Category Archives: Computers and Internet

ChatGPT cheat sheet

From Neural Magic… https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOfN0iB_A0rEGYc2CbYnpIF44FupQn2I/view

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Apple System Status Web Page

Never needed this until today: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

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Virtual Apple Macintosh Running System 8

Running this on an iMac Pro is very conflicting… Scroll down for one click installers. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

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Flushing DNS cache on MacOS Mojave

Something I need to do every now and then.  Open a terminal, paste the command below and hit enter.  You’ll need to enter your administrator password. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; sleep 2; Once control returns, you’re all set.

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Facebook uses 2 factor authentication phone numbers for marketing

There really is no bottom to how low these advertising companies will go.  

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Downloading Google Hangouts Chat for a desktop

This is just impossible to find, but super obvious once you do.  Of all ‘people’, you’d think Google would be able to find their own product.

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Adjusting mouse scroll wheel speed in Linux Mint

I occasionally install and mess around with different flavors of Linux. Linux Mint is a very interesting one, but something that made it darn near impossible to use was the crazy high scrolling rate when using a mouse wheel. This link has a solution. One thing to note – after you download the .sh file, […]

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Firmware update for Surface Dock

This isn’t something you usually hear about. In fact, this is the first dock where I’ve found that there is a firmware update. If you have a Surface Dock, and are having occasional problems with it, I’d suggest following the link below and installing the Microsoft Surface Dock Updater and then use it to update […]

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Mac, diagnose thyself!

Over the past few years, our household has turned from a Microsoft Windows centric one, to one that is populated almost entirely by Apple Mac’s, along with iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs. While over the years, the Macs have proved resilient reliable machines, our experience has not been without problems. The only one that has […]

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Some thoughts on the Kindle Fire

I’ve had the Kindle Fire for over a week now and so far it’s been an interesting experience. There have been plenty of reviews that do a much better job than I’m willing to do reviewing all of the gory details (take a look at ArsTechnica’s review for a complete run down), but I do […]

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