About every fifth year the daily worker on Linux will need a major system upgrade. That is not a minor thing. After many happy years on LinuxMint with a KDE desktop environment I had to make a decision. Starting with LinuxMint 19 ‘Tara’ support for KDE has been dropped by the LinuxMintees. What to do? After […]
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Extracting sound from video
For various reasons people may want to extract the sound from a video file. To have that wondrous movie theme on your music player, or add it to your own video project. To use famous conversation lines elsewhere. To save your grandchild’s first attempts on talking for digital eternity. Etcetera. Well, that is all very […]
Multimedia en Linux
Om CDs, DVDs, mediastreams, gedownloade films of iets wat erop lijkt af te spelen, zegt iedereen dat je VLC, de VideoLAN mediaspeler, moet gebruiken. Want die draait vrijwel alles dat je ‘er naartoe gooit’. Dat is zeker waar, maar op een Linux-systeem moet je wel wat extra werk doen voordat het helemaal goed draait. Om […]
Display stress
Until now I am still with LinuxMint 17.3, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (‘Trusty’). Although this platform will be supported until 2019, increasingly applications start to get stuck, since newer versions require a newer Ubuntu version. But… upgrading was a major problem. Whatever I tried, I could not get the screen resolutions for my dual […]
O, wacht… mijn wachtwoord…
De wereld is overvol van wachtwoorden, pincodes, inloggegevens, bsn-nummers, klantnummers en weet ik wat niet al. Ik droomde dat ik bij Sint Pieter kwam – en mijn pincode was vergeten… Ik moest natuurlijk eerst weer terug. Gelukkig zijn er handige en veilige hulpmiddelen om al die gegevens te bewaren en makkelijk toegankelijk te houden: wachtwoordbeheerders, […]
PDF editing revisited
In the past I have posted about PDF tools and handling PDF forms. On Linux you can do a lot without expensive proprietary software, but that may be a bit of a cumbersome job, also requiring commandline actions. Now I have come across a very nifty program which simply includes virtually all available tools in […]
Printing on Linux (revisited)
Sometimes one learns the hard way. In the past I reviewed my printer history and concluded with my happiness about my new HP LaserJet. But that has changed, simply because I misunderstood a few things. So, now I am back to the inkjet printer days of yonder with another new machine, a Canon PIXMA MX925 […]
Websurfen & Vivaldi
Laatste update: 10 mei 2018 – zie ook dit bericht Sinds mensenheugenis is Firefox mijn favoriete webbrowser. Nou ja, in elk geval al behoorlijk wat jaren. Draait prima van Windows tot Linux en zelfs mobiel, is uitgebreid op eigen smaak te brengen en heeft een hele berg nuttige extensies, niet in de laatste plaats voor je […]
Streaming on Linux
On mobile devices streaming media seems to be hot. Well, not on our smartphones or tablets. I always get the uncanny feeling anyone can track me while I am viewing or listening. Besides, these screens are so small and the sound is so tiny. But sometimes there is some need to stream audio or video […]
Sleep well
All Linux systems have a number of options built into their power management at kernel level. Unwary users – eg. like me – tend to neglect their meaning and use. But they are useful options though. Time to explain. Generally there are three options with varying levels of power saving: shutdown, hibernate and suspend. To […]