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. …
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Elementary OS & Printing
I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
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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.
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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…
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More on Ubuntu 20
This was originally written to collect a series of tips about augmenting the build, but I have a problem with stability and reboot. Here are my notes …
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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…
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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 worked round 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. This is no longer a problem as…
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Wifi on my linux laptop
My HP Probook Wifi has stopped working. It uses Elementary OS 0.4. Loki. Here are my notes!
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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 which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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 an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…
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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.
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