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  • Undocumented and stupid Samsung TV sound settings for HDMI input

    I am currently the owner of a Samsung UA22ES5000 TV which is a small (22″) TV, probably the smallest Samsung TV made. Since I purchased this TV originally, it has almost exclusively been used as a PC monitor, without connecting the internal speakers for sound. The TV has the following inputs: HDMI, VGA, component and…

  • Linux So Far [3]

    Well the household still has 3 PCs – but they are all in the same room now. The idea is that I can drive the display in the lounge off a bedroom PC using VGA over Cat5 adapters and a wireless keyboard / mouse, and this means I can cap the number of the computers…

  • Is Apple abandoning the professional creative marketplace?

    The idea that Apple might seek to abandon the professional market segment altogether having decided to focus on the consumer marketplace has gained ground with the focus of their recent product updates becoming clearer. In fact this trend has been obvious for some time with a growing range of pro/business equipment being dropped over the…

  • Linux So Far [2]

    Obviously a bugbear of any platform is that the software you want to run isn’t always available for the platform and these days it is not unusual to have several computers running multiple platforms if you are a power user. I have had to maintain at least one Windows computer since I switched to Linux,…

  • MS Smoke and Mirrors over Live Email storage

    Microsoft deliberately won’t tell you what the size limit of your Live mailbox is. They sort of imply it’s unlimited. This is a smoke and mirrors game in which they can shift the goalposts any time they like and is similar to how they very quietly announced they were chopping OneDrive storage from 15 GB…

  • Kodi Media Player on Xubuntu

    Last time I was looking at putting Kodibuntu onto a low spec computer (in this case a AMD E350 as I have a couple of those and they are not much use for anything else). I duly did install the Kodibuntu image but there was no sound on the computer when it was set up.…

  • Linux So Far

    As one would be aware, about six months ago I took my first tentative steps towards the Linux platform. Since then I have been using Linux extensively on as many of my computers as I can. I did so in the full knowledge there is something of a religious zeolotry associated with this platform, almost…

  • Browsers that work on Xubuntu

    When I started using Xubuntu it came with Firefox, but I preferred Chrome and Opera. Since then, Opera’s sync servers have been hacked, causing me to make less use of it and stop syncing data altogether. Chrome has been very good on Windows for me in the past, but seems to have a lot of…

  • More Remote Access with VNC Servers and Clients

    Last time I wrote about remote access it was to talk about RDP clients for Linux. Now it is time to have a look at using VNC, which is better supported as a server for Linux than RDP. Ubuntu comes with what is called “Desktop Sharing” which can also be installed as the vino package.…

  • Remote Access with Remmina and XFreeRDP

    In the title of this message I have listed two remote access clients: the Remmina gui based RDP software and XFreeRDP which is command line based. Right now these are the tools I am having a play with to try out different remote access systems, which in my scenario is to allow me to remote…