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Graphics issues with map mosaics [1]
Well this is a tricky little number for people like me who are doing things with high resolution images. I am frequently combining high resolution scanned Retrolens stuff with other aerial images and running into some scaling issues. Basically if I have got a Retrolens image at a certain resolution and I have the aerial…
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Limits.conf settings to allow a lot of file handles
One of the things I always have to remember to do for Qgis is for each time I install a computer or VM is to change the default settings in /etc/security/limits.conf to allow a larger number of file handles. Otherwise Qgis can’t open a lot of layers at once. Open this file and put the…
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Setting a custom content width on Blogger’s Simple template
Most of my Blogger blogs use the Simple template; I haven’t got much time or inclination to scroll through masses of templates and experiment. You can use the theme designer or you can directly edit the HTML to change some settings. On some of my blogs I have directly edited the HTML to set a…
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Apps, apps, apps
I don’t write much about mobile so it’s time to fill in this gap by blogging about some of the apps I have on my various phones. The main phone I have is a Nexus 5X, and I have a second phone, a Galaxy J2, which has a tablet share SIM (off the Nexus’ account)…
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HOWTO: Enable root login in KDE / Debian
UPDATE: Since I discovered Ctrl-Alt-F1 and found I could root login there and have no problems, I have not bothered modifying any KDE computer to enable the root login. Last time I wrote that I needed to try a new user profile on serverpc because of issues resuming from hibernation. This has proved to be…
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Fun with Buster / KDE over XFCE on Stretch
It’s one thing to be able to install an alpha edition of Debian and it’s another for it to be usable. But that’s part of the whole process for an alpha edition of something. But because running a Debian alpha is so much of a challenge, I can’t do it with a rotated screen like…
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Life with KDE [5]: Install on Debian over XFCE
So I haven’t written too much on this blog for a couple of weeks. Now I am writing about KDE because I have decided which computers will have it and which won’t. serverpc gets it installed because it is fast and has 16 GB of memory, and mediapc will be the one that doesn’t because…
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HOWTO: Change application font sizes in XFCE
Since I am going to have to keep at least one of my computers running XFCE (it doesn’t need remote access) because MTP works better on Debian 9.5/XFCE for now, I needed to look at how to set menu and application font sizes. There is actually not a GUI to do this. There was not…
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Life with KDE [4]
There have been a few small hiccups in a couple of areas with KDE so far. One is the MTP support appears to be not as good as on Thunar (XFCE). I have not been able to get a reliable connection to my Samsung Galaxy J2 phone. As a result I have put a cable…
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Life with KDE [3]
Since writing about the NUC’s problems installing Debian and Kubuntu in UEFI mode, I discovered the computer has a legacy boot setting which is essentially BIOS boot so with that turned on and UEFI turned on there was no installation problem. Kubuntu was installed successfully first, then I overwrote the installation with Debian-KDE and then…
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