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The Birthday Boy!

Here he is with his older brother keeping watch over him.

Place to put tips and tricks regarding the emacs extensible editor.

Regex Searching

To collect strings matching a pattern in a text file:

C-u M-s o

Open in '-mode' automatically

To have emacs open in a specific mode for a specific file, you can prepend

;; -*- mode: Org; -*-

at the top of the file, in this case the file will open in 'org-mode'

BIOS short-cut keys

The most common BIOS shortcut keys are:

• F1
• F2
• F10
• F12
• DEL
• ESC
• bertec

Complete List of BIOS Access Keys for Motherboards

Abit

Press the DEL key to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

ASRock

Press the F2 key to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

Windows 10 Repair UEFI Boot Partition

Start a command prompt and run:

diskpart

In 'diskpart' run

list disk

Select the disk with Windows installed (if there is one hard disk in the system, its index should be 0):
sel disk 0

Display the list of partitions and volumes on the disk:
list partition
list volume

Usually the UEFI partition will be the hidden 100MB FAT32 partition

Then you can assign a letter to the volume by running:

String Names

String names are one of the first things you'll learn when learning to play the guitar.

The nemonic 'Eddy ate dynamite, good bye Eddy' is one way to remember the string names which are ' E A D G B e', in that order, from the top down, with the last e being a 'high e'. They are numbered 6,5,4,3,2,1 from top down.

Chord Practice

Learn and practice these 8 chords daily: Em, Am, C, D, G, E, A, Dm.