Month: August 2016
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Linux Kiosk computer with Chrome Browser [1]
Here is an option for making your own “Chromebox” out of some old PC you have lying around. It lends itself well to educational scenarios with old computers that are too slow to run a modern operating system, but which can be perfectly satisfactory for the Chrome browser to run Google Apps etc. I am…
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Linux RAID-1 [6]: Reinstalling with RAID
Well today I had to reinstall Mint on one of my computers, both of which have RAID-1 arrays. This time I installed Mint 18 onto the DB75EN. And of course I wanted to pick up my existing RAID array without having to build it from scratch. Initially I was going to build a test system…
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Minties
After much thought I decided the “second” computer (which is actually the newest and therefore fastest) will be used for the maps that I draw and the “first” computer (older) is the one I use for my study and some work as well. So the second computer now has the quad head video card and…