Updating LibreOffice has its own pecularities. You can set it to automatic, but that may or may not work. Not on my LinuxMint system. You can make it warn you when updates are available, so you can manually download and install these. In my case: install the appropriate deb packages., which takes a wee bit […]
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Secure & easy messaging
I never really got on Facebook, I deleted my LinkedIn account long ago and recently I dumped Twitter too. But I do like WhatsApp-like messaging. If only it was not for WhatsApp… Even Dutch intelligence service AIVD says we should not use it. Read my comparison between WhatsApp and Telegram (in Dutch, the mother of […]
AMD Radeon Driver Update
Using a value graphic card and dual value monitors, I should not beg for much. I know. But having my display torn and messed up regularly, only working with a couple of windows open, is too much the other way. My specs are an AMD Radeon HD 5450 PCIe graphic card with 1GB of memory, […]
Simple OCR
Sometimes you need to work with texts that only come printed. Or you may want to insert parts of a book into a document. This is where OCR comes in: scanning a printed text and converting it into an editable text file. Of course there is proprietary software to do the job, e.g. ABBYY FineReader. […]
OpenStreetMap & Garmin
This summer I tested my new Garmin eTrex 20x handheld GPS. It comes at just under € 200 and already has some (basic) maps on board. However, since I really like the OpenStreetMap project, I installed these on the MicroSD card. Earlier I have written about the pleasures of OpenStreetMap (in Dutch). So far I […]
PDF forms and Linux
Buying or booking online may require filling in a PDF form and sending it back. But how to fill it in if you are not on Windows using Adobe software? Actually that is a problem, but there is a workaround. The PDF form specification is kept carefully hidden by Adobe. So there are no open-source […]
Windows X privacy
Er is nogal wat te doen rond de privacy van gebruikers van Windows 10 (zie mijn voorgaande bericht). Microsoft heeft daarop geantwoord en dat is positief. Ze proberen nu toch te luisteren naar klanten en dat is wel anders geweest. Maar beantwoorden ze de kritiek nu ook werkelijk? Het lijkt inmiddels middeleeuwse theologie te worden: […]
Apt-get Error Code 100
If the title does not make any sense to you, you do not have a problem. Since nothing is broken, there is no need to fix anything. Please skip the following. But do read on if you, like me, while trying to update the software on your computer, got an error message the kind of […]
Windows X
Windows 10 kwam twee dagen geleden offieel uit in Nederland. Als ‘gratis’ update. Het lijkt erop dat gebruikers relatief blij moeten zijn met diverse vernieuwingen maar vