Month: August 2017
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…