NZ Tekonverse
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How to create a desktop menu entry manually in Linux
This is kind of an odd thing to be posting about nowadays with Linux desktops mostly including a menu editor or installable third party packages like menulibre and alacarte being able to achieve the same outcome. However, LXQt does not include a menu editor that is comparable to the above options, and whilst both of…
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Arlec Plug In Heater Controls [1]
Arlec is an old established Australian brand of electrical products (such as extension cords and plugboxes, timers etc) that has been available in NZ for many years – at least 40 to my recollection, their innovative designs and features continue to the present day. With plug in electric heaters sometimes certain desirable features that would…
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Using a Windows 10 computer as a media player
UPDATE 19-10-7: Due to cost the Win10PC was put into an old obsolete chassis and parked in a corner of the room so it can be used when needed but it will not sit on my desk and will hardly ever be used. This was accomplished using an identical spare G-E350 WIN8 mainboard and the…
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How to PERMANENTLY disable an input device in Linux (Xorg Display Server)
About 2 months ago I posted on how to use the xinput command (on Ubuntu and derivatives) to disable an input device. This, however, only works until the next time the computer is restarted. In addition, not all distros provide the xinput command; Debian doesn’t, and I haven’t done any research to determine whether this…
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [1]
In my last post I waxed lyrical about the merits of the Linux file system and how it is possible to have two swap partitions. Today I am setting up just that in my computer. It has an existing SSD with 100 GB available for swap, and due to an upgrade on the other computer,…
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Linux has the best filesystem ever 🙂
I’ve been in the IT industry for something like 30 years (longer if I was to include the time in my secondary education) and in that time I have used a few operating systems, starting with Apple DOS 3.3, UCSD P-System, CP/M, Acorn MOS, Macintosh System 6/7, Netware, MS-DOS, Windows (since 3.1), macOS and Linux.…
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Tamron AF 70-300 Di LD telephoto lens for Canon EF-M?
UPDATE: Since first writing this I discovered I can get the EF-EOS M adapter from Canon for $199. Although having to add this to the camera won’t really help to make adding lenses to the EOS-M affordable, it would give me the option to use the telephoto lens from my existing EOS 600D with the…
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Python Scripting [6D]: Layer Sidecar Duplication & Renaming for NZ Rail Maps 4
Since we last looked at this topic a couple of months have gone by with everything working as expected when the duplicate script is used, both for duplicating sidecar files for layers that are the same size as the original and ones where the destination layer has been increased in size. The former is the…
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Python Scripting [4D]: Exif Based Image Renaming 4
After testing the Exif renaming script for the past couple of weeks I have added a piece of code to check for collisions and rename any file that collides with an existing filename. With Exif data, the most likely cause of a filename collision is when a camera is set to shoot continuously and it…
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How to disable an input device in Lubuntu
I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop and it has one of those stick pointing devices built into the keyboard. They are just a little joystick that you can use to move the mouse except it is just a tiny little thing that fits between keys and is actually quite hard to use. Anyway this…