Month: October 2017
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Evolution and digiKam
UPDATE: Unfortunately in practice Evolution has turned out to be another poorly supported piece of open source software that is only getting minimal updates and bug fixes. It is not too much exaggeration to say its support for Imap resembles that of Outlook that it tries to emulate. As far as I can tell the…
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Facebook sucks…
As I have written before, but I think really apart from interacting with friends, Facebook is a giant experiment and not one that actually achieves a lot of good. The whole premise of Facebook is to be bigger than anyone else and to churn fantastic profits from advertising. The “social media” is about creating a…
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Digikam / Android 8 not perfect / Ditching Outlook.com email
For some strange reason this message (which only appears once in my inbox) has some magical properties that enable it to push itself to the top of the list every so often. Android 8 seems to have issues with DefaultCarrierApp which puts up a notification that won’t go away telling me I have run out…
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Upgrade MainPC (and BedroomPC) to Debian [3]
This is really just a quick followup to two of my four PCs replacing Xubuntu with Debian running Xfce desktop. It’s interesting that I tried out Debian a few times in the past and never liked it that much, maybe using the familiar Xfce desktop has helped but it is far more likely the case…
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More useful Linux software
Obviously one thing you need with an operating system platform is software that will run on it. Every platform has stuff that is produced cross-platform and stuff that is only for its platform, and we constantly have the issue that something we want to run is not available on the platform we use most of…
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Why I no longer have confidence in Flickr
Flickr used to be a great photo site. It was started in 2004 in Canada, but it didn’t stay independent for very long. Yahoo took it over in 2005, and for quite a while it looked good. It was quite distinctive from some of the other photo sharing sites, and has retained a quirkiness all…
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Upgrade mainpc to Debian 9.1 [2]
Well as usual I have decided to rush in boots and all and get Debian on this computer. Creating the pen drive for the netinstall image that I used previously to create VMs was a little tricky until I realised it had to be in FAT32 format rather than ext4. The Debian installer threw up…
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Upgrade mainpc to Debian 9.1 [1]
I wrote about this last time. Like all the other times I have upgraded this will be a multi step process because of the various things needed on the system. However none of my other computers will be changed from Xubuntu. I don’t have any real ideological reasons but I do want a system that…
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How to set a custom display resolution in Xubuntu
This is the way to mirror my pair of screens on my bedroom PC. One screen is 1360×768 (a little odd) and the other is 1680×1050. The default mirroring in XFCE will only run them both at a 4:3 resolution like 1280×1024, since this is the highest resolution they are both compatible with, even though…