How To Get Text from an Image Only PDF File Using Linux
Reading Time: < 1 minute How to use free software in Linux to convert image-only PDF files to text.
Continue reading →Reading Time: < 1 minute How to use free software in Linux to convert image-only PDF files to text.
Continue reading →Reading Time: < 1 minute Update: It’s now March 12, 2:30 pm in Guam and the SSL issue has been resolved! An hour ago I went back to the control panel and was allowed to enable the free SSL certificate option. 🙂 It’s March 11, 8:20 AM Guam time, and I am still having problems with SSL since March 8th. The hosting company of this website, Ipage, changed their policy for providing me a free … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a while since I posted anything related to PC on this website. I love to share useful information and I think some visitors to this website will appreciate this. For a little more than two years I had been using a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop to update this website. It has a Pentium CPU, 4 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM. Some websites such as Facebook loaded very very slowly … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes Article first published on Aug. 29, 2015. One of the hard disks on my Desktop PC failed (probably due to heat), the one with all my data which was the Linux /home partition. To make matters worse, after buying a new HDD and installing Fedora Linux, by mistake during the installation process I deleted the main backup of that data which was on the second hard disk!! I could only … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes My Pantheon Desktop on Fedora Updated January 18, 2018. I first wrote this article for Fedora 25 but it works for later versions of Fedora as well. I’m currently using Fedora 27. I read on a blog that the Pantheon Desktop was available for Fedora, and that it was a simple GUI that imitated the Mac OS interface. This is what I did to install it: 1. After logging into … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute Moving jamesjpn.net from Bluehost hosting to Ipage hosting.
Continue reading →Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 15 I went to help my friend George with his PC problems. His Windows 7 PC would start with a multitude of error messages, and no programs would run! Windows update would not work, the antivirus software would not update or scan a drive when prompted to, and browsing to any website with an https protocol would generate a security certificate error! And even when I accepted the … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes On February 20th for some reason or another after using a utility to clean up this website from junk code, each and every page and post was deleted! Whether it was a bug in the utility, or perhaps a malicious attack by a hacker, I cannot say. I was able to restore most of the pages and posts from a backup file, but I lost several days work, 4 posts … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had been using Fedora version 20 for most of year 2014. Fedora 21 was a welcome change for a few reasons. I didn’t need to install the Nvidia video card driver. In Fedora 20 without this driver, the GPU fan would spin at top speed and was really noisy. With the driver the spinning would slow down just moments before the login screen would pop up. But with Fedora … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 3 minutes A photo of the October 2014 model of Asus Memo Pad 7 taken with its front camera – a selfie of itself that shows the selfie of itself! I gave my Google Nexus 7 (2012) Tablet to my wife so she could use it while in America for our daily Skype visits. I searched for a new tablet that had all the same features as the Nexus 7 2013 model … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes This website and 8 other websites on the server were going off line from time to time. Upon investigation I found all the PHP files of the WordPress installation were deleted! At first I thought a hacker deleted the files. I re-installed the WordPress installation, the theme and all the plugins (a whole day’s work for 9 websites!) but a few weeks later the sites went down again. All the … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes For those of you who have been following my Linux posts, you know that I have been a Fedora user since February of 2005 with Fedora Core 3. I tried Ubuntu from time to time but always had problems. However in the middle of last year 2013 I moved to Ubuntu based Linux Mint 15 preferring it over Fedora 19. For some reason I couldn’t figure out the Fedora 19 … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute In spite of the fact there are a lot of tips on the Internet about how to protect your PC privacy and security, after you watch this terrific presentation from tech researcher and journalist Jacob Appelbaum, you might want to change your policy to either not care who knows anything about what you do, or not touching a PC, cell phone, or ANY kind of electronic means of communication again! … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute My goal was to use WordPress to create a page of images from a category so that I could continue to add more posts to the category and have the page update itself automatically. In order words, I hoped to imitate this HTML page http://www.deeptruths.com/posters/posters.html using a WordPress plugin to avoid all manuel HTML coding hassel. I did it using two plugins: Widgets on Pages and Ultimate Posts Widget I … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Sunday, June 9, I bought a really great mobile device called “Nexus 7” at a very reasonable price, a little less than $200. Nexus 7 is a Google Android tablet PC. I thought to get a Smartphone but because Smartphones require a monthly charge for Internet usage, and because Nexus 7 can connect to the Internet with WIFI, I decided to go with the Google Android Nexus 7 instead. … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever received an email from anyone offering you millions of dollars if you would only contact them and work out the details of the transaction? I sure have, scores of times! Here’s what came in just today: Are you alive or dead? The reason for this question is that we received an email from Mr. John Green. He said that you are dead and you have given him … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute Following instructions from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum I used yum to update from Fedora 17 to 18 su -c ‘yum update yum’ su -c ‘yum clean all’ su -c ‘yum –releasever=18 –disableplugin=presto distro-sync’ su -c ‘rpm –rebuilddb’ But afterward my LDXE Desktop was slower to start and displayed an error message: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Moreover, the shutdown menu showed only Logout and Cancel. It was missing the … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 3 minutes On January 5th and the 16th, I transformed 2 messed up Windows XP PCs into fast and stable Linux machines. On the first one, I installed Fedora 16, and the second, the latest Linus Mint 14 “Nadia.” In both cases I backed up the friend’s documents to another media, installed Linux, and restored all the documents and Desktop files to the newly created home user partition. A local friend’s Windows … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well, I’m back again to my beloved Fedora Linux. Fedora 18 Beta was not easy to install but is working fine after a few hours of tweaking. I started with LXDE as my default desktop environment. LXDE is lacking in some graphic configuration settings, but after logging into Gnome 3 I was able to configure things I could not configure in LXDE. A few days later I installed KDE and … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes I may be leaving Fedora Linux for good this time. Fedora 17’s added “features” were not a plus for me. Moreover, things that worked fine before became quirky. For example, switching to Japanese input using Ibus required me to press Ctrl + Space 3 or 4 times to make it work. Linux Mint Debian works instantly and gives me the added feature of merely pressing the Hankaku key (on Japanese … Continue reading →