How To Get Editable Text From A Book Or PDF Files of Images
This article is mainly for webmasters and users of the Linux Operating system who want to post articles from books or hard to read PDF files.
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How To Get Text from an Image Only PDF File Using Linux
How to use free software in Linux to convert image-only PDF files to text.
Hardware Upgrade from a Dell Inspiron 1545 to a Dell Latitude 7480
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… Read More »Hardware Upgrade from a Dell Inspiron 1545 to a Dell Latitude 7480
Computer Jokes
MICROSOFT NEWS RELEASE: It has come to our attention that a few copies of the Georgia edition Computer Jokes MICROSOFT NEWS RELEASE: It has come… Read More »Computer Jokes
How to Install Elementary Pantheon Desktop on Fedora
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… Read More »How to Install Elementary Pantheon Desktop on Fedora
Upgrade to Fedora Linux 21
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… Read More »Upgrade to Fedora Linux 21
Move from Linux Mint 16 to Fedora 20
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… Read More »Move from Linux Mint 16 to Fedora 20
Fixing LDXE Shutdown Menu after Upgrading from Fedora 17 to 18
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… Read More »Fixing LDXE Shutdown Menu after Upgrading from Fedora 17 to 18
Helping friends migrate from Windows to Linux
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… Read More »Helping friends migrate from Windows to Linux
Move to Fedora 18 Beta from Linux Mint Debian
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… Read More »Move to Fedora 18 Beta from Linux Mint Debian
Move from Fedora 17 to Linux Mint Debian
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 keyboards).Read More »Move from Fedora 17 to Linux Mint Debian
Linux: How to make audio CDs from YouTube videos
This morning I was asked if I could extract the audio tracks of certain Youtube videos and make a compilation of them on an audio CD in order to listen to them using a CD player. “I don’t know how or if it’s even possible,” I replied. “Come on!” she said, “I know you can figure it out if you tried.” And so I was faced with another technical challenge. But thanks to the ease of looking up information from the Internet, in only minutes I learned I have all the tools I needed on my Fedora 17 Linux PC.
You might wonder, “Why would anybody want to do that?” In her case, it was to be able to listen to some guy’s seminar without using a PC. He was just standing there talking. What he had to say was much more important than watching him say it. Read More »Linux: How to make audio CDs from YouTube videos
BTRFS Blues and Backup Basics
This post is aimed at Linux users, and especially at techies.
When Fedora 16 went gold on Nov. 8, 2011, I immediately installed it and used the new BTRFS for my /home partition. I read that BTRFS may become the default file system in Fedora and was under the assumption that BTRFS now had a good file system tool to fix errors. It turned out that I created an accident waiting to happen!Read More »BTRFS Blues and Backup Basics
How to secure Grub 2 in Fedora Linux
This is an technical article that only Linux users would understand and appreciate. I like to secure the Grub boot loader to make it harder… Read More »How to secure Grub 2 in Fedora Linux
Using mencoder to convert a .VOB file to a .flv file
I’ve been working for a Japanese NPO, Leap High 28. Today I was asked by the NPO Chairperson, Yoko Ishikawa to upload a DVD file… Read More »Using mencoder to convert a .VOB file to a .flv file
Fedora 16 review
November 9: After getting sick of Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, I tried Linux Mint Debian for a while because it has the Gnome 2… Read More »Fedora 16 review
Back to Linux Mint Debian
I had been using Fedora 15 for about 5 weeks since it came out at the beginning of June, but now again I switched back… Read More »Back to Linux Mint Debian
Fedora 15 review
In a post I wrote on February 7, I said I moved from Fedora 14 to Linux Mint Debian. Well, less than two weeks later… Read More »Fedora 15 review
Adventure Setting Up a Home Web Server
Following instructions from a couple web articles, I learned to set up my own home web server!
Moved from Fedora 14 to Linux Mint Debian
The other day I discovered that Linux Mint recently came out with a Debian edition with features that are still lacking in Ubuntu. One of the main features that caught my interest is the ability to install Linux Mint Debian on a PC with multiple hard disk drives. It has been my practice for a few years now to have the /home partition on a second hard disk, and to use the first hard disk for the OS on a 40 gigabyte first partition and the second partition as a backup of the /home directory on the second drive. Ubuntu’s installer still does not recognize more than one hard disk during installation.
Other features of Linux Mint Debian that interested me are said to be:
- Better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash) — This is something Fedora still has a problem with. Sometimes the microphone for Skype works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
- Performance boost using cgroup, the notorious 4 lines of code better than 200 in user-space.
- The fact it is a “rolling distribution”, meaning there will be no major releases every 6 months, just one constant upgrade over time. This means I won’t have to do a clean re-install twice a year as I did with Fedora..