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RPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
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ESSENTIAL UBUNTU MATE TWEAKS AND CONFIGURATIONS Step 2: Themes and icons. Ubuntu MATE has several components that let you control the look & feel of the desktop. MATE Tweak governs the full desktop. You also need Control Center > Appearance, and here, you can change themes, and for each selected theme, make individual changes to window borders, fonts, icons and alike. HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
RPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
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ESSENTIAL UBUNTU MATE TWEAKS AND CONFIGURATIONS Step 2: Themes and icons. Ubuntu MATE has several components that let you control the look & feel of the desktop. MATE Tweak governs the full desktop. You also need Control Center > Appearance, and here, you can change themes, and for each selected theme, make individual changes to window borders, fonts, icons and alike. HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE FIREFOX 89 - ANOTHER REDESIGN, ANOTHER ROLLERCOASTER 7 hours ago · Review of Firefox 89 with the new Proton UI refresh, including look and feel on three different desktops, numerous problems in the new design - low constrast, reduced visibility and navigation, and hidden options, some improvement in browser speed and responsiveness, how to disable Proton, historical perspective, other observations, and moreSTEAM PLAY, PROTON
Playing Windows games on Linux is a unicorn. Magical. Weird. But in recent years, it's sort of become a large-nosed horse. Maybe. Whatever the analogy or whatnot, the gaming parity between these operating systems remains one of the primary reasons why people, even if ROCKY LINUX 8 & HOW TO GET BETTER FONT CLARITY 1 day ago · Tutorial showing how to improve the clarity and legibility of fonts in Rocky Linux 8, including infinality mode change for the freetype font library, hinting and antialiasing tweaks, and abit more
RPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. THE PLASMA DESKTOP IS MILES AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE HD desktop scaling. Plasma is the only desktop environment in the Linux world with good fractional scaling. Rather than being limited to just say 100% or 200% view, or even 125% and 150% view, it lets you go down to tiny percentages (up to 6.25% resolution), so you can choose something like 113% or 137.5% if you like. WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC AIRCRAFT GUIDE Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic aircraft guide. Planes go brrr. At the time of writing, this was the only piece of information available on the Workers & Resources fandom page regarding the newly introduced aircraft functionality. Things may or will change by the time you read this article, but I had to toil all on my own, figuringout how
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLATIONS Download setup files. Launch the command line, change directory to where the actual setup.exe resides, and run: setup.exe /download \path\to\configuration.xml. If setup.exe and configuration.xml are in the same folder, you can just run: setup.exe /download configuration.xml. This command will grab the files from the Web, andplace them into a
FIREFOX & HOW TO REUSE AN OLD PROFILE Solution. Luckily, the fix for this bug is simple: launch the Firefox Profile Manager with an environment variable or use a runtime flag that overrides the default behavior, and allows the reuse of profiles. Indeed, there are several ways to achieve this. For example, on Linux, you can do this: Or maybe on Windows, change the browser shortcut to: HOW TO UNINSTALL WINE APPLICATIONS Tutorial showing how to remove Windows software installed in Linux using WINE, including 32-bit and 64-bit uninstaller, manual removal and registry changes, other tips and tricks, and more MICROSOFT EDGE ON ANDROID Microsoft Edge on Android - Watch out, sharp objects. Updated: April 15, 2020. My overall experience with Microsoft product has been largely bi-polar over the years. Either it's brilliant or chute d'oiseaux par excellence, with a rare meh in between. For example, the EMET framework or Windows Phone, the best thing since sliced bread andspace
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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
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MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES WITH FPS CREATORRPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
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LIBREOFFICE SAVE ERROR What I'm going to talk about today used to be a big problem in the past. There was a bug in version 4.X of LibreOffice, which would lead to weird save errors, causing people to lose data and whatnot. Now, since this is a thing of past, you might not consider it relevant anymore to your daily usage. HOW TO CUSTOMIZE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLATIONS Download setup files. Launch the command line, change directory to where the actual setup.exe resides, and run: setup.exe /download \path\to\configuration.xml. If setup.exe and configuration.xml are in the same folder, you can just run: setup.exe /download configuration.xml. This command will grab the files from the Web, andplace them into a
RPI4, RASPBERRY PI OS AND MATE DESKTOP Hear, hear. Today, I have a rather lengthy article for you. I want to show you all the different changes and tweaks I had to introduce to my Raspberry Pi 4 and its resident Raspberry Pi OS, in order to transform a fairly bland operating system into a stylish, eye-turning desktop. To that end, first step, I installed the MATE desktop environment. GOOGLE CHROME AW, SNAP! ERROR Short tutorial explaining how to work around the Aw, Swap! problem in latest version of Google Chrome on Windows 7 by temporarily disabling the internal sandboxing mechanism, with additional tips on security, including Microsoft EMET toolkit and Notscripts browser extension FIREFOX & HOW TO REUSE AN OLD PROFILE Solution. Luckily, the fix for this bug is simple: launch the Firefox Profile Manager with an environment variable or use a runtime flag that overrides the default behavior, and allows the reuse of profiles. Indeed, there are several ways to achieve this. For example, on Linux, you can do this: Or maybe on Windows, change the browser shortcut to: HOW TO INSTALL DIRECTX IN LINUX USING WINE To get DirectX running, you will need a long list of DLLs listed. The first step is to click on the New override dropdown box icon and expand the list. Search for the d3d8 DLL. Once found, click Add . It will be added to the Existing overrides list like this: d3d8(builtin,native) .
