Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux
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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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Raspberry Pi [2]
Well now that I have this thing I have to find a use for it, and that use is proving to be best made out in hooking it to the TV and playing live Youtube content. It does however turn out able to play some existing video content, provided that you use the built in…
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Optimising Gimp’s temporary and swap storage
Whilst Gimp is a great piece of software, its default behaviour is to put temporary files into the home drive. If for some reason it needs to cache to disk it can become very slow. For me, I thought that creating my swap partition on the SSD would address this. However Gimp doesn’t make use…