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Tag: Linux
Steam Not Working on Linux Mint / MATE 17.3 64-bit
Steam Not Working on Linux Mint / MATE 17.3 64-bit. libGL error r600_dri.so, swrast_dri.so
GRUB Re-Install after Windows
Fix for the various instances in which the GRUB boot loader on a multi-boot system gets trashed, by way of example but not by way of limitation, when installing Windows. A different process that inspired these steps I found here http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245. Being a basic old, grouchy, lazy IT guy, I did it this way instead. Notes…
Emailing yourself your nightly maintenance logs
I run a nightly maintenance job on the computers in my lab to virus scan their Microsoft partitions and be sure their Linux partition is updated. I want the log files emailed to myself for review the next day. I found a simple command line program that is in the Ubuntu / MINT repository and solves all this without need for any configuring. Five minutes work, tops. Tells you if the mail was sent successfully or not.
ALC Maker’s Space is coming
Abundant Life Church is starting a new thing called Groups which will each be on a secular topic of interest to those who participate, and will meet in lieu of the traditional Wednesday evening Bible Study service. (Typical groups last time were Finances, Cropping for Christ, & Shooting and Firearm Safety. My church is kinda crazy…