Mike's Random Stuff

We stopped by an antique store in Ivor, Virginia to just browse. There on a table was this rusty Stanley No. 3 Bench Plane or smoothing plane. I had heard […]

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As an update to the Fn-Mic (Mute/Unmute Microphone) not working. I contacted the System76 support and Aaron Honeycutt pointed me in the right direction. It requires a systemd change to […]

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I decided to get a System76 Darter Pro 10. It was to replace my Thinkbook 14s which was over 5 years old. The Thinkbook had been a replacement for an […]

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So, I was bored and started playing with ArcaOS. This little trip down memory lane led to installing the current Open Watcom v2 and trying to compile my old RexxUtil […]

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This is a quick continuation of my Part 1. One of my initial issues was this: The scroll bars are always present for the Computer window every time it is […]

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My Confession … I was once an OS/2 user beginning in the mid to late 1990’s to around 2010ish. In the end I was using eComStation which, if I remember […]

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So, first item, I have been using the nightly release builds. I started with the 0.4.14 version, but I wanted to try a newer version. As a note, upgrading from […]

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Gnome 44 is in the Gentoo repository, not stable yet. The transition was not as painful as my early transition to Gnome 43. The only issue so far has been […]

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A quick one, I wanted to use gnome console with the current Nautilus. Anyway, I started with the example in nautilus-python and python (which I do not like using) and […]

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The Vortex PC66 is a retro-ish PCjr keyboard. The PCjr was sold March 1984 to May 1985 and first used a chiclet keyboard that was junk. In 1984, the PCjr […]

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