I WANTED TO TRY WINDOWS DEFENDER APPLICATION GUARD Application Guard is designed for enterprises, well much like the other two security solutions, and so it requires at least Windows 10 Pro, unlike the other two solutions, and that's something I didn't have on my test machine. I knew my attempt was going to fail. But I wanted to complete my testing session and write this article, becausethere
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE Step 1: Create a copy of the default system theme. Step one is to copy the default theme (Ambiant MATE) from /usr/share/themes into your homedirectory, into the
THE REAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE FACEBOOK Reason 1: Because everyone else is. You don't want to be a mindless borg. Being average is the worst curse that can befall a thinking man. Unless you wish to wear Crocs all your life and pay off the mortgage for your dream home, you should rethink your habits vis-a-vis what the plebes are doing. If everyone else is using Facebook, you have an DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
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USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
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USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COMSTEAM PLAY, PROTON
Playing Windows games on Linux is a unicorn. Magical. Weird. But in recent years, it's sort of become a large-nosed horse. Maybe. Whatever the analogy or whatnot, the gaming parity between these operating systems remains one of the primary reasons why people, even if all other circumstances align VIRTUAL MACHINES IN YOUR BROWSER Virtual x86 comes with several predefined profiles, including operating systems like KolibriOS, a generic Linux 2.6, FreeDOS, Windows 1.0, believe it or not, and some other interesting options. Then you can setup your own system, with its own CD, floppy and hard disk image. You can also change the boot order, define the memory andvideo RAM
THE PLASMA DESKTOP IS MILES AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE Enthusiastic overview of the Plasma desktop environment, covering its many useful capabilities, features and tools, including extensive customization, deep and varied desktop integration, desktop Activities, secure Vaults for private data, good software management, excellent HD desktop scaling, language and keyboard control, a full suite of mature applications, fast performance and lowWINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
Article and rant discussing an upgrade of Windows 10 Professional Edition Build 1909 to 20H2 on a serious-usage system, covering update process and speed, many unwarranted changes to various settings and tweaks, expired signatures for Defender AV services, file association nudges, headerbar messages, Office reactivation, explorer crash, CPU usage spikes, other bugs, annoyances TILED MENU IN PLASMA Would you like to have a tiled menu in Plasma? Maybe. Yes? Well, read on! As it happens, a few weeks ago, I tried to make the Plasma desktop look like Windows 10.One of the ingredients needed to bake this delightful cookie was Tiled Menu, available as an optional extra to Plasma users when it comes to the system menu look & feel. GNOME 40 - THE ANTI-DESKTOP DESKTOP - DEDOIMEDO Gnome 40 - The anti-desktop desktop. In a few weeks, Fedora 34 will be released, and alongside it - you will get to use Gnome 40, the next version of this namesake desktop environments. But wait. Gnome 40 has been officially released only a few short days ago, and you can already try it. Ahead of the distro testing season, I thought it wouldbe
FIREFOX & HOW TO REUSE AN OLD PROFILE Solution. Luckily, the fix for this bug is simple: launch the Firefox Profile Manager with an environment variable or use a runtime flag that overrides the default behavior, and allows the reuse of profiles. Indeed, there are several ways to achieve this. For example, on Linux, you can do this: Or maybe on Windows, change the browser shortcut to: WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC AIRCRAFT GUIDE Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic aircraft guide. Planes go brrr. At the time of writing, this was the only piece of information available on the Workers & Resources fandom page regarding the newly introduced aircraft functionality. Things may or will change by the time you read this article, but I had to toil all on my own, figuringout how
HOW TO CALIBRATE DISPLAY IN WINDOWS Here's a weird problem. I was using my Asus Vivobook, which happens to dual-boot Linux and Windows, and in the resident Windows 8.1, during some strenuous maintenance - installation of several applications, updates and such - my screen colors suddenly changed.It was as if the brightness had been halved, even though the slider was in the max.position.
QEMU VIRGIL
Virgil 3d is a project that aims to bring 3D wonders to virtualization software, with the goal of one day offering parity to host performance. An implementation of this solution is QEMU Virgil, which allows you to have SDL2 and Virgil 3d enabled in QEMU/KVM-based virtual machines. Sounds interesting. So let's have a look. DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
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USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COMSTEAM PLAY, PROTON
Playing Windows games on Linux is a unicorn. Magical. Weird. But in recent years, it's sort of become a large-nosed horse. Maybe. Whatever the analogy or whatnot, the gaming parity between these operating systems remains one of the primary reasons why people, even if all other circumstances align VIRTUAL MACHINES IN YOUR BROWSER Virtual x86 comes with several predefined profiles, including operating systems like KolibriOS, a generic Linux 2.6, FreeDOS, Windows 1.0, believe it or not, and some other interesting options. Then you can setup your own system, with its own CD, floppy and hard disk image. You can also change the boot order, define the memory andvideo RAM
THE PLASMA DESKTOP IS MILES AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE Enthusiastic overview of the Plasma desktop environment, covering its many useful capabilities, features and tools, including extensive customization, deep and varied desktop integration, desktop Activities, secure Vaults for private data, good software management, excellent HD desktop scaling, language and keyboard control, a full suite of mature applications, fast performance and lowWINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
Article and rant discussing an upgrade of Windows 10 Professional Edition Build 1909 to 20H2 on a serious-usage system, covering update process and speed, many unwarranted changes to various settings and tweaks, expired signatures for Defender AV services, file association nudges, headerbar messages, Office reactivation, explorer crash, CPU usage spikes, other bugs, annoyances TILED MENU IN PLASMA Would you like to have a tiled menu in Plasma? Maybe. Yes? Well, read on! As it happens, a few weeks ago, I tried to make the Plasma desktop look like Windows 10.One of the ingredients needed to bake this delightful cookie was Tiled Menu, available as an optional extra to Plasma users when it comes to the system menu look & feel. GNOME 40 - THE ANTI-DESKTOP DESKTOP - DEDOIMEDO Gnome 40 - The anti-desktop desktop. In a few weeks, Fedora 34 will be released, and alongside it - you will get to use Gnome 40, the next version of this namesake desktop environments. But wait. Gnome 40 has been officially released only a few short days ago, and you can already try it. Ahead of the distro testing season, I thought it wouldbe
FIREFOX & HOW TO REUSE AN OLD PROFILE Solution. Luckily, the fix for this bug is simple: launch the Firefox Profile Manager with an environment variable or use a runtime flag that overrides the default behavior, and allows the reuse of profiles. Indeed, there are several ways to achieve this. For example, on Linux, you can do this: Or maybe on Windows, change the browser shortcut to: WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC AIRCRAFT GUIDE Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic aircraft guide. Planes go brrr. At the time of writing, this was the only piece of information available on the Workers & Resources fandom page regarding the newly introduced aircraft functionality. Things may or will change by the time you read this article, but I had to toil all on my own, figuringout how
HOW TO CALIBRATE DISPLAY IN WINDOWS Here's a weird problem. I was using my Asus Vivobook, which happens to dual-boot Linux and Windows, and in the resident Windows 8.1, during some strenuous maintenance - installation of several applications, updates and such - my screen colors suddenly changed.It was as if the brightness had been halved, even though the slider was in the max.position.
