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   * [[Links]] - links to other sites.
   * [[Windangel]] - Our sailing adventures
+====== Introduction ======
+My name is Jim Lynch.  I used to have a consulting company in GA and had developed this site to support it.  In the 2008 panic I lost all my customers and have never succeeded in getting any new ones so I've turned this site into a place that I keep a number of programming hints.  I am an engineer by education but spent the most part of my career working in the computer industry providing primarily programming support and project management. I retired in 2005 and spend a lot of time working on programming projects related to Linux, small computers (Pi's and the like), micro controllers (Arduino's and clones) and micro computers (ESP8266, ESP32, etc).
+I have a 3D printer which I use to build various bits like containers for some of my small computer projects.  I design my prints using the open source CAD program, Openscad.  It appeals to my engineering background better than the more artistic cad programs like Blender and Fusion3D.
+I'm also an amateur radio operator.  I don't operate as much as I used to but still keep a finger on the key so to speak.
 ====== Touchpad ======
 Use
-<code>
+<Code>
 synclient TouchpadOff=1
-</code>
+</Code>
 To turn the bloody touchpad off on laptop.
+If that doesn't work, here's a script that works on my Dell Inspirion 11 3000 Series running Linux Mint Mate 20.
+<Code>
+#!/bin/bash
+x=`xinput list | grep Synaptics|awk '{ $1=""; $2=""; $3="";$4="";$6="";$7="";$8=""; print}' | awk -F'=' '{$1="";print}' | xargs`
+xinput set-prop ${x} 164 0 # '"Device Enabled"'
+</Code>
+xinput list will give you a list of devices you can control.  In my case the Synaptics device is the one I wanted to disable.  The command that I originally used was "xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0" but I couldn't figure out how to script that so I used the xinput "list-props 12" to discover the equivalent numeric value.
 ====== Bind ======
 Before using chroot from a live CD to fix a system, use:
 <code>
- mount -o bind /proc /mnt//proc/
+ mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc/
  mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev/
  mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
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 </code>
 <code>
-        <script src="js/date.js"></script>
+    <script src="js/date.js"></script>
 </code>