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  • Raspberry Pi as Livestream Player [4]… Or Conventional HTPC?

    So after recent posts talking about Raspberry Pi possibilities I am probably going to forgo using my Pi as a media player because I have pulled out an old Intel DB75EN board that used to be a desktop computer here and it plays videos very well. So that old computer can be repurposed. It needs…

  • Linux video editing, revisited

    Some way back, I don’t recall exactly, I talked about Linux video editing. When I set up mediapc the idea was that was going to be its key function. Then I ran into some roadblocks trying to find FOSS software that could do this, and just gave up and stuck with Avidemux, which can do…

  • Stopping desktop notification popups on LXQt

    I see a fair bit of LXQt, whether it is on my one desktop that is running it on top of a Debian install, or my preference for laptops and virtual machines which is to install Lubuntu for fast pain-free installations, especially with non-free firmware and low resource use. Debian remains my preference for my…

  • Using Kodi with multiple monitors is abysmal.

    Kodi is a great media player except for how it handles display settings. One of the areas that will really trip it up is when your computer has multiple monitors, especially if they have different resolutions. What I am generally seeing in my experience with multiple monitors is that Kodi’s default if it is the…

  • Rsync Backup System [5]: Ongoing Backup Journey

    Since writing the first four articles on this topic, I have not yet figured out how to implement an incremental backup strategy, and so I am still doing only the full backup every few months. Hence right now I am doing my first full backup of mainpc for three months. The first issue that has…

  • First Kubuntu computer

    So the NUC gets Kubuntu. The primary reason for wanting it on this is with the screen layout with vertical screens, wanting to have the taskbar in the middle between the two, with one taskbar for both. With a TV as the upper screen and the lower screen a smaller computer monitor turned into portrait…

  • Python Scripting: Planned Scripting Projects Update

    Back in February this year I set out a list of planned scripting projects following my acquisition of Python programming skills. The sequence of planned or implemented projects to date is: NZ Rail Maps project script to copy a set of GIS raster layer files based on reading a QLR file produced by Qgis. Currently…

  • OverGrive seems to work again…for now.

    OverGrive is a Google Drive client for Linux. It has been around for several years. I used (and licensed) an earlier version of the product, which I was forced to stop using last year because it stopped working (this quite often happens when Google updates their API to a new version which requires software changes).…

  • Rsync Backup System [4]: Linux File and Directory Security Using ACLs

    As per our series on Rsync backups, we desire to use a different user from the one that owns the home directory in order to ensure they have only the permissions they need when logging in remotely. At this point whilst by default the backup user could access many things on the computer, there were…

  • Rsync Backup System [3]: Using Rsync For Full Backup

    So last time we talked about how to set up a single disk with ZFS to use compression. Having got our backup disks sorted, the next step is to work out how to use rsync to do the actual backups. rsync is written by the same people that devised samba and is a very powerful…