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To: Greg from Edmonton who wrote (444)6/29/2015 2:35:23 AM
From: FJB
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It's pretty trivial to run Windows inside Virtual Box if you want...

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To: Greg from Edmonton who wrote (444)6/29/2015 3:16:11 PM
From: Thomas A Watson
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There are a few programs I use that are windows only. My goal is to work out using linux host OS and then run windows virtual machines to run the few windows programs I still need.

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From: FJB3/7/2016 9:23:51 PM
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Announcing SQL Server on Linux

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From: Thomas A Watson2/18/2017 1:37:06 PM
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Linux Cheat Sheet. I found this Linux Cheat Cheat of commands VERY GOOD

tuxarena.com /intro/cheatsheet.html

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (448)2/19/2017 1:26:24 PM
From: FJB
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (448)4/29/2017 12:15:48 PM
From: FJB
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CoreFreq is a CPU monitoring software designed for 64-bits Processors w/ architectures Intel Atom, Core2, Nehalem, SandyBridge and superior, AMD Family 0F


https://github.com/cyring/CoreFreq


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To: FJB who wrote (450)5/1/2017 8:20:12 AM
From: Greg from Edmonton
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HTOP is what I generally use.

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (448)5/12/2017 3:13:31 PM
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From: FJB7/4/2017 1:20:14 PM
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From: Thomas A Watson11/10/2018 11:58:42 AM
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where is the mouse on your screen?
In a terminal run mousepos using xdotool

need xdotool installed

sudo apt-get install xdotool

or

watson@xen2[109]xterm -geometry 50x12 -e mousepos

watson@xen2[105]which mousepos
/usr/local/bin/mousepos

watson@xen2[106]
watson@xen2[106]cat `which mousepos`
#!/bin/csh
# /usr/local/bin/mousepos
set c=0
set last=99

while ( 1 )

xdotool getmouselocation --shell >ztmp
sleep .5s

# cat ztmp
set x=`cat ztmp|head -1`
set y=`cat ztmp|head -2|tail -1`
set screen=`cat ztmp|tail -2|head -1`
set window=`cat ztmp|tail -1`

echo $x $y" "$c" " $screen $window
echo ""

if ( $c < $last ) then
@ c++
else
set c=0
endif
end

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