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What on earth did I just play?

What on earth did I just play?

Posted on 2 July 20232 July 2023 by davidmlesk
What on earth did I just play? My mind isn’t quite sure what to make of it all….... Read More
Diary of a Facebook user -- based on Diary of an AOL user

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

Posted on 30 May 202220 August 2023 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

Create Wine Prefix

Posted on 14 September 202122 August 2023 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

List services running on Linux Mint 19

Posted on 3 December 201822 August 2023 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

Batch file rename based on timestamp

Posted on 10 October 201822 August 2023 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.

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

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
Internet Exploder can go and take a flying leap.

Internet Exploder can go and take a flying leap.

Posted on 13 January 200522 August 2024 by davidandkiyomi
After stuffing around on Kiyomi’s laptop for the past two days I have finally found what was causing the problem (which was causing me to rip my hair out) and how to fix it. Having rebuilt her W... Read More

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