QEMU VIRGIL
Virgil 3d is a project that aims to bring 3D wonders to virtualization software, with the goal of one day offering parity to host performance. An implementation of this solution is QEMU Virgil, which allows you to have SDL2 and Virgil 3d enabled in QEMU/KVM-based virtual machines. Sounds interesting. So let's have a look. DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944.RPI 4 & UBUNTU MATE
VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
USEFUL GEANY PLUGINS, TIPS AND TRICKS THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT CENTOS THEME BMW X3 XDRIVE20D XLINE REVIEW HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE PLASMA SECRETS: SSH CONNECTIVITY IN DOLPHINSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COMSTEAM PLAY, PROTON
Playing Windows games on Linux is a unicorn. Magical. Weird. But in recent years, it's sort of become a large-nosed horse. Maybe. Whatever the analogy or whatnot, the gaming parity between these operating systems remains one of the primary reasons why people, even if all other circumstances align VIRTUAL MACHINES IN YOUR BROWSER Virtual x86 comes with several predefined profiles, including operating systems like KolibriOS, a generic Linux 2.6, FreeDOS, Windows 1.0, believe it or not, and some other interesting options. Then you can setup your own system, with its own CD, floppy and hard disk image. You can also change the boot order, define the memory andvideo RAM
THE PLASMA DESKTOP IS MILES AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE Enthusiastic overview of the Plasma desktop environment, covering its many useful capabilities, features and tools, including extensive customization, deep and varied desktop integration, desktop Activities, secure Vaults for private data, good software management, excellent HD desktop scaling, language and keyboard control, a full suite of mature applications, fast performance and lowWINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
Article and rant discussing an upgrade of Windows 10 Professional Edition Build 1909 to 20H2 on a serious-usage system, covering update process and speed, many unwarranted changes to various settings and tweaks, expired signatures for Defender AV services, file association nudges, headerbar messages, Office reactivation, explorer crash, CPU usage spikes, other bugs, annoyances TILED MENU IN PLASMA Would you like to have a tiled menu in Plasma? Maybe. Yes? Well, read on! As it happens, a few weeks ago, I tried to make the Plasma desktop look like Windows 10.One of the ingredients needed to bake this delightful cookie was Tiled Menu, available as an optional extra to Plasma users when it comes to the system menu look & feel. GNOME 40 - THE ANTI-DESKTOP DESKTOP - DEDOIMEDO Gnome 40 - The anti-desktop desktop. In a few weeks, Fedora 34 will be released, and alongside it - you will get to use Gnome 40, the next version of this namesake desktop environments. But wait. Gnome 40 has been officially released only a few short days ago, and you can already try it. Ahead of the distro testing season, I thought it wouldbe
FIREFOX & HOW TO REUSE AN OLD PROFILE Solution. Luckily, the fix for this bug is simple: launch the Firefox Profile Manager with an environment variable or use a runtime flag that overrides the default behavior, and allows the reuse of profiles. Indeed, there are several ways to achieve this. For example, on Linux, you can do this: Or maybe on Windows, change the browser shortcut to: WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC AIRCRAFT GUIDE Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic aircraft guide. Planes go brrr. At the time of writing, this was the only piece of information available on the Workers & Resources fandom page regarding the newly introduced aircraft functionality. Things may or will change by the time you read this article, but I had to toil all on my own, figuringout how
HOW TO CALIBRATE DISPLAY IN WINDOWS Here's a weird problem. I was using my Asus Vivobook, which happens to dual-boot Linux and Windows, and in the resident Windows 8.1, during some strenuous maintenance - installation of several applications, updates and such - my screen colors suddenly changed.It was as if the brightness had been halved, even though the slider was in the max.position.
QEMU VIRGIL
Virgil 3d is a project that aims to bring 3D wonders to virtualization software, with the goal of one day offering parity to host performance. An implementation of this solution is QEMU Virgil, which allows you to have SDL2 and Virgil 3d enabled in QEMU/KVM-based virtual machines. Sounds interesting. So let's have a look. DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944. MY SIMCITY 4 REGION IS COMPLETE! My SimCity 4 region is complete! Updated: October 24, 2011. SimCity 4 is a superb city building simulation, quite likely the best ever made. Not only does it allow you total freedom in your design, individual cities in a given region all become interconnected, creating a metropolis. The more complex your road network and industry, thebetter.
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Winget - The Windows (Package Manager) gets it all Updated: June 1, 2020 | Category: Windows The concept of package management - focused around a centralized location where users can grab all their applications - isn't new or novel, and it certainly didn't start with mobile operating systems. This is something that has existed in Linux for years, and eventually morphed into application stores. Apple has one, Google has one, and Microsoft, well, it kind of has one. Alas, it doesn't target the primary audience of Windows - the bazillion desktop users. I was a huge fan of Windows Phone - I still proudly own a few, from Lumia 520 to Lumia 950 - but the straw that burned the entire field was the lack of popular applications in the Microsoft Store. Combined with the fact Windows users would get their software in individual bits and pieces, from this and that site, the end result was: almost no traction in this fallow field. Windows Package Manager is a bold attempt to rectify this situation.Read more ...
ArmA 3 delights: DRO Alamo style Updated: May 30, 2020 | Category: Game reviews After a long day of IT stuff, one must rest. Body and mind. Mostly mind. All that passive-aggressive work needs to be turned into aggressive fun. And what better thing to de-stress than a two-hour multiplayer session in the most realistic war simulation game of all time - ArmA 3? Indeed. Typically, I like to play Dynamic Recon Ops (DRO) missions on any one of the available maps in ArmA 3, expansions and mods inclusive, with some family and friends. You end up in a team of four to eight human/AI combatants, going on a range of objectives, including sabotage, hostage rescue, search and destroy, and more. Now and then, I like to report back on these endeavors, like say my Chernarus Winter mission. Recently, I enjoyed a really cool session playing an against-all-odds type of scenario, but without the accompanying Phil Collins musics, and so here we go again on our own.Read more ...
Fedora 32 Workstation review - Tux over troubled waters Updated: May 29, 2020 | Category: Linux The spring season continues. We shall now embark on a Fedora journey. If you followed my tirades over the past few years, you will probably have noticed that I did manage to find some semblance of reasonable productivity with Fedora, albeit after heavy modifications and tweaking. You can of course sample of those experiences by reading my reviews - Fedora 29, Fedora 30 and finally the yesteryear Fedora 31article.
