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