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Peripherals DVDs and Bootable USBs Booting from Removable Media Using dotISO Files Monitors & Projectors Using an External Display or Projector with a Notebook Printers Cleaning Printheads Parallel Port Printers Sharing Printers via CUPS Scanners Scanning Slides using CanoScan

Software Backup Interesting_Techniques General Interesting_Programs Image and Photo Editing Office OpenOffice Vector Drawing Hardware Disks Advanced Format (AF) Drives coming soon Solid State Drives (SSD) Most SSD have SATA III (6 Gb/s) Interface. Older mainboards having only SATA II controllers will deliver only half the advertised speed might not operate an SSD at all Rpeters17:35, 5 September 2012 (EST) `