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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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 to this website will appreciate this. For a little more than two years I had … Continue reading →
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 to our attention that a few copies of the Georgia edition of Windows 10 may … Continue reading →
How to Install Elementary Pantheon Desktop on Fedora
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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 … Continue reading →
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 to install the Nvidia video card driver. In Fedora 20 without this driver, the GPU … Continue reading →
Move from Linux Mint 16 to Fedora 20
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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 … Continue reading →
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 -c ‘yum –releasever=18 –disableplugin=presto distro-sync’ su -c ‘rpm –rebuilddb’ But afterward my LDXE Desktop was … Continue reading →
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 installed Fedora 16, and the second, the latest Linus Mint 14 “Nadia.” In both cases … Continue reading →
Move to Fedora 18 Beta from Linux Mint Debian
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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 … Continue reading →
Move from Fedora 17 to Linux Mint Debian
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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 … Continue reading →
Linux: How to make audio CDs from YouTube videos
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BTRFS Blues and Backup Basics
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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 for anybody but me to get root access to my PC by either a cold … Continue reading →
Using mencoder to convert a .VOB file to a .flv file
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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 to Help Japan 2011, a website we made together to raise support for the March … Continue reading →
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 desktop environment, my favourite to date. Linux Mint Debian ran very well but because there … Continue reading →
Back to Linux Mint Debian
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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 to Linux Mint Debian. Gnome 3 IMHO was too radical a departure from how I … Continue reading →
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 I moved back to Fedora 14. I’m familiar with the Fedora way of tweaking the … Continue reading →
Adventure Setting Up a Home Web Server
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Following instructions from a couple web articles, I learned to set up my own home web server!
Continue reading →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 … Continue reading →