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Digitising Videos from an Old Camcorder
My family recently found an old "digital" camcorder, and we wanted to get the old videos (as far back as 2001!) off, to be able to view them from phones and share with other family members. Trouble is, despite the…
By lonm
How to activate hibernate in Kubuntu 20.04
First of all, hibernate is not recommended for SSDs. However, if you have a HDD disk installed on your system and you have created a SWAP partition on it with size double than the physical memory, RAM, of the system,…
By saidbakr
Minecraft Battle Dome of Sand, Project
The Sand Battle Dome is a current Player vs Player project. Sand Battle Dome in Development, still full of ocean water - DAY 1.…
By skythrusters
Unstable Property Ladder
I have recently had conversations about home ownership and mortgages. All it has really served me with is helping me realise just how much of a swindle it really all is.…
By lonm
The Online Meeting Axiom
Photo: 'Searching for Dawn' Copyright 2016 Frank J Casella - …The morning sun peeks through the trees behind a fence.
By fjcasella
Linux kernel so problematic on Acer Aspire A315-41G
Blog relocated to JJDP blog: https://jjdp.vivaldi.net/2021/04/17/linux-kernel-so-problematic-on-acer-aspire-a315-41g/
By petersontech
So it's been a year
It was an extraordinary beginning. My first day at Vivaldi - on March 16, 2020 - was not like any other first days I've experienced. I showered, shaved and got ready for work - yeah - but I didn't leave my house. I…
By torotime
Open Source Note Taking Apps
I try to find a good open-source replacement for the big closed source, online-only services like OneNote, Evernote and Simplenote. I've done this a few times in the past and wanted to check back in on the state of…
By lonm
A noisy check: part two
Looking back, it seems so obvious now. Why hadn't I done the one simple test that would have answered this problem ages ago? …
By Thomas Pike
E-mail Folders and what's wrong with them.
Recently I had a bit of a discussion with someone who was very proud of his elaborate email filing system, which made me remember the days way back when. We are talking 18 years ago, I had perfected my email folder…
By wildente
A noisy check: part one
This story begins from me wanting to be a good little sysadmin and make sure all our services are properly monitored. Netdata is a rather handy tool for monitoring servers. It can draw pretty graphs of all kinds of…
By Thomas Pike