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  • General computing update – week 34, 2020.

     Since writing early July about about the need to replace the disks in mainpc I have finally progressed towards this stage by purchasing the first of two disks. As noted in the earlier post, this was prompted by an I/O failure of one of the disks that resulted in it dropping out of the RAID…

  • PDF Editors For Linux

    This post is brought to you by the new Blogger interface Google has forced on everyone! Which is dreadful! The only way I keep my sanity editing posts on Blogger is to create the post in a separate editor (LibreOffice Writer in this case) and then paste the completed article into Blogger. There is much…

  • General update week 30, 2020

    I wrote about a lot of fun getting a system to work with static IP addressing (it is running Debian 10 with LXQt). Since it was able to be made to statically configure its IP with no issues, I configured the other Debian10-LXQt system with a static configuration also. The second computer only has one…

  • Rsync Backup System [6]: Latest Progress / Using The Rsync Daemon

    Because of issues with Rsync over ssh I am looking into using the Rsync daemon instead. The commentary on that is below. Until I can get that working properly I am backing up each computer individually using its own removable drive bay. This can be achieved by changing the ownership of the backup folder on…

  • Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [3]

    Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [3]

    This is the third article in a series about problems with KDE leading to a reinstallation with LXQt. Both running on top of Debian 10. The computer concerned is running two NICs because it needs to access both networks that I have here. I have the main one based on a corporate wireless link from…