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There was an odd issue occurring with the default Lenovo UltraNav driver for my Thinkpad X1 Carbon (1st gen) in which it would seem like click presses would not register. I would often have to click on something twice. It got really annoying and a web search led to a forum post where someone recommended…

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One exceptionally cool thing about Debian is that you can run the following command: sudo apt-get install iamerican-insane What does that get you? It gets you the iamerican-insane word list, which is described in the package meta info as the following: Description-en: American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane containing…

I would like to mention a little utility for Windows that is indispensable. It is called Ditto and basically it just runs in the system tray and tracks everything that enters the Windows clipboard. Have you ever copied and pasted something, only later to need to re-paste it and find that it was no longer…

One annoyance that had been occurring on one of my Windows 8.1 systems was that, upon booting up, there would always appear this annoying message in the system tray saying that “Windows could not reconnect all network drives”. The solution involves the following: 1. Open Group Policy Editor (press Win key and type “group policy”),…

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The points below are identical to every other developed nation in the world. While I avidly support immigration, I do not support unchecked illegal immigration which takes jobs and resources from American citizens. 1. Children born to illegal immigrant parents are not US citizens. 2. Illegal immigrants are allowed to vote in any election in…

This was in the news recently: Illegal immigration: Minister pledges crackdown on ‘rogue employers’ Businesses that employ illegal workers will be hit with “the full force of government machinery”, immigration minister James Brokenshire has warned. He said “rogue employers” who give work to illegal migrants were denying UK citizens jobs, driving down wages and gaining…

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This has been going around on the ‘Net the past few days. It has been found that Windows 10 uploads data to its servers even when every “feature” and app that normally might be expected to do that is disabled/uninstalled. For example, even if you don’t use the Cortana voice-command feature or Bing search, stuff…