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  • Welcome to the world of M.2 [2]

    Since last month writing about M.2 SSDs several have been installed in different computers. It has been found difficult to use them as a Linux boot device so regular SSDs still do these roles in computers. On an H97 board, six SATA ports went down to four when the M.2 SSD was installed, whereas on…

  • Welcome to the world of M.2

    M.2 is a standard for SSDs (Solid State Disks). As everyone knows, SSDs are starting to replace hard drives and have the advantage of much faster performance. They come in a number of different form factors and one of the first available was the same as the existing hard drives for laptops and using the…

  • Rsync Backup System [7]: Current System

    So it has proved desirable to return to making backups from a remote server connected over a network. This is currently a separate computer in our setup of computers, but we plan to integrate it into one of the existing computers (the one that is used mainly to play media) since we have determined the…

  • Rsync Backup System [6]: Latest Progress / Using The Rsync Daemon

    Because of issues with Rsync over ssh I am looking into using the Rsync daemon instead. The commentary on that is below. Until I can get that working properly I am backing up each computer individually using its own removable drive bay. This can be achieved by changing the ownership of the backup folder on…

  • Setting up sudo on Debian

    Debian is a bit different from Ubuntu and that is the reason I like it. Debian is much more focused for technically advanced people and, for example, has hibernation enabled by default, which contrasts with Ubuntu that makes it difficult to use hibernation, and there are many other differences in Debian that I prefer. One…

  • HOWTO: Set laptop screen brightness in Lubuntu

    Some laptops have function keys that can be used to adjust screen brightness. These may not be supported on all laptops, however. In that case, there may be the controls in monitor settings or power management to adjust the brightness. In my case I wasn’t able to find anything, so I discovered how to adjust…

  • Rolling back a Flatpak application to a previous version

    Today on my main graphics editing PC, I decided to update Gimp from 2.10.16 to 2.10.18. Which should have been OK. Except that it wasn’t. I have spent all day dealing with Gimp crashing during saves and trying to work around with ever smaller files to be saved. It did crash last night as well…

  • Stopping desktop notification popups on LXQt

    I see a fair bit of LXQt, whether it is on my one desktop that is running it on top of a Debian install, or my preference for laptops and virtual machines which is to install Lubuntu for fast pain-free installations, especially with non-free firmware and low resource use. Debian remains my preference for my…

  • Wireless broadband [2]

    So in my last post I wrote about Skinny 4G wireless broadband. I have had this for about 10 days and it’s been really good. I have two computers connected to it, one in each main room of the house, and using a proper computer with it instead of a limited Raspberry Pi is really…

  • Wireless broadband [1]

    For the past four years I have had the privilege of a free internet connection shared from a corporate site next door to me where I used to work. It has been and in fact still is good and I intend to keep using it. However in order to supplement it and work around some…