I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
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Raspberry Pi III
My third attempt to build a raspberry pi, it seemed easier to start a third page than refactor the last one. Here are my notes. I turned it off in August 22, and back on in Nov 2022. …
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About Porteus, yanf Linux
It’s meant to be small and fast, but I want to run it as a virtual box guest. I have suspended this project, but here are my notes.
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Elive (YANF LInux)
I was looking for a small and fast Linux, and chose to experiment with Elive. Here are my notes.
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Ubuntu on AWS
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos.
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Scuttle and tagging
Having found my old delicious list, I thought I might see how useful it remains. The tags are not visible and so I would need a tool and my mind turned to Scuttle, which I have used before. As ever, here are some notes …
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Raspberry Pi and LVM
My NAS Box Fan has failed, I need to decide to repair or replace. One obvious answer is to use my “Pi” to serve out a pair of mirrored USB connected disks. How to do that on a PI? Here are my notes which I never implemented; basically I am using one of the cloud…
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Silverlight
Some stuff still need it, I want to try it on Linux. Here are my notes.
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Raspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is Buster and so much of this content is deprecated. I amended this in Dec 2025 and in April 2020. I have moved deprecated content to the comments and updated…
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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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N3200pro and SMB v1 (Deprecated)
This page is now deprecated; the box has been gone for a while. I am and was impressed with its longevity, I have no idea how long I’ll keep it on the site; it might be useful to some.
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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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Systemd (ptui)
Originally written in 2017. I said, “It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving”. I had another look in 2025, added some links as this time I wanted to move some job commands from cron to systemd i.e. run the programs/scripts periodically. Here…
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Fedora 24
This is quite different, in particular the System V init files don’t work any more and so I need to implement a systemd solution to mount the virtual box shared folders. I think these need to run after the vboxaddclient service. Some documentation suggests that LSB compliant scripts will work. I am about to stop…
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Raspberry Pi (Deprecated)
I bought a Raspberry Pi to act as a Media Server in the home. I bought a PI, case, SD card and power source. As ever here are my notes. Currently, getting started (or 1st boot), 1st customisations, and early days with the media browsers and XBMC/Kodi. I have BBC, ITV and YouTube working, Channel…
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