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You can just see the top of Denali from the top of the maintained Mt. Healy Overlook Trail that sets off from the Murie Science Center, at Denali NP. (2018-12-01)
netctl configuration for eduroam at University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2019-01-05):
Description='eduroam'
Interface=wlp3s0
Connection=wireless
IP=dhcp
ESSID=eduroam
Security=wpa-configsection
WPAConfigSection=(
'ssid="eduroam"'
'scan_ssid=1'
'key_mgmt=WPA-EAP'
'eap=PEAP'
'identity="foobar@alaska.edu"'
'password="xxxxxxxx"'
)
The new Linux kernel 5.0+ causes intermittent, temporary GPU freezes (or hangs) for up to 5 seconds, on my Lenovo ThinkPad x270, running Openbox & Xorg on Arch Linux. I couldn’t find any online posts about this. I’ve since downgraded to kernel 4.20 and all is fine. Not sure when I’ll try to upgrade the kernel again... (2019-06-03)
In skypeforlinux, you can activate the developer/debug mode with
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + D.
Using an (old) USB Apple SuperDrive on Linux. Thanks to this post. Wake the drive up with:
sg_raw /dev/sr0 EA 00 00 00 00 00 01
Use eject to eject the disk.
To trigger voicemail (e.g., *95 for ACS) using a rotary phone (which
does not have * or #), just record the
Dual Tone Multi Frequency tones
on a voice recorder, along with the PIN and #, and play it back into
the mouthpiece microphone.