Month: May 2018
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OpenID sidelined for FB/Google identity lockin
OpenID is a great concept: to help you create a single identity that works across a range of Internet sites. However, it has been falling out of favour in the past few years because both Facebook and Google have provided their own replacements for it. The reasons for these are supposedly for user convenience. However,…
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Viewnior, Manjaro, Lubuntu, LXQt
Viewnior is another image viewer that is included in most Linux distros. It is significantly better than Eye of Gnome (EOG) because it can handle very large images. As such I expect Viewnior will become the default image viewer on all of my Linux computers. I got to hear about Viewnior because I recently built…
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Canon EOS M100 evaluation of low light performance
One area of particular technical superiority of large sensor cameras (DSLRs and MILCs) is that they have a large lens which lets more light in, the result is much better low light performance than compact cameras. With this in mind I set about evaluating the low-light performance of the EOS M100 using trains as subjects.…
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Free Linux video editors
Well when I rip my DVDs with a software program and the music all comes out on my computer as one file then I need to split that file into tracks and I need a simple editor to do that. Avidemux is good except for this one time where I have a file that is…
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Lubuntu LXQT still not ready for release, but can be manually installed.
As it will be generally known, the Lubuntu community are working towards migrating their platform to Lxqt. I have been testing a whole lot of VMs running Lxqt as a desktop environment and it looks good even if it is incomplete. I have run it on my bedroom computer using a test install but there…
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Backup setup commands (btrfs, rdiff-backup, ssh)
Once btrfs-tools is installed these are the commands to create a single partition volume and add a filesystem to it. First step is to wipe the existing partition table with wipefs, then use mkfs.btrfs to create the filesystem. This is the best way to create a backup disk, even if it is for more than…