There's much more, but I'm sure, if you want, you'll find the material. Anyway, on my eight-boot test laptop, I've had both versions 30 and 31 installed, and typically, I'd go for an in-vivo upgrade. But I wanted to start from scratch, and get a sense of how the system behaves au naturel, without any trace of my years-long polish and trim. So here we go.Read more ...
How to configure G'MIC plugin for GIMP on Windows Updated: May 27, 2020 | Category: Other software For those of you feeling confused by the namedropping exercise in the title, things are simpler than they read. GIMP is a pretty reasonable, feature-rich image manipulation program (hence its recursive name). It comes with a range of image filters, allowing you to make changes to your photos and pictures, like blur, glow, noise, and many others. But sometimes, even this nice repertoire isn't enough. To that end, you want something like G'MIC, an image processing framework that comes with loads of extra tools that you can use. For example, you can do color, light and pattern changes, add artistic touches, repair inconsistencies in pictures, render shapes, and then some. The full list of G'MIC features is way too long, so I must resort to: trust me, I'm an engineer. Actually, I'm not, I'm a physicist, so my word is doubly good here. Anyway, in Linux, setting up G'MIC is trivial. In Windows, less so. That's why we're here.Read more ...
How to add and pin custom applications in Plasma Updated: May 25, 2020 | Category: Linux A while back, I showed you a couple of nice tricks: how to add icons for multiple versions of the same program onto the icons-only task manager in the Plasma desktop environment, and along the same lines, we also learned how to add icons for WINE programs. Now, we shall unveil another little icons trick. Specifically, how to add and pin custom applications onto the Plasma system (application) menu. If you install software using the package manager, whichever way, then you will end up also having that software properly associated with the system, which means it will show up in the application menu. But what happens if you have custom applications, say a standalone bundle? This could be a separate version of Firefox or LibreOffice perhaps, or something similar. Let's see how we can integrate those like champs.After me.
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OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 5.5.1 - Good but can be better Updated: May 23, 2020 | Category: Office Several months ago, I wrote my review of OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, a free, cross-platform office suite. This turned out to be a nice, fresh product, with lots of goodies, solid Microsoft Office compatibility, plus a range of unique and useful points like plugins, encryption and such. In between the costly but powerful Microsoft solution and the somewhat tenacious but occasionally erratic LibreOffice, this comes as a nice, flexible compromise, a sort of best of both worlds. Recently, I got an email from the company, asking me, pretty please, to do another review of the product, and I decided to go for it. There's a new version of the office suite, some improvements, some bug fixes, so maybe this could be the version that makes it into my production setup. Maybe. Let's examine.Read more ...
Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Focal Fossa - Roll on for the mystery tour Updated: May 20, 2020 | Category: Linux It is time to embark on another distro testing adventure. This spring season, I've tested Kubuntu and then Xubuntu of the Focal flavor, and they gave me distinctly different results, which always worries and saddens me, because consistency is what empires are built upon. And that makes today's test even more important. We shall sample from theMATE's corner now.
Overall, Ubuntu MATE has behaved okay in the past few years. It has an established identity, it's getting friendlier by the release, and it comes with some rather unique features, a refreshing departure from the rubberstamp slog that is the Linux desktop nowadays. But then, 'tis LTS now, so everything must be super-green. And given the distros select colors, it's only expected. Let's begin.Read more ...
Eurotrip: From France to Germany in BMW X3 Updated: May 18, 2020 | Category: Car reviews Travel we must. In a nice car, to be more precise. 'Tis a Eurotrip! This time, the adventure takes us to crazy, wondrous places – France and Germany. Some 1,200 kilometers of roads, from urban alleys to unrestricted highways in the land of the free (cars). And since it's THE autobahn we're talking about it, then we need a vehicle with a bit of oomph, plus German heritage. You got the answer right: BMW X3. I've already reviewed this car several years ago, but it was in the xDrive guise, with the mighty twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six diesel, similar to the BMW 330d experience. Now though, we will have to make do with only a two-liter engine. But it ought to be interesting. Sobegin, let's.
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Moto G4 & home screen black status bar icons all of a sudden Updated: May 17, 2020 | Category: Hardware Here's a weird little problem what I encountered. As you probably (don't) recall, I have a Moto G4 phone in me arsenal of smart thingies. Everything was cushty for a long while, without any issues or whatnot. One merry afternoon, this changed. I noticed the status bar icons - the top of the home screen - had suddenly turned black. This rendered them almost invisible, and indeed, by default, they are white. I also noticed the problem only affected the home screen, as the correct color transition from white to black and vice versa was happening across the rest of the system. All right. Weird problems require weird solutions.Read more ...
Forget Me Not - Firefox cookies chef galore Updated: May 15, 2020 | Category: Internet Overall, most operating systems need little cleanup supervision. Similarly, most applications work fine without any manual intervention. The exception are browsers, which can accumulate huge amounts of transient data in very short periods of time. Browse for a week, and at the end of it, you will have hoarded up hundreds of MB of cached files plus a few hundred cookies. On its own, not a bitproblem, but.
Things would be perfect if there were no bugs. But I did encounter a weird Firefox & cookies issue a while back. Resolved by cleaning cookies. If you want to image your system, you don't really want all the cached browser data to go into the archive. Hence, cleanup. Indeed, browsers give you the option to delete data - by type and time. But what no browser really offers is a permanent, selective keep list for certain items, like say cookies. You want to get rid of the junk, but you want to retain only cookies for specific sites. Which is why we must explore Forget Me Not, a really handy and useful Firefoxadd-on. Commence.
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BleachBit - Spring cleaning all year long Updated: May 13, 2020 | Category: Windows Once upon a time in Dedoimedoland, I used CCleaner to do some basic housekeeping in Windows. Over the years, the program seems to have caught a lot of (colorful) spotlight, which made me wary of using the newer versions. While I had very little problems myself, I wanted to explore other options, see whether there are other simple, free and practical housekeeping utilities for Windows. The answer is, of course there are. But the thing is, I have become far more stringent and rigorous in testing software, and then vetting it into anything resembling production setups. Plus Windows 10 comes with some new tools for old data and cruft cleanup. Among the many different options, I decided to try BleachBit. I first got acquainted with it on Linux - where I find system cleanup tools to be dangerous, but the familiarity made me give it another whirl, this time in Windows. Proceed, we shall.Read more ...
