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  • Flickr uploaders and downloaders

    So, I’m moving some of my Flickr photos from an older account into a new one. This means I have to download all the existing photos, and then upload them again on the new account. For downloading, go and look on the internet for Flickr Downloadr, which is cross platform through Mono for Linux as…

  • Switching Google accounts

    Just to make my life more complex (hopefully simpler in future) I have decided all my email accounts will consist of three Google accounts, classified as low, medium and high priority. This involves two completely new gmail accounts and one existing one. At the moment I am working on switching over my default email account…

  • Qgis testing

    Since my last post it seems fair to say that Qgis is like a lot of open source projects a largely community effort. There may be some people that are paid but in reality a lot of contributions are voluntary. I shouldn’t be too demanding with issues because they are working to a deadline at…

  • Debian vs Xubuntu: The ideal Qgis VM production environment

    So having discovered a bug in the Qgis composer as the reason my homebuilt Qgis VMs crash and not any other reason, this idea of building from source has actually been not such a bad thing at all and has left me with something that actually works all in one VM and one that is…

  • Building Qgis from source code

    UPDATE 2: Well in spite of my comments as below, it seems I have discovered a new bug in version 2.18 LTS of Qgis as well as the home built master with the composer crashing the software when attempting to render a map. It may well be that there is a bug in this master,…

  • How to change the account order in Thunderbird

    Thunderbird doesn’t provide a user interface for changing the order of accounts in the left hand pane, but Config Editor can be used to change it. See the guide here In my case I have 11 accounts listed including the two special ones, so basically 9 email accounts. I expect to tidy all that up…

  • Linux is still miles better than Windows any day

    My Windows PC doesn’t even get turned on that much now. It is only for a few holdout applications like the cameras and IrfanView that I really need it for. At the moment I am using it to author some of the maps, but that isn’t happening all of the time. It can cope with…

  • Fix for Qgis unable to open lots of aerial images on Linux editions

    After some forethought the lovely Qgis people have come up with the issue being a limit on the number of open files. This is a deliberate security feature designed into Linux. Fortunately it is not, as was first alleged, an architectural limitation of Linux. I have used the prlimit command with –nofile to increase the…

  • Artful release date set for 19 October

    So the date for the Artful release (17.10) of Xubuntu has been set for 19 October, about eight weeks away. I have been running it on all three of my Linux computers for several months and have noticed only a few minor issues.  Mainly the issues boiled down to: In a number of cases I…

  • The joys of running development software

    Obviously I’m having a bit of fun with a GNU/Hurd VM and the Free BSD one was to see if I could get Qgis running on a different platform other than Linux. This ultimately has failed because I could not map the network share from MainPC. The Win98 VM is not running Windows 98 because…

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