Diary of a Facebook user — based on Diary of an AOL user
July 18 – I just tried to connect to Facebook. I’ve heard it is the best, most secure social networking service I can use. They even included an account recovery code! I’d better hold onto it in... Read More
Create Wine Prefix
If you want to create a new Wine Prefix in Linux the following command (from the terminal) will create a 32bit Wine Prefix. WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-name" WINEARCH=win32 winecfg Should you requi... Read More
Wine 4.x to 5.0
Upgrading Wine 4.x to 5.0 on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon 64bit. Commands in terminal. sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.... Read More
More than 10 Simultaneous Transfers in Filezilla
If you want to have more than 10 Simultaneous Transfers in Filezilla I have found editing the following two files worked for me. First make a backup of any files you are going to edit. Edit your filez... Read More
Linux File System
Here is a quick list of the linux file system (FS) directories and what they are for. This has helped me find my way around a fair bit. /bin – binaries, basic binary files/programs – eve... Read More
List services running on Linux Mint 19
Here is a good command that will give you a list of services and whether or not they have started. From your terminal window / command prompt run: systemctl list-unit-files --type=service and it will ... Read More
GZDoom Builder running under Wine / Linux
I have finally got GZDoom Builder running under Wine in Linux Mint. I’m going to write this down before I forget what steps I’ve taken. 🙂 To make this work; I did / had / was running:... Read More
Batch file rename based on timestamp
I had numerous MTS video files from my camera all with the names 00000.mts and 00001.mts et cetera. Not really helpful. When looking at the files in the file explorer (nemo, linux mint) I didn’t... Read More