Broken apt, missing dependencies, what now? Updated: May 11, 2020 | Category: Linux The problem you're facing is as follows. You tried to run a regular update on your Linux box, most likely an Ubuntu- or Debian-based system that uses apt as its package manager. After you updated the repo contents, you ran the dist-upgrade command, and soon hit an error. Apt was complaining about missing or broken dependencies, and suggested you re-run the command with --fix-broken or alike. However, this does not seem to help. I encountered this issue a few weeks back on KDE neon. The problem really annoyed me, because without some expert knowledge, there's no way out. You're left with an unusable system that cannot be reliably updated. This is so brittle, and we're in 2020, when one would expect some level of robustness from software. LELZ. I did praise neon in the past for its resilience, but then it went ahead and undid its own work. Anyway, let me show you how you can resolve this issue.Read more ...
Xubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa - Tickboxer Updated: May 10, 2020 | Category: Linux After Kubuntu, it's Xubuntu time. We need to embark on another distro test, now that the hunting season is officially open. The first four months of this year weren't kind to my mojo. I tried a few systems, and most of them didn't really deliver, adding to my spiritual disillusionment. Now, Kubuntu 20.04 was surprisingly neat. So I'm sort of cautiously optimistic. Xubuntu is my next gig. The odds are ... mixed. Xfce can be a blast when done right, especially if you're in the game of hardware frugality. But it can also be a bad case of misplaced nostalgia. Like when you remember a decade fondly, but then you think more deeply, and suddenly recall also all the other things that don't come up in that first gushing moment of glorified memories. Anyway, G50 laptop, multi-boot combo with Windows and Linux, and off we go.Read more ...
Plasma desktop secrets: system area icon spacing Updated: May 8, 2020 | Category: Linux Overall, I'm mighty pleased with the Plasma desktop. But come version 5.16, y'know, two versions behind the most recent one - Plasma 5.18 LTS, there have been a few less-than-ideal changes, mostly tiny visual things that make the desktop less sharp than before. Again, since the desktop evolves quite rapidly, by the time you read this, we might all be using flying cars and atomic refridgerators and talk to AI assistants like all the time. Or not really. Well, one of the things I find less nice in the new more-touchy more-plasticky Plasma of recent is that the system area icon spacing is a bit off. Less than ideal. The icons sit too close to one another. So I got me thinking, how does one edit this? Well, the answer isn't trivial, hence this article. Begin to explore!Read more ...
Plasma Unity looks - More Latte and window button tweaks Updated: May 6, 2020 | Category: Linux After writing my article on how to style the Plasma desktop to look like Unity, I received a fair deal of emails from readers, including the author of Latte Dock, offering various tips and suggestions on how to improve my work. This included changes to my panel and dock configuration, the use of other widgets that do not require compilation, some other ideas, and such. Well, since we're after perfection, a true form of art, it's only natural that I write a sequel. This isn't a comprehensive compilation of all the tips and tricks I received, just a selection of the ones that made most sense to me. Of course, I had to make sure everything actually works, and some things are far from trivial, hence this article. Let's begin.Read more ...
WordPress Site Health - cURL error 28 (REST API, loopback) Updated: May 4, 2020 | Category: Internet Recently, I discovered an interesting little problem. I run WordPress on my books-only website, and naturally, there's testing that needs to be done to make sure everything is hunky-dory ere any changes are introduced to the domain. One such change was the introduction of the Site Health check tool in WordPress 5.2, which tells you of any critical issues and recommended actions for your setup. On its own, this is fine, but then I noticed a couple of supposedly critical errors showing up with update to 5.4, indicating a sudden new issue with the domain. The errors were: The REST API encountered an error and Your site could not complete a loopback request. The details for both these read: Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (http_request_failed). Weird.Let's debug.
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Kubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa - Purrs like a bear Updated: May 1, 2020 | Category: Linux I don't know why, but for some reason, as I started my Kubuntu test today, Pet Shop Boys' Go West started playing in me head. Associative memory or something. Indeed, here we are. The spring distro hunting season is officially open, and we commence with Kubuntu 20.04. The hopes are high. Long Term support, Plasma 5.18, all sorts of improvements and goodies. Plus, if you recall, I'm running Kubuntu 18.04 as my production operating system on the Slimbook Pro2 laptop, so there's an upgrade to contemplate, as well. The test box? The G50 workhorse; UEFI, 16 partitions, Intel graphics. Let's.Read more ...
How to change the address bar in Firefox 75 (and beyond) Updated: April 29, 2020 | Category: Internet Firefox 75 brought about a pointless change - the address bar (urlbar) now sort of "zooms in" when clicked, partially obscuring the surrounding UI, including any shortcuts you may have pinned there. This thing feels totally mobile, and totally wrong on the desktop. For the time being, as I've shown you in the article above, this nonsense can be reverted through a number of about:config settings. But in Firefox 77 (nightly), these options are gone, so we need something else. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can get the old address bar look & feel, so you will not be affected by low-IQ changes come the dire moment. Just as I thought Firefox was rising above the mobile toss-me-a-chromosome game, this kind of thing comesaround. Follow me.
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Plasma 5.18.4 - Taking care of business Updated: April 27, 2020 | Category: Linux Several months ago, I reviewed Plasma 5.18 LTS. I was happy but not elated. There were problems, there were bugs, there was sadness. But all in all, Plasma is a superb desktop environment, it's charging forth like a mad colt, and innovation is aplenty. This good momentum results in continuous changes and fixes being introduced to the desktop, resulting in an ever-more-refined product for the end user. This means, by now, Plasma 5.18 should be quite polished. The rough patches we saw are most likely gone, no more, ceased to be, expired and gone to meet their maker, a stiff, bereft of life, rest in peace! But, we need to test that hypothesis. As it happens, I ran a merry update, Plasma got bumped to 5.18.4, and I'm doing my round of prodding and pushing. Follow me.Read more ...
Firefox 75 - Not bad but also not necessary Updated: April 25, 2020 | Category: Internet I've done a fair share of Firefox-related articles lately. 'Tis a strange dichotomy what lurks in me heart. On one hand, I'm quite angry over the years of lost elan as a result of the whole Chrome copypasta Australis nonsense. On the other, Firefox is the most sensible browser out there, still, and you SHOULD use it. On the third hand, Firefox has been improving lately, becoming saner, more fun, more reasonable. A good start, and hopefully, not too late. I gave you an overview of versions 71 and 72, lay low for a while, and now, with Firefox 75 out, I did some testing. As it turns out, with the fastened cadence of release, there ought to be less super-big stuff in Firefox releases, ergo lean reporting. But then, this particular version comes with something that took me off the happy path I've been walking lately. Let's talk.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 30 (FINAL) Updated: April 24, 2020 | Category: Books Lee Qiang opened the email. It was in Mandarin: I know you're angry. I know you feel like I betrayed you. But we both know that's not the case. This is war, and as luck would have it, we fight for different sides in this sorry conflict. We both know what it takes—whatever it takes—to finish the mission. I could not have given up mine, and I know you know and respect that. You would have done the same. Had I given up, I would have lost your respect, and no matter how insincere that may sound to you, I find that important.Read more ...
