Laptop Running Smoothly Now

Since moving to the place where I have been living since
Aug. 2014 I have had a couple of issues with my Lenovo brand laptop running Linux Fedora OS.

1. Google Chrome after a while would slow to a crawl and that would sometimes hang the laptop and make it practically unusable for anything else besides web browsing.
2. Lenovo brand laptop would, after about 3 or 3.5 days, suddenly lockup and would auto reboot or require me to press the Reset button for a hard reboot.

Late last year I bought an additional 2 Gigabytes of RAM. Laptop now has a capacity of 4 Gigabytes. This fixed the problem with Google Chrome and I use Chrome pretty well exclusively now.

At the same time  that I got the additional RAM, I got te computer store to do a general internal cleaning of the innards. That didn't fix the rebooting. I thought maybe it's just heating up inside because it contains a Dual Core CPU. But that wasn't it either.

Recently when I was in the Hosp. the laptop ran for a total of 7 days there, and then another 7 days...without a single reboot. 14 days total.

And that was also the time when my housemate was also in the Hosp. (separate one).

So what I concluded was that the laptop would only reboot when my housemate used his laptop at the same time as mine.

The answer was to replace the plain power bar with one of those that "conditions" the AC output from the wall and "cleans" the power so that the laptop has as good electricity as possible.

This AC line conditioner, which looks the same as a power bar, except that it also accepts coax and telephone (RJ11) inputs, also features an indicator for "Grounded". This light was not ON when plugged into the wall outlet.

So putting that in there has basically made my laptop run flawlessly for the past 8 days and counting.

Trevor Eissler "Montessori Madness!" - 321 FastDraw

Radio s Future requires Innovation

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Lenore Skenazy "All Fear All the Time"

How To Evoke Spirits To Physical Appearance - Full Seminar

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Temporary fix for dispcalGUI ICC profile install

dispwin LP154W02-TL06\ 2015-09-02\ 86cdm²\ D5000\ 2.2\ F-S\ 3xCurve+MTX.icc

A web page that I found says to do this and to create a shell script to execute dispwin (part of Argyll) with the name of the .icc profile you want to use.

Transcona Detailed Area Plan

Author: Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg
Publ. Date: 1971
Size: 831 K

Detailed Area Plan - Transcona

CNN HeadlineNEWS 1989 CGI How To

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_y85iLGWY

Finding Supportive Men's Groups

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/is-machismo-the-cause-of-the-male-suicide-emergency/

Fear. Freedom. Government.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. 

Thomas Jefferson

Children's Rights

I believe in children's rights.

I believe that each kid has the right to:

* A warm, safe from the elements home

* Enough healthy food daily.

* No abuse of any kind - no physical, verbal, sexual * A family that wants him

* The right to be himself and the age that he wants to be.

* The right to clean, fashionable clothes daily.

* The right to be taught and practise good hygiene.

Dallas Hansen to Brian Bowman: Get Aboard Subway Rapid Transit

Given WT's recent issues with bus troubles and that the 2nd phase of (Bus) "Rapid" Transit is in danger of making commuting take longer due to the "dogleg" route through the Parker Lands in Fort Garry...

I'm linking to Dallas Hansen's wonderfully-written open letter to then newly elected mayor of Winnipeg Brian Bowman.

Bill Menzies, who is/was (is he retired?) WT's Planner, would say that they wouldn't need to increase the size of the bus fleet with BRT (as compared to rail) because the buses would get to their destinations faster and could turn back the other direction sooner.

What Menzies failed to take into account was that the metro area's population is increasing, mainly from non-white 3rd world countries.

There is not enough transit capacity as it is, whether we had BRT, LRT, or a subway. Or just stayed the course and did nothing.

So it's up to the decision makers at City Hall to "grab the bull by the horns", show some leadership, get rid of (fire) the people who need to be fired and start to rebuild and grow our Transit system the way a big city is supposed to do.

That means putting aside BRT and installing subway rail instead, like Dallas so eloquently said in his piece, linked below.

http://dallashansen.com/wp/?p=532

Why No Fort Garry BIZ Group?

The Fort Garry Detailed Area Plan, written by the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg in 1970 said of the northernmost part of the RM of Fort Garry:

The “Norwich Plan”, which has been successful in some Canadian locations, for example, Niagara Falls, Victoria and Oakville, is a co­operative venture of local businessmen, local community organizations, and local government agencies to improve the appearance of a given street or streets in a community. The essence of the Plan is that it can be adapted to any locality as it is a proposal for improving the general appearance of a particular area in a city, without major alteration or expense, yet providing a dis­tinctive atmosphere to the area. The success of the idea depends on the co­operation of the majority of the business people and local government in the area. Where such a plan has been implemented, the area concerned has experienced an improvement in busi­ness, become a tourist attraction, and has re­awakened a spirit of community pride. The suggestion is made that the use of the Norwich concept by local businessmen and the Municipality may be suitable as a means of improving the appearance of the commer­cial areas.

 So why would Fort Garry businesses not want to create a BIZ group which can help in beautifying the area, creating a community identity, in the absence of a real autonomous city for that area?

