Summary The best thing about using Linux is the convenience of having multiple virtual desktops for a single monitor. In both the Gnome and MATE desktops, a workspace can be dedicated to a set of tasks with windows arranged to your liking and no need to minimize them to work on another task. I will…
Summary This page separates out the task of adding a watermark to a photo from the longer Perl image manipulation page. There is also a work-around if you are having trouble adding a watermark to an image that is already rotated. Here is the way my watermark looks: Procedure #!/usr/bin/perl -w#2004-10 Kim Briggs#Abbreviated script to only put…
A collection of house projects I happen to have photos of. Some of them even documented before the Digital Age. I have annotated the pics to show what I was trying to do (touch one if you can’t see it). I’m not proud or embarrassed by the little projects. Maybe you will see something you can…
Summary After failing to get acceptable graphics when trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 on a Lenovo TS140, I had success after installing the PCIE 2.0 graphics card Nvidia GeForce 210. It’s been about a week. I seem to have a working solution with both sound and video coming out of the new video card’s HDMI…
Updated 2017-02, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Apache 2.4.18 and PHP 7.0.13. Go to the first page Apache2: Activating User Directories & Virtual Hosts and read the disclaimer. Thanks. Step 4 – Enable (Activate) PHP for User Directories There have been more than a couple searches leading here that are similar to “configure PHP virtual hosts”. There is a…
Updated 2017-02. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Apache 2.4.18, PHP 7.0.13, MySQL 5.7.17 Background These are my notes I use to get the MySQL server software setup on my development computer. I want to be able to work on the databases from the local computer as well as from other computers on a trusted LAN. MySQL Server…
Updated 2017-02, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Summary The purpose of this page is to introduce people new to linux to some programs I use for common tasks on my computer (sorry, no games). I include a list of programs to install beyond the default Ubuntu Linux distribution. Most of these notes would also apply to Debian GNU/linux, because Ubuntu…
Update 2017-02, Ubuntu 16.04. I still use this method for my home fileserver. Summary This page shows methods that can be used to partition a hard drive and add a second hard disk to a computer running Ubuntu linux. You MUST MAKE BACKUPS of any important files whenever you change the partitioning on a hard drive. You…