(my books-only website) SparkyLinux 2020.03 - Strike that flint real good Updated: April 22, 2020 | Category: Linux A man does not need much to be happy. Maybe a nice car, loads of money, a house somewhere tropic, perhaps his own castle with fortifications and remotely operated machine gun nests, a strong family line, good food, plenty of sleep and other health-related activities, robots, and yes, a stable operating system. That's a tricky one if you be a-huntin' on the Penguin Island AKA Linuxland. Recently AKA 2020, I embarked on Obscure Weekly (thank you Dodgeball for this fine reference), mostly testing less-known, less-popular, less-appreciated distros. This was an emotional gamble, as I found out more disappointment than aforementioned joy in my pursuit of happiness. I toned it down with some upbeat Manjaro testing, but all in all, it wasn't a tremendous start. Now, a new candidate. A new gamble. Can SparkyLinux spark my sparkle? I last tried it in 2013, and it was ... odd. Listless. Well, let's see if we can rekindle the fire. Testing the semi-rolling 2020.3 release clad in Xfce on my G50 multi-boot laptop. After me.Read more ...
Google Chrome and desktop icon refresh problem Updated: April 20, 2020 | Category: Internet Here's the oddest little problem you may face - or read about - in a while. On one of my Windows machines, I noticed a strange phenomenon. Every time I'd launch Google Chrome (latest version when written), close the browser, or - best yet - sign in or out of a Gmail account, all my desktop icons would refresh. Looking around, I did find a Chromium bug report from 2015, which also mentioned a workaround. Needless to say, the specific workaround is no longer available, as the user icon is no longer present in the Chrome window border, and flags occasionally come and go, as they represent experimental browser features. But this was a good starting point, so I went about testing and tweaking, until I found the right solution.After me.
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CentOS 8 desktop perfection - the sequel Updated: April 18, 2020 | Category: Linux It's time for another article in my years-long CentOS pimpification series. We started this with CentOS 6 back in the day, continued with CentOS 7, and recently, I've also shown you how to transform the relatively dull yet fully functional server distro AKA CentOS 8 into a nice and fun desktop. We did many a cool task, but there's more to bedone.
So I set about polishing the desktop some extra, adding new software, making fresh changes, testing every which option in order to discover the corner cases and resolve them. It mostly went well, but then, a few things didn't. Which means, for the first time, we will have an imperfect desktop. I wasn't expecting this, but I guess that's part of this ongoing adventure. Let's commence.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 29 Updated: April 17, 2020 | Category: Books"How are you?"
"Nervous," Sveta said. Lee Qiang smiled. "That facade finally crumbling, eh?" Sveta made a wry face. "I have seen prisoner exchanges before. Sometimes they go badly wrong. I'd rather be crossing the Volga River in a Taifun. At least there I had the feeling of being in control." Is that what's bothering you? Lee Qiang wondered. That you are no longer in control? That you cannot manipulate anymore? That you're going back to your side, which may not look fondly on your gettingcaptured?
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(my books-only website) Microsoft Edge on Android - Watch out, sharp objects Updated: April 15, 2020 | Category: Internet My overall experience with Microsoft product has been largely bi-polar over the years. Either it's brilliant or chute d'oiseaux par excellence, with a rare meh in between. For example, the EMET framework or Windows Phone, the best thing since sliced bread and space-based lasers. But then, you have things like Windows 8 Start Menu or the Settings in Windows 10, which challenge my chromosomes. Edge, the browser, is another example. I loved it on my Lumia 950. It was fast and elegant. On the desktop, it's a paperweight. Useless. But then, having recently done some testing with Firefox Preview, I decided to put aside my anguish and sense of disillusionment after the demise of the Windows Phone, and give Edge another chance. Only onAndroid this time.
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Puppy Linux BionicPup 8.0 - Small and feisty Updated: April 13, 2020 | Category: Linux In this day and age, one might feel like there's no need for distros like Puppy Linux. You could say, Ubuntu-based, why bother, use the official distro and whatnot. But that feeling and that saying would be misplaced. Because there's still room for ultra-frugal live-session Tux o' All Trades systems like Puppy. This is why we're here. I've used Puppy for many a summer, and I've always liked its premise. Small, fast, live CD/thumb drive system with optional persistence, lots of apps designed to work out of the box on all manner of hardware, including old and weak systems. In a way, this is your Swiss Army knife for travel and opportunistic use. But going back to the skeptics, is it still relevant in 2020? Let's find out.Read more ...
Firefox refuses to become default browser (Plasma, neon) Updated: April 11, 2020 | Category: Internet Remember my neon escapade with the Network Manager? Turns out, this wasn't the only bugbear I had to face that day. As part of my VPN testing procedure, I also copied a hardened browser profile from Kubuntu into neon, in order to save some time. I wasn't in the mood in having to reconfigure everything, from adblocking to user agent, popup blocking, WebRTC tweaks, and alike. Indeed, one of the elegant things about Firefox is that you can easily copy your profile between machines, and I've done this many many times in the past, with greatsuccess.
But then, Firefox started pestering me with the question whether to make it a default browser. Every launch. It would seem my selection wasn't being respected. Even worse, clicking on the Make default button in the browser preferences didn't do anything. A fix wasneeded.
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It's all in the dot file - YADM and Homeshick Updated: April 8, 2020 | Category: Linux Backups are important. Backups are crucial. Backups are love, backups are life. Over the years, I've talked about the cardinal value of keeping your data safe, and that means multiple copies, multiple locations. We also talked about how to concoct your own quick 'n' dirty setup with tar and gpg recently. That one covers both data and application settings. Speaking of the latter ... Let's expand on this some more. If you have multiple computers, reinstall systems frequently, or just like to have a consistent configuration across multiple hosts, you might be interested in a way to manage application settings. In Linux, most software keeps their configurations in hidden files inside the home directory, either at the top level (/home/username) or inside the .config sub-directory. Either way, there could be plenty of them, you want to make sure you always have a copy, and if something goes wrong, you can easily revert to a good checkpoint. Introducting YADM and Homeshick.Read more ...
