Elementary and Onedrive
This seems to have stopped working, here are my notes. I think I am using onedrive-d, but here are my notes. …
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Remote Desktop & Elementary OS
Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …
Elementary OS & Printing
I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
Upgrading Elementary OS
I needed to update my Elementary build, by quite a bit. Sadly it still needs a re-install via a USB, and so some of the notes on Installing elementary OS using a USB remains useful. I am upgrading from Freya to Loki (0.4.x) , will version 1.0 be Odin.
Installing Elementary OS using a USB
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the … Continue reading Installing Elementary OS using a USB
Back to Ubuntu
I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up … Continue reading Back to Ubuntu
Losing sight of my remote disks
I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I fixed this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. Here are my notes. …
Wifi on my linux laptop
My HP Probook Wifi has stopped working. It uses Elementary OS 0.4. Loki. Here are my notes!
Mastodon
aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes…
Linux Power Management
Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical.
Cairo Clock
I fancied a desktop clock for my elementary builds. I found cairo-clock, which has a bunch of default themes and a bunch of add-ons also. It can be obtained via the package managers; I found this, as the package documentation.
notify-send
While installing docker, I decided I needed to write some notifications to ensure the configuration works. See Docker. I started with a TCL/TK script, which these days looks a bit old school, and writing the packer was (& remains) difficult. Virtualbox reports its status on Ubuntu via a very pretty interface, prettier than Apple script … Continue reading notify-send
Gdrive & Linux
My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found this page http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/276/how-to-install-google-drive/2478#2478 and installed grive 2, looks like it needs rc files ooOOOoo It seems that googledrive integration with Linux is going to be weak for some reason, it … Continue reading Gdrive & Linux
ixquick and midori
I am playing with Elementary and have decided I want to add ixquick to Midori’s search engine list. Here’s how I did it.
Virtual Box
This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest … Continue reading Virtual Box