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  • Free Linux video editors

    Well when I rip my DVDs with a software program and the music all comes out on my computer as one file then I need to split that file into tracks and I need a simple editor to do that. Avidemux is good except for this one time where I have a file that is…

  • Lubuntu LXQT still not ready for release, but can be manually installed.

    As it will be generally known, the Lubuntu community are working towards migrating their platform to Lxqt. I have been testing a whole lot of VMs running Lxqt as a desktop environment and it looks good even if it is incomplete. I have run it on my bedroom computer using a test install but there…

  • Backup setup commands (btrfs, rdiff-backup, ssh)

    Once btrfs-tools is installed these are the commands to create a single partition volume and add a filesystem to it. First step is to wipe the existing partition table with wipefs, then use mkfs.btrfs to create the filesystem. This is the best way to create a backup disk, even if it is for more than…

  • New bits for “old” computers [12]

    The Win10PC has got itself a bluetooth keyboard now as well as the wireless mouse it already had. The Logitech K380 bluetooth keyboard works quite well and is nice and compact, it can be used with up to three devices and has a battery life up to 24 months. I had an existing Promate bluetooth…

  • New bits for “old” computers [11]

    After looking yet again (as I must have already done hundreds of times) at where I could put a fourth keyboard on the desk, I cut up a spare piece of melamine shelf and then screwed it to the desk top on the left hand side and that is where the Win10PC’s keyboard and mouse…

  • New bits for “old” computers [10]

    As I detailed recently I have changed my desk layout to allow four keyboards to be used easily and have also changed the screen layout to suit. I had four wireless keyboards to make this happen. Unfortunately the MS multimedia keyboard I use with the win10pc has gone wonky and having go slows and keys…

  • KDE vs XFCE [2]

    So I have been testing some VMs to see how things compare with different GUIs running on Linux. First tryout has been KDE running on Kubuntu. So far so good. The right click issue hasn’t gone away but drag and drop looks good. Second tryout was LXQT with Kwin running on Debian. This isn’t a…

  • KDE vs XFCE

    Whilst I have been generally happy with both Xubuntu and Debian with XFCE as the GUI, there have been a number of issues running programs under XFCE that have caused me to doubt its capabilities. Mostly these surface with Qgis because of the nature and extensive use of the software and are in three two areas:…

  • Scripts to extract audio from video clips or convert other audio formats to mp3

    This is a great thing because I can put all these MP3 clips onto my phone and play this music wherever I go. https://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/bash/ffmpeg-extract-audio-from-mkv-to-mp3 find . -type f -name “*.mkv” -exec bash -c ‘FILE=”$1″; ffmpeg -i “${FILE}” -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y “${FILE%.mkv}.mp3”;’ _ ‘{}’ ; The script goes through the current folder and all subfolders…

  • Why I hate the Google Nexus 5X

    Well when I got this thing I thought it was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, a Google Nexus phone, with stock standard Android, a lot of available updates from Google, great spec and performance etc. Great hardware, well made quality product. Such a shame about the software though. Unfortunately over time…