Biogenesis - Play evolution Updated: April 6, 2020 | Category: Other software Molecular biology is a fascinating thing. Combine it with computers, and you get yourself a platform for studying the evolution of life. Not an easy one, and scientists worldwide have been at this problem for many years now, trying to understand and replicate the environmental conditions that led to the creation of life on Earth. If you're fascinated by the concepts of amino acids, RNA, cellular division and alike, you can partake in the discovery journey with Biogenesis, a free, cross-platform, Java-based visual microbiology simulator. The idea is simple: you get a primordial soup, and you get to control it, studying and creating organisms of your own. Sounds like good, solid educational fun. Let there be light. I mean Java.Read more ...
Manjaro 19 Kyria Gnome - Fairly well put together Updated: April 4, 2020 | Category: Linux Flashing my dope cool nerd badge. Agent Dedo, at your service. Why? Because I'm testing an Arch-based distro again. Now, over the years, Manjaro has done a great deal to distance itself from its sacrificial altar roots, and now caters to people who prefer things more desktopy. That doesn't meant it's all 4% milk and yak butter from here on, oh no. But it's steadily improving, and my impressions of yesterversionwere jolly.
But then, in the last few tests, I tried Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon editions - not Gnome just yet. While I think it's an unnecessary toll on resources maintaining four different desktops, perhaps we might be pleasantly surprised. After all, Manjaro has always managed to sneak in cool features amidst the nerdery. My test box be Lenovo G50, with its multi-boot boogaloo. Let's commence.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 27 Updated: April 3, 2020 | Category: Books Ignoring the wounded, Lee Qiang tuned his mind back to the fight. They had to neutralize the armor first. If they did not, they would alldie.
He tried to close his fist. It worked. He opened it. A spongy feeling, but his muscles responded. His sleeve was drenched with blood. The fabric was ripped in two places where the shrapnel had cut through. Lee Qiang rose, using his left arm to pull himself up against the greasy side of the all-terrain vehicle. The cannon breech was closed. Lonya must have reloaded a fresh shell before the Type 89 fired. Lee Qiang positioned himself behind the gunner sight, aiming the iron atthe AFV.
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(my books-only website) Network Manager says limited connectivity but everything works Updated: April 1, 2020 | Category: Linux As it turns out, breaking your system is very easy, if you set your heart and mind to it. This problem has a convoluted origin and a rather interesting solution, so bear with me. As it happens, 'twas a dark and rainy night, and I set about testing several VPN services. One of them: Mullvad. It worked fine for a while, but then I upgraded the application version from the 2019.1 build to 2019.8 build, and things stopped working fine. Whenever I'd connect to VPN, DNS resolution would stop. Test box: Kubuntu 18.04. I wasn't sure if this was specific to my host or a wider problem, so I decided to test in KDE neon, too, which happens to be one of the many distros I have installed on the G50 laptop. A reboot or two later, lots of nice Plasma updates (going up to 5.16.90 at the time of writing), and some small tweaks, I had Mullvad running fine. But then, the Network Manager started to complain about limited connectivity. Let's see what gives.Read more ...
OCRFeeder - Where images go to text Updated: March 30, 2020 | Category: Office Recently, finding really cool, new, unique Linux software has become a difficult task. A chore. And by recently, I actually meant these past four or five years, even since the slow decline of enthusiasm and innovation in the desktop space started. After all, there's a limit to how much good stuff can exist in a finite volume of intellect, but let's not forget the wrong shift of focus to mobile and the shattering of the year-of-the-Linux dream. This makes my test of a four-year-old piece of software named OCRFeeder valid, I think. For two reasons. If it's good, it's good. Second, I've always been interested in the progress of optical character recognition, and whether our tools (read AI) can do a reasonable job here. I wrote about this in detail a while back, and then reviewed YAGF in 2015. Now, let's have a look at OCRFeeder and what it can do. After me, brave Linux warriors.Read more ...
Arcolinux - Too much, too little Updated: March 28, 2020 | Category: Linux Walking the Tux road, one system at a time. A short while back, I thought a departure from the proven mainstream dozen distros would do me some fresh good. So I grabbed Solus OS, I tested Peppermint, and now, I'd like to embark on an Arch adventure. Previously known as ArchMerge, Arcolinux is a distro that obeys Monty Python's rule of three. Three shall be the number of versions, and the number of desktop environments shall be three. Not two, not four. ArcoLinux has the main edition plus D and B builds for tinkerers. I opted for the Xfce-clad 19.12 release. Without further ado, let's seewhat gives.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 26 Updated: March 27, 2020 | Category: Books "Maybe you use some of that gay charm to talk our way out of this?" Lee Qiang put a hand on Lip's shoulder and loved the fact the man flinched ever so subtly. "Not sure if that's going to work here, but thank you for your suggestion."There was a bridge.
Flowing lazily under it, the Volga River. Guarding both banks was a shady bunch of troops in mismatched camo and a serious stock of weapons.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Asus Vivobook - Long in the tooth, going strong Updated: March 25, 2020 | Category: Hardware , Linux Over the past several months, you've read my Slimbook combat reports, detailing my real, production-level use of a Linux-only laptop for serious stuff. But this is not the first time I've utilized a Linux machine for actual desktop work. There was the eeePC, a journey-hardened beast. And then, we also have an age-weathered 2013-vintage Asus Vivobook, which has served loyally in this capacityfor several years.
For almost five years, the laptop ran the most excellent Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, and it did well, at home and abroad, in known and unknown locations. It was always utterly stable, the keyboard is amazing, the battery life has always been decent even if the performance isn't that stellar. The only complaint would be a somewhat weak Wireless signal compared to most other machines. Several months ago, come the end of Trusty LTS, I upgraded the system to Bionic, and installed Unity and Plasma desktops. In this article, I want to tell you how the Ultrabook fared in so-called "combat" conditions since. After me.Read more ...
