I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as…
Read moreElementary and Onedrive
This seems to have stopped working, here are my notes. I think I am using onedrive-d, but here are my notes. …
Read moreRemote Desktop & Elementary OS
Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …
Read moreElementary OS & Printing
I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
Read moreUpgrading Elementary OS
I needed to update my Elementary build, by quite a bit. Sadly it still needs a re-install via a USB, and so some of the notes on Installing elementary OS using a USB remains useful. I am upgrading from Freya to Loki (0.4.x) , will version 1.0 be Odin.
Read moreCairo Clock
I fancied a desktop clock for my elementary builds. I found cairo-clock, which has a bunch of default themes and a bunch of add-ons also. It can be obtained via the package managers; I found this, as the package documentation.
Read morenotify-send
While installing docker, I decided I needed to write some notifications to ensure the configuration works. See Docker. I started with a TCL/TK script, which these days looks a bit old school, and writing the packer was (& remains) difficult. Virtualbox reports its status on Ubuntu via a very pretty interface, prettier than Apple script…
Read moreGdrive & Linux
My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…
Read moreixquick and midori
I am playing with Elementary and have decided I want to add ixquick to Midori’s search engine list. Here’s how I did it.
Read moreInstalling Elementary OS using a USB
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the…
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