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  • Scanning with Linux [2]: Epson Perfection V200 Photo scanner on Debian

    Last time I wrote about scanning I had done the installation on mainpc. So having a new post is because of reinstalling on mediapc and a few hiccups. The main thing I am writing about is Epson now gives you the wrong download package for the Perfection V200 Photo scanner for Linux. If you search…

  • Life with KDE [6]: Clean install serverpc/mediapc

    As I was writing in my last post, I am working hard to reinstall both mediapc and serverpc from scratch. In both cases I was hoping to resolve hibernation problems. Both computers now have new Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H boards in them so the outcomes should be identical. However on resuming serverpc which has just been reinstalled…

  • Firefox Multi Account Containers vs User Profiles [3]

    After a bit of playing with a few settings I am returning to my expectation of multiple FF profiles to handle container isolation-like capabilities. The problem with containers is when you do need tracking information to be exchanged between Facebook and another site. With my WordPress blogs they are set to auto publish to a…

  • Firefox Multi Account Containers and Equivalents [2]

    OK I have managed to simplify this from yesterday. I now expect to have just single user profile in FF and do the following: Window 1 will be the one on the main screen of my PC and it will be the one that mainly I am using MACs. The MACs will be geared around…

  • Computing resources optimisation [2F]: Managing Disk Space Usage

    The completion of this computer upgrade project is close to finished. I do have to complete mounting the fourth computer, which is inching along at a glacial pace at the moment, and various small tasks. One of the important ones is that mainpc’s disks which have a total capacity of 1.8 TiB or 2 TB…

  • Raspberry Pi [4]: Raspberry Pi vs Chromecast

    I last wrote about my Raspberry Pi back in July, and since then it hasn’t been used. I decided against using it to play videos because it had some trouble playing some of the ones in my collection. At this point I went back to playback from a computer, and subsequently pc4 was used for…

  • OpenSong, Video editing, Computing resources optimisation [2E]

    OpenSong is a FOSS open source worship presentation package that is produced for Linux, Windows and macOS platforms. It was first released quite a few years ago, and is a bit out of date, with presumably no regular maintenance at present. Obviously my interest will stem from it being both FOSS and Linux capable. I…

  • Free Linux video editors [2]

    I have written a few times about video editing, in May this year I talked about a few free packages I had tried out that didn’t work. As mediapc now has more memory and a better hardware spec, I am planning to install Blender, Handbrake, Lightworks and ShotCut on it and see if those packages…

  • Computing resources optimisation [2D]

    I am going ahead with this so I have been busy over the last few days installing and removing things around the place. To date I have installed the old mediapc chassis with a new board, CPU and RAM, GA-B250M-D3H with Kaby Lake Pentium G4560, and moving all three disks across from serverpc. It was…

  • Linux video driver issues

    One of the challenges with Linux is that bug fixes can be slow to be developed and there can be issues when libraries are updated in a component of a distro in a different time cycle from other parts and therefore break software. For example, in Qgis there is a version of it that depends…