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Here is how to permanently get rid of the annoying box that pops up when visiting Google.com prompting to make Google your homepage. Note this is for users of Firefox. 1. Install the Stylish addon. 2. You should have a little icon for Stylish on your toolbar to the right of the location bar. If…

I am classifying this as an actual flaw, because it has been a long-term annoyance and clearly does not make sense from an ergonomic viewpoint: Many Thinkpad laptops have what is called a Thinklight which is a small but relatively bright light at the top of the bezel of the display which, when on, shines…

If you want to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming June Republican Primary election, you have to be registered as a Republican. If you are registered as a Democrat you cannot vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming primary! You can change your party affiliation online by re-registering at: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/ [Note that you do…

What Donald Trump is saying right now is revolutionary. Many younger people have grown up in an America where almost everything has always been made in China. But not when I grew up. No. Not by a long shot. When I grew up clothes, shoes, radios, televisions, dishes, cookware, utensils, toys, bedding, hardware, and many,…

Just an update for us trltetmo users: TEKXodus HYBRID N4 URv7.3 was released yesterday. Also it seems that a Marshmallow release from T-Mobile is expected soon.

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Its been nine months since the death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, and since one man running for the office of President of the United States had the guts to stand up and speak out about an issue that was deliberately avoided by politicians and the oligarchy-controlled Big Media. This was a groundbreaking moment…

There was an article at bbc.com today about acne. Acne is easy to cure. Here is how: 1. No sugar. No sugar of any kind. That means as any component of anything that is ingested. It includes rice syrup, malt syrup, glucose, sucrose, raw sugar, cane sugar, etc, etc. It means you have to read…

Just read Steven Fry’s essay Off the Grid (stephenfry.com). Just a few thoughts: I’ve been thinking lately about making a video discussing how unique it is that my life will be one of the few that has straddled the time between people having mobile devices and the use of the Internet being commonplace, to there…

This is just awesome! Install the source-highlight package (should be available for most distros including Cygwin) If you have lesspipe installed, make sure you do not have a line like this in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .profile: [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval “$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)” Be aware that by disabling the lesspipe line above you…