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Category: Odds and Ends

Articles that don’t fit neatly into a category. May not necessarily be as career-focused as some of my other material.

Where do our electronics go at the end of their life?
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Where do our electronics go at the end of their life?

Dallas MarksDecember 26, 2013February 23, 2026

Where do our discarded electronics end up?

The Hour of Code
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The Hour of Code

Dallas MarksDecember 9, 2013March 8, 2026

Join the Hour of Code this week.

Jobs – a movie review
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Jobs – a movie review

Dallas MarksAugust 19, 2013March 1, 2026

My review of Jobs, the movie

Create Popular Windows Desktop Shortcuts for All Users
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Create Popular Windows Desktop Shortcuts for All Users

Dallas MarksJuly 10, 2013April 25, 2017

Create public shortcuts to make everyone’s life easier.

How to Find Microsoft Windows Uptime?
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How to Find Microsoft Windows Uptime?

Dallas MarksJuly 5, 2013May 19, 2021

Unix and Linux users can easily determine the uptime of their system by entering the command who -b.  Microsoft Windows users…

Odds and Ends

SAP Support Portal Enhancement Request

Dallas MarksJuly 3, 2013

Shorter product names or wider drop-down lists. Your call, SAP.

Odds and Ends

Steve Jobs on Legacy

Dallas MarksJune 21, 2013

This is a field where one does one’s work and in 10 years it’s obsolete.

A Glimpse of SAP BusinessObjects BI 5.0
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A Glimpse of SAP BusinessObjects BI 5.0

Dallas MarksApril 1, 2013April 26, 2017

A select few customers and partners are getting an early preview of SAP BusinessObjects BI 5.0.

Learning How to Think
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Learning How to Think

Dallas MarksFebruary 27, 2013April 21, 2017

Inspiring the next generation to learn coding.

Dashboards, Odds and Ends

A Plug for your Adobe Flash Plug-In

Dallas MarksFebruary 18, 2013April 25, 2017

Adobe really wants you to keep using your Flash player.

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About Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

As a cloud and analytics practitioner, author, instructional designer, and trainer, I help organizations harness the power of analytics in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid. I prefer piano keyboards over computer keyboards when not blogging or tweeting about analytics.

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