Using .NET for your project without MS Office...

And "suddenly" you can't print or especially print preview a document without a new version of Office, Because your target hardware is outdated, has Office 2000 and everyone else is okay with that.
Your options are:
1. To rollback to a Very, Very old version of .NET, hoping that you haven't implemented any features from the newer ones.
2. Suck it up and try to force your client to upgrade all their workstations to Office 2010. When they see the price tag of that upgrade they will laugh at you and your relationship with them will end shortly.
3. You could buy some expensive third-party libraries that implement needed features.

But what if you're out of budget and can't rollback?

One easy solution that I found was good old HTML. One can hide an IE browser windows in the application page and then use it to load and print preview a static HTML page, which can be easily created from the required Word document.

Problem solved!

Cross-platform Synergy

 Synergy

   Have you ever had two different computers side by side and wished you didn't need 2 mice and keyboards? I have. A while ago I coincidentally came across Synergy. This cross-platform tool allows one to control several computers with 1 mouse and 1 keyboard. Bonus: it's completely free. My Debian laptop is sitting to the right of my dual monitor Win7 setup and I can now effectively use it to browse internet, as well as copy-paste code to and from it. Yes, you heard it right, Synergy allows to share the clipboard between the systems.

Internet access through another PC via a crossover cable

 Intro

   Yesterday I decided to connect my laptop to the internet through my desktop computer, main reason for that being the fact that my wireless router is hitting it's ceiling and having problems maintaining so many Wi-Fi clients.