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  • Ubuntu LTS vs non LTS releases

    Good day. As I install various versions of Ubuntu on a few virtual machines and computers and also use Debian on some as well, there is naturally an important comparison to be made between the Debian and Ubuntu release cycles. Ubuntu has stabilised on a twice yearly release cycle but the LTS releases are every…

  • New “Readjust” feature in Gimp Unified Transform (NZRM Aerial Mosaics)

    Unified Transform is a very useful capability in Gimp since about 2.10 that combines a number of transformation tools together, such as Scale, Rotate and Shear. I have used this tool extensively when creating aerial map mosaics for the NZ Rail Maps project. To create an aerial map mosaic, I start with downloading the current…

  • 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).…