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  • Xubuntu issues: Graphics card not starting / network dropping out

    There are two significant issues I seem to be seeing a lot of in Xubuntu lately. Network disconnecting: I will go to load a new web page and it fails to load.  Fail to resume after hibernation: previously resume has been very reliable. The network problem is fairly new but it is difficult to pin…

  • Xubuntu Core 17.10

    Well there is going to be a Xubuntu 17.10 out soon so I decided to jump into the deep end with it and install it onto the second media computer (the one in my bedroom). To get the core edition you need the mini.iso for netboot, and while this isn’t officially available for Artful, you…

  • Avoid the Trademe courier price wizard pricing in your auction

    Not so long ago Trademe added a nifty courier pricing wizard into their listings screen. When you list an item you can use this feature to work out what it will cost to ship items by courier (it works out what options are available from different couriers and gives you a list of them). There…

  • Veon 32″ TV SRO322016

    My 22″ UA22ES5000 Samsung TV bit the bullet recently and so I managed to raise some funds to replace it with a 32″ Veon from the Warehouse at the princely cost of $269 (compared to $399 full price – $199 actually paid in a sale, for the smaller but sharper original). Whereas the Samsung had…

  • MS releases locked down Windows 10 S

    Win 10 S is the Windows 10 version of Windows RT. Windows RT was a limited version of Windows 8 designed for the ARM platform that could only run apps from the Windows Store, not full desktop applications that were hardcoded to the Win32 API in regular editions of Windows. The idea of Win 10…

  • Eyefi & FlashAir wireless SD cards for camera

    Eyefi is a technology that’s been around for a while, that combines a regular SD memory card with a wireless chipset so that images that are being recorded onto the card by the camera can be transmitted wirelessly to another device. The cards can be purchased mainly on Amazon. The technology has also been licensed…

  • Canon MILC Cameras: EOS M Series

    Canon has been slow to produce viable MILC cameras but their latest range has done a lot for their credibility in leveraging the benefits of this relatively new technology for interchangeable lens cameras. Briefly put, MILC is an abbreviation for Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera and essentially it is a DSLR without the optical viewfinder and…

  • Xubuntu 17.04, Kodi 17.1

    Well the bedroom pc (AMD E350) had to be reinstalled because it needed more disk space for storing videos etc and I had assigned the larger disk entirely to Linux (500 GB) and only left a 320 GB partition for my stuff which was almost full. I reinstalled completely with the latest release of Xubuntu…

  • More Linux utilities: Pinta, Teamviewer, Spotify

    Pinta is a basic graphics editor which is inspired by the Windows software Paint.net. It is simpler and easier to use than Gimp, and runs under Mono.  Teamviewer has a Linux client available that I have used on Xubuntu. Spotify also has a Linux client available that works well under Xubuntu. However, there are currently…

  • Capturing video in Linux / Video resizing / DVR recording

    Simple Screen Recorder is a great Linux software package that can be used to capture video from the screen. I set up my media PC to use it after connecting a second screen to use as the control screen for all applications (in other words, the application itself runs on the control screen while the…