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  • Fix for Qgis unable to open lots of aerial images on Linux editions

    After some forethought the lovely Qgis people have come up with the issue being a limit on the number of open files. This is a deliberate security feature designed into Linux. Fortunately it is not, as was first alleged, an architectural limitation of Linux. I have used the prlimit command with –nofile to increase the…

  • Artful release date set for 19 October

    So the date for the Artful release (17.10) of Xubuntu has been set for 19 October, about eight weeks away. I have been running it on all three of my Linux computers for several months and have noticed only a few minor issues.  Mainly the issues boiled down to: In a number of cases I…

  • The joys of running development software

    Obviously I’m having a bit of fun with a GNU/Hurd VM and the Free BSD one was to see if I could get Qgis running on a different platform other than Linux. This ultimately has failed because I could not map the network share from MainPC. The Win98 VM is not running Windows 98 because…

  • Qgis map development

    So as announced on my maps blog I am working to wind the maps project up by the end of this year and I am writing a series of articles that will be published in this timeframe. They will cover the Otago Central Railway but I am working concurrently on updating several different sections of…

  • Download managers for Linux

    Well the day arrived when I needed a download manager to handle tricky downloads so here we are. After some trial and error uget which is in the standard repositories turns out to be a good gui based download manager. It can be integrated into Firefox with the FlashGot extension. I also had to install…

  • Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 edition

    Just for a bit of fun I have set up a VM running Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 edition just to see what it will do. The installer is pretty much the same as the ones that come with regular Debian and quite similar to the text mode installer for Xubuntu. Like the regular Debian installs you…

  • Xubuntu Artful

    So now I have all three computers in my household running Artful. Which everyone assumes will come out as 17.10 in a few months. The issues haven’t been too major but the latest big issue is installing it on computers like mediapc with the problem that it has with the two screens with different resolutions.…

  • Upgrading a version of Xubuntu (16.x to 17.x)

    Well I had hoped to keep my mediapc running 16.04 with Qgis 313ec55 but it tells me I should update to a new version so I have followed the procedure to update to 16.10 and then 17.04. Unfortunately it automatically uninstalled Qgis as part of this and can’t reinstall from the Xenial repository for 16.10…

  • How to stop Chrome from offering to save credit card information

    If you use Chrome you’ll hopefully know there are settings that can control the information that it stores and syncs. I always turn off the offer to sync passwords – and also credit card details. But although you can stop syncing your credit card details, Chrome will still popup a message each time you enter…

  • Xubuntu 17.10 on MainPC

    In reference to a post that I have updated a lot of times since first writing it earlier this year, I have addressed the issue of the graphics card by removing the four head card from mainpc and putting in a simple $50 two head card that is supported out of the box by nouveau.…