Posts for: #Technology

Fixing OpenBSD Touchpad Palm Rejection Issues

Toggling the Touchpad in OpenBSD on Lenovo X250 to Address Palm Rejection Issues.

So, one of the challenges I encountered with OpenBSD is that the touchpad does a really bad job of rejecting motion from my palm. While writing in Emacs I’d often find my mouse jumping around and my writing not where I expected it to be.

After some digging around I found a solution:

How to setup OpenBSD in i3 to toggle touchpad

Create a file in ~/home/bin/ called “toggle-touchpad.sh”

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Why I’m Leaving Youtube Behind

I have watched Youtube videos for many, many years. Not only that, I actually created a Youtube channel and created videos for a while. Recently, though, I’ve begun to reassess my relationship with Youtube.

Youtube can be a great source for learning. Just about anything you want to learn you can learn on Youtube. There are, in fact, entire courses available to teach you anything from philosophy, to math, languages, and, of course, a metric ton (or two) of courses on technology. I love that I can learn what I need to learn using Youtube.

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Revisiting WordStar

Revisiting WordStar

A day or so ago I ran across an article where science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer had released his version of WordStar 7.0 for DOS, noting that it is now abandonware and, thus, he felt comfortable releasing it into the wild. What was interesting was that, as he noted, not only he, but several other quite successful writers had developed quite an affinity for the ancient software that ran on a long outdated operating system.

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PlainText Preferences

PlainText Preferences

Over the last ten years there have been a couple of preferences that have driven many of my technology decisions. One is a preference for using plain text rather than proprietary software. The other is a preference for flat files over databases.

Let’s Talk about Plain Text

My move toward plain text came about for several reasons.

First, I just wanted to take notes that I could quickly create and reference as needed.

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My Technology

My Technology

A common discussion in any of the technology forums is which platform is better. Some argue that Windows is best, others that Mac is and others, still, argue that Linux beats them all. What is my take? Well… it depends.

###I am Operating System Agnostic

Truly, I am. I have all three operating systems in use in my home as I write this.

I started my technology back in 1984 or 1985 with a Commodore 128. It didn’t take long at all to capture my imagination and soon I was doing some Basic programming, playing games, writing papers, etc all on that little computer. I’m not sure my wife was all that impressed. But, boy, I sure was!

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