Calibre - a high-caliber software for anything e-book Updated: March 23, 2020 | Category: Office What makes for a really good program? The usual suspects would be efficiency, stability and great functionality. But what about the frequency of use? Well, not if Calibre has anything to do with it. Because this is an application that I use relatively sparingly, and yet, it's an immensely useful, possibly even irreplaceable tool when you need to do any sort of e-book work. For authors, doubly so. Being one, ergo hint, ipso facto, then perhaps it's time for a review. I've been using Calibre for years now - I've even written a short tutorial on how to convert KFX files a while back, but so far, I have failed to write a full, proper review. Because it's not just a program to convert among different e-book formats. It's so much more. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's begin.Read more ...
Open-Shell - Classic Shell Reborn, and pretty neat too Updated: March 21, 2020 | Category: Windows Some weeks ago, I encountered the Windows 10 black-screen search bug while setting up a new computer, just before I managed to put in the tweak that disables any sort of online search functionality. This was a silly bug that shouldn't have happened, and a day later, I would have missed it. But it got me thinking. Maybe it's time to re-exploreClassic Shell?
Classic Shell was the one tool that allowed me to use Windows 8, without having to go through the chromosomally challenged full-screen Start Screen that was supposed to be the new rage of touchified nonsense in the desktop space. Then, I discovered that Classic Shell had ceased development. But there's a fork available, called Open-Shell, and it's also supposed on Windows 10. So I startedtesting.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 25 Updated: March 20, 2020 | Category: Books Yefim had rhotacism. Back in Poland, when Lee Qiang had been growing up, such a speech impediment would have earned a child a lifetime worth of beating. Probably in all the Slavic countries. The fact Yefim was still very much healthy and alive in Sector 8 meant the childhood bullying hadprepared him well.
They sat in the man's house, in what would technically be the living room, drinking too-sweet tea from small crystal glasses. It wassurreal.
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(my books-only website) Integrated translations in Linux desktop - doable? Updated: March 18, 2020 | Category: Linux Here's an interesting problem slash scenario for you. The Gnome and Plasma desktop environments support online account integration to some extent. Fine. You also have fairly powerful, online-aware search tools, which let you do all sorts of complex actions, including wiki queries, mathematical calculations, application functions, and more. Krunner in Plasma is a great example. But then, you don't really get translations. If you work with several languages and you have a need for occasional linguistic sparring, this option doesn't really feature highly in Linux desktops. Or at all. Combine that with the healthy fact you have no integrated assistants (Siri, Cortana, Alexa, whatnot) that could potentially do this for you, translations are something you must either: a) do online yourself b) use a dedicated app. So I thought, is there an easy way to integrate this kind of functionality into the Linux desktop, Plasma and/or Gnome? Well, let's find out.Read more ...
FocusWriter - Text editor gone minimalistic Updated: March 9, 2020 | Category: Office A few weeks ago, I was looking around for some nice Linux software, and I came across the home page of the person who had created the Whisker Menu for Xfce. Since I really like this one - I even included it as my favorite desktop menu in the 2018 best Linux apps compilation, I was intrigued by the other software in the repertoire, and decided to do some random testing. A program called FocusWriterdrew my attention.
Well, FocusWriter is meant to be a simple, straightforward, distraction-free advanced text editor, designed to provide those using it with maximum productivity. In other words, you don't waste time managing the software, you don't waste time getting your fleeting attention span diverted, you get stuff done. Well, that's the core idea on paper. As someone who writes books, I found the concept curious and inviting. Perhaps I could be doing something more effectively? Well, let's find out.Read more ...
Cockpit - Highway to the admin zone Updated: March 7, 2020 | Category: Linux There are many Web-based admin GUI in Linux. Lots. They all have something in common - they let you monitor and manage your environment using a centralized facility. They also have something else in common, and that's the complexity of configuration. In most cases, if you like to have a robust network of hosts talking to each other, you have to sweat it. XML, JSON, events, whatever. Boring. The Cockpit Project is an integrated and easy-to-use Web-based management tool, which I happed to discover on Fedora 30 some time ago. Well. While I wasn't too impressed with what Fedora 30 had to offer me, it is a test bed for cool and new technology. So I was quite intrigued and went abed - testing. Or rather, I strapped into the cockpit, ha ha ha, hi hi he. Indeed, let's begin.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 23 Updated: March 6, 2020 | Category: BooksDusk. Rest.
Orenburg was still there around them, a torn postcard of destruction, obscured by the wilderness. At the bottom of what looked like a dry irrigation canal, there was a convoy of abandoned cars all sunk deep in sandy ground. Plastic bags of rubbish poked through the grass, spangles of red and blue against the sunburnt carpet. Higher on the west bank, there was a bus. The rust-splotched husk was lying on its belly, the axles half-sunk into the ground, leaning slightly toward the incline. The old thing had burned down, and was mottled reddish-black all over. There was a patina of lichen-like growth climbing up its sides. Inside, the plastic chairs had melted, forming a frozen river. Even now, even with his senses dulled by illness and the ashes, he could smell the waxy,phenol stench.
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(my books-only website) VirtualBox & NAT network configuration tutorial Updated: March 4, 2020 | Category: Virtualization Several days ago, I hit an interesting problem slash snag. Well, more sort of an operational challenge that reinforced my liking for VirtualBox. Namely, I wanted to setup a small private network with several virtual machines. One machine would be a server, and others would be clients running agent software and reporting to the server. Sounds simple. Except all my NAT-ed machines were getting the same IPaddress: 10.0.2.15.
Indeed, if you're using the most basic VM setup - your machines use a single NAT adapter, and as it turns out, each machine gets the exact same IP address, even if they are running in parallel. This means you can't really have a network. Well, not this way. But there is a way. We've talked about VirtualBox network & sharing at quite some length in the past, and I'd like to show you a few more network-relatedtricks. After me.
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Peppermint 10 - Too spicy for my desktop Updated: March 2, 2020 | Category: Linux Time to Linux. With a fresh, hale air of shellshocked optimism about it. Hello? Peppermint! The namesake operating system is an Ubuntu-based flavor of Linux, clad in Xfce and meant to be friendly. At the time of writing, all was jolly, but as it happens, today, I noticed the official page throws an out-of-date certificate error, so no direct link. Not the best start either, but the stuff you're about to read has been collected and compiled in the last few weeks. Anyway, recently, my Linux compass has been pointing off. Not quite where it ought. Sad face. And yet, somehow, I find myself doing the tests again, trying to get the chakras all sorted and buffed. Let's see what Peppermint 10 can do. As always, the guinea pig is the eight-boot Lenovo G50 machine, with its assorted mess of Windows and Linux instances. Onward.Read more ...
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