, location, visit date, visit count, etc. My problem if that I revisit a page it overwrites visit ...
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How can I reliably archive the content of UDF formatted CDs and DVDs

I have been looking into copying the contents of old CDs onto mobile disks in order to save space and preserve the content, since rewritable CDs appear to degrade over time (at least the ones I am ...
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reading an old MSWord doc / data preservation

I have an old MS Word document from c.1997 that I would like to convert/render correctly. OpenOffice will open the document, but accented characters do not render. It appears correct otherwise. I ...
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