Monthly Archives: December 2014

Year End Worthless Trivia…

I read this on BBCNews.com on December 30 which the BBC found in the Daily Mirror: Dead passengers on British Airways flights used to be given sunglasses, a vodka and tonic and a copy of the Daily Mail to disguise them from … Continue reading

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Issue with VMware Workstation 10.0.4 and Missing Menus

Just in case someone else has the issue of the menus not showing up in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and VMware Workstation 10.0.4. Simple problem: The only menu item that shows up is File. The rest are there if you click … Continue reading

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I Think I Solved My Trackpad Issue..

Seems that digging a little further that my problem may be solved by enabling the “Disable touchpad while typing” option. Hopefully it works!

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New Laptop

After over four years my Dell XPS 15 laptop (L501X) had gotten a little long in the tooth. The video card – an nVidia GT350M – is only slightly faster, by the narrowest of margins, than the Intel® HD Graphics 4400 … Continue reading

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How Large IS Large

I found this article on Gizmodo while eating lunch about The World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Carrying Over 17,000 Crates, NBD. These are the Maersk Triple E class. Now this is is large however one commenter puts the maximum capacity of 18,270 TEU (twenty-foot … Continue reading

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