Regular readers of this blog will note I posted about the ham fisted decision of the Ubuntu world to force in the “O” versions of Linux Libertine fonts instead of the “G” versions which come bundled by default with LibreOffice. Some of my fellow authors and people I “know” on-line asked me to kick the tires on OpenOffice. I had a Ubuntu 18.04 Mate minimal VM set up so I decided to kick the tires. … Some LibreOffice and OpenOffice DifferencesRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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OpenSUSE Leap 15.1
At some point I will learn to not get into conversations with people who are either new to programming or have done only one thing all of their lives. One such person suggested I should use OpenSUSE Leap for my Linux desktop. What they knew not was that I used to use SuSE Linux back when we only had dial-up Internet and the entire distro came shipped on a box of CDs. The one thing … OpenSUSE Leap 15.1Read more
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Secret to Fixing Virtualbox VM ISO
If you haven’t done it yet, you will. Setting up many VMs for testing or development will make you happy click past the ISO choice when you click start. Then startup fails because you have no media. Most people cuss, delete the new VM entry, then start again from scratch, going slower this time. You don’t have to. Choose the Empty CD icon. Click the down carrot next to the CD image. Select “Choose … Secret to Fixing Virtualbox VM ISORead more
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Thank You For Your Future Abandonware
Few things honk me off quite as much as abandonware, especially when something good is abandoned. Microsoft could abandon everything they make and I would not care, none of it is a quality product. Other things really hurt. You are reading this because there was yet another Qt question on the Qt mailing list from yet another person creating yet another glorified text editor/crippled word processor. I think this one was supposed to support markup … Thank You For Your Future AbandonwareRead more
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KDE Neon – Ubuntu – Will Not Boot Properly After Kernel 5.3.0 Upgrade
So, late on Friday you are typing away and see the little blue dot from the Software Updater built into KDE Neon. Maybe you are running Ubuntu and saw a message. Doesn’t matter how you made the decision to install updates late on a Friday, you are now screwed. Yeah. I know your pain. Why do you think I’m writing this post? I did this exact thing. I know better than install anything pushed out … KDE Neon – Ubuntu – Will Not Boot Properly After Kernel 5.3.0 UpgradeRead more