20 August 2016
Adding an old Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c on Linux
Brought back an old Dell 1320c Color laser. First had to find how to hook it up on Windows 10, then Linux.
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13 April 2016
Success with touch and pen on Lenovo X1 Yoga (2016)
Found the solution, and it should be moving into the next kernel (see my post here):
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15 February 2016
The joys of Linux kernels, distros, and Google Chrome
One tends to think of something like a web browser being very much disconnected from the intricacies of Linux kernels. But Google Chrome regularly tries to interface in very deep ways, either with the kernel or the X11 graphical system. One recent example is:
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4 November 2015
Making Crashplan work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in 2015
It’s always nice to have a LTS version, but sometimes, software does lag behind. To wit, I noticed some complaints about failure to update in Crashplan (well, the failed updates filled up the filesystem…): it needed Java > 7, which of course wasn’t available.
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1 November 2015
Benchmarking old systems
Gearing up to soon buy a new laptop – taking stock of old ones still hanging around the house:
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24 May 2015
Convert AVCHD to MP4
I often have run into the problem that Linux can directly read the MTS files, but Windows and Mac can only read them within the original file structure. There may be a good reason for that, but I don’t see it.
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30 September 2011
First week experience with Fedora 15
Not quite as smooth as openSUSE as a desktop experience. Many things just work on SUSE – just not the touch screen – scanner, printer, etc. are all easier to configure (or so it seems for a Fedora but not Gnome newbie). Both SUSE and Ubuntu have done MUCH more integration (by default anyway) of desktop configuration settings.
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21 September 2011
Momentous change: laptop goes from openSUSE 11.4 to Fedora 15
After 12 (?) years of running laptops with (open){SUSE,SuSE}, I’ve left that distro for Fedora 15. Why? Lenovo X220t touch screen didn’t work even with a couple of hours of fiddling with openSUSE 11.4, and then found a post (lost the URL) of folks noting that Fedora 15Â worked just fine for them. (trick: install xorg-x11-wacom-devel).Bonus: it is better in sync with our current research environment, which was running openSUSE (and some SLES) when self-managed, but now is managed by CAC, and runs RHEL or CentOS-based ROCKS. So the laptop being on a Redhat-compatible system helps, too.
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28 March 2011
WD MyBook 3TB on Linux – partitioning problems -solved
Bought a WD MyBook 3TB (USB 3.0) drive. Didn’t want to format correctly in Linux (I blew away the Windows VCD partition).
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