Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux
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KDE remote desktop sharing
One of the best things about KDE is the amount of apps they have available that are integrated into the shell. As XFCE lacks its own remote access integration you have to install x11vnc and muck around trying to get it to run as a service which I have yet to be able to complete.…
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Computing resources optimisation [6]
Well computer no.4 is not going to be “ministrypc”, it is going to be a computer for displaying pictures on with the maps project. I just decided this is the best way to do things, because its screen resolution of 1600×900 is higher than mediapc. But also, because I want to keep mediapc just for…
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HOWTO: Share a screen in Linux
Screen sharing is a generic name for allowing the screen on one computer to be accessed from another. It is similar to, but different from, Windows Remote Desktop. There are a number of options that are mostly based on VNC. I have a Windows 10 Home computer here that has TightVNC Server installed on it,…
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HOWTO: Add extra display settings permanently to Linux
I have a Veon TV that I use as a display for the bedroom pc and its major problem is that it is detected as a resolution of 1920×1080 but its native resolution is actually 1360×768. With other computers the instructions I dug up were to use xrandr commands in some of the lightdm config…
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HOWTO: Connect a Nexus 5X to a PC
Previously on this blog I have bemoaned the apparent lack of support for the Nexus 5X on PCs. It turns out however that the connectivity is not well documented (not as far as I am aware with Android 8). Earlier efforts failed because I thought a driver was needed, of which no such thing actually…
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Computing resources optimisation [1D]
Well a few posts back “pc4” was being set up with Debian 10 (buster) as an evaluation computer and that was purely for that purpose and it had my media collection installed in order to evaluate it as a media player. But it does struggle to achieve that role because the hardware is too old…
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General update
Since last time I have been doing a lot of setup stuff with various computers. Win10PC is gradually getting set up, the only stuff I really need it for is a handful of things like downloading gigabytes of maps or whatever, scanning, ripping DVDs and bulk Irfanview stuff so it isn’t moving along very fast…
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Windows sucks part 139 [2]
So I am changing my Windows 10 box from being inside a desktop chassis into the Antec Mini-ITX chassis with a Gigabyte GA-E350 WIN8 mainboard and as I have no real need of this computer chassis for any other purpose for the foreseeable future this is going back to being what the Windows 10 computer…
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Windows sucks part 139
Well I have written numerous times about how bad Windows is but Microsoft just keeps on proving me correct over and over. Windows 10 is probably the worst version of Windows ever released, and that’s even without taking into account MS trying to force everyone to convert to it. I didn’t get my edition of…
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NFS on Linux
When it comes to file sharing on Linux, you have two main choices. NFS is the one that is intrinsic to Unix environments, that have been carried down into Linux by convention. It has been around for a long time and is quite stable and reliable. Since the development of Samba, you also have SMB…