There area already successful BIZ groups in metro Winipeg, that have created this community feel along commercial streets, namely the Old St. Vital BIZ, the St. James Village BIZ, the Transcona BIZ, and the Norwood Grove BIZ.

I don't own a business in Winnipeg. I'm just here to create awareness. Awareness of the need for a proper mass transit system here. Awareness of geoengineering/chemtrails going on, etc...

So it's up to the local businesses of the Beaumont, Wildwood, and McGillivray Local Planning Areas to come together and create the Fort Garry Business Improvement Zone.

The domain would be:

fortgarrybiz.com

CKND Manitoba Tonight ca. 1982

A year or two ago I spotted an old CKND-TV clip from 1982 of their local news programme, Manitoba Tonight, which aired between 10:30 pm and 12 midnight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inc5tXXWbZA

Sorry, I didn't have a VCR till '87. But that's another story altogether.

Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to exit a bad X session

In X Window System in fvwm, Motif, CDE, etc...you're able to exit out of a corrupt, hung, disk thrashing session just by pressing the key sequence:

Ctrl-Alt-Bksp

This is a very cool feature and saves one from having to do a complete reboot. Using this key combo. takes you back to the GDM login scrreen.

To add this feature, use the Gnome Tweak Tool and in the Typing tab, select the option Key Sequence to Kill the X Server, like so:

DONE.

Questions at Parker Lands BRT Hearing

https://youtu.be/Kp40NsAHyPQ

 

http://citycircus.ca/transit-official-claims-if-brt-part-of-marion-freeway-plan-public-engagement-will-follow-successful-parker-lands-brt-model/

For decades (since 1973) the Plan for BRT (or LRT) was to use Markham as the point at which the line would veer off to and from the University of Manitoba.

Except now we hear that it was interference meddling with Shindico and Katz and the University of Manitoba itself that lead to another, smaller road being chosen instead.

Pambrun's an idiot.

"CompuVision" computer store display CED videodisc (1984)

Telephone Documentaries

Youtube - AT&T Tech Channel

Youtube - British Telecom (BT) Let's Talk

Winnipeg Area Travel Survey (2007)

I've been looking for some data on the traffic volumes experienced between Winnipeg and Selkirk and I think I've found something relevant.

The Winnipeg Area Travel Survey of 2007 was conducted by iTrans Consulting (now HDR Inc.) of Ottawa.

The two areas of interest to me are labelled [1]:

External District #23 - East St. Paul & West St. Paul, and

External District #27 - 'North Northeast' and includes Selkirk, Winnipeg Beach, Grand Marais, and St. Andrews.

They surveyed over 366 households[2] in 'North Northeast' who regularly commute to/from this area.

For External District #23, the report has a combined population of 13,230, contains 4,390 households, and of that 8,760 active commuters using a total of 10,480 vehicles.[3]

For External District #27, the report has a combined population of 33,200, contains 12,650 households, and of that 12,700 active commuters using a total of 24,910 vehicles.[4]

When the figure for Active Commuters in External Districts #23 and #27 are combined, it totals 21,400 vehicles daily.

While installing commuter rail line between Winnipeg and Selkirk areas might encourage more people to live beyond the Perimeter Hwy., it is inevitable that growth in the Winnipeg Capital Region will create this anyways.

A diesel (DMU) commuter train can carry 50-300 passengers at once compared to one diesel bus of 50 passengers.

A Diesel Multiple Unit train provides a much smoother ride for passengers because the train glides along smooth track, rather than having to ride along poor quality asphalt roadway.

A DMU train can be kept outdoors and does not require any indoor heating, unlike a bus that needs to be kept warm in the Winter.

[1] "2007 Winnipeg Area Travel Survey Results - Final Report", iTrans Consulting Inc., pg. 7
[2] Ibid. pg. 6
[3] Ibid. pg. 80
[4] Ibid. pg. 88

The Winnipeg Capital Region - List of RMs

1.  RM of East St. Paul - Birds Hill, North Hill, River East Estates
   
2. RM of Headingley
   
3. RM of Macdonald - Brunkild, Domain, LaSalle, Oak Bluff, Sanford, Starbuck
   
4. RM of Ritchot - Glenlea, Grande Pointe, Ile-des-Chenes, St. Adolphe, Ste. Agathe
   
5. RM of Rosser - Rosser, Marquette, Meadows, Gross Isle, Little Mountain Park, Gordon, Lillyfield
   
6. RM of St. Andrews - Clandeboye, Petersfield, Lockport (W of the Red River)
   
7. RM of St. Clements - Beaconia, East Selkirk, Grand Marais, Libau, Lockport, Thalberg
   
8. RM of St. François Xavier
   
9. RM of Springfield - Oakbank, Dugald, Anola, Cooks Creek Hazelridge, Glass
   
10. RM of Tache- Dufresne, Landmark, Lorette, Rosewood, Ross, Ste-Genevieve
    
11. RM of West St. Paul -Middlechurch, Rivercrest