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Diary of a Facebook user — based on Diary of an AOL user

Posted on 30 May 2022 by davidmlesk

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

Posted on 14 September 202117 September 2021 by davidmlesk

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

List services running on Linux Mint 19

Posted on 3 December 20182 March 2019 by davidmlesk

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

Batch file rename based on timestamp

Posted on 10 October 20188 May 2019 by davidmlesk

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

What is to blame for slow boot times on Linux Mint 19.

Posted on 24 September 2018 by davidmlesk

Once you have found how long it takes for Linux Mint to Boot you can then find which programs / services are taking the longest to run by running the “systemd-analyze blame” command from a... Read More

How long does it take the pc to boot under Linux Mint 19

Posted on 22 September 201822 September 2018 by davidmlesk

How long does it take the PC to boot up, just run the “systemd-analyze time” command from a prompt to see. username@computername ~ $ systemd-analyze time Startup finished in 9.855s (kernel... Read More

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