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Backup software / recap
About eight years ago I thought I was building a really special PC with a Intel DG41RQ mainboard, Celeron E3300 CPU and 2 GB of RAM. The article series started here: https://enzedtech.blogspot.com/2010/10/rebuilding-my-pc-1.html Unfortunately I outgrew that computer pretty quickly because it could only take 4 GB of RAM in total and therefore became pretty slow…
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PulseAudio settings in Debian
As everyone knows, PulseAudio is pretty common in Linux for controlling audio levels. It was written by the same guy who wrote systemd. You can make up whatever politics you want around that. PulseAudio has a configuration file called daemon.conf that is located either in ~/.config/pulse or in /etc/pulse . An important setting is flat-volumes…
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General update
Since last time I have been doing a lot of setup stuff with various computers. Win10PC is gradually getting set up, the only stuff I really need it for is a handful of things like downloading gigabytes of maps or whatever, scanning, ripping DVDs and bulk Irfanview stuff so it isn’t moving along very fast…
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Windows sucks part 139 [2]
So I am changing my Windows 10 box from being inside a desktop chassis into the Antec Mini-ITX chassis with a Gigabyte GA-E350 WIN8 mainboard and as I have no real need of this computer chassis for any other purpose for the foreseeable future this is going back to being what the Windows 10 computer…
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Windows sucks part 139
Well I have written numerous times about how bad Windows is but Microsoft just keeps on proving me correct over and over. Windows 10 is probably the worst version of Windows ever released, and that’s even without taking into account MS trying to force everyone to convert to it. I didn’t get my edition of…
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NFS on Linux
When it comes to file sharing on Linux, you have two main choices. NFS is the one that is intrinsic to Unix environments, that have been carried down into Linux by convention. It has been around for a long time and is quite stable and reliable. Since the development of Samba, you also have SMB…
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Computing resources optimisation [1C]
Since last considering this issue it has been decided to stick with just four computers on the desk. Email and some web browsing can be continued on mainpc as long as there is not too much memory used. Some of the browser stuff will get moved to mediapc as well as image viewing for maps.…
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Computing resources optimisation [1B]
Since yesterday a few issues have cropped up so I am rethinking some stuff. The Raspberry Pi has proved unable to cope with a particular feed I gave it, so reluctantly I am going to have to stop using it as a media player. It can cope with standalone playback but live playback in a…
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Computing resources optimisation [1A]
After looking at the best use of the computing resources I have the following changes are being implemented: Mediapc taken down from 12 GB RAM to 4 GB RAM The 8 GB from mediapc put into mainpc as they have similar memory specs, this gives mainpc a total of 32 GB. Mediapc manages just fine…
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Raspberry Pi [3]
Well after a bit more experimentation I found this thing called TboPlayer which is a GUI that is a frontend for OmxPlayer so it enables the Pi to do more user friendly media playback stuff. So Pi as media player looks even more feasible. Storage costs also vary, and if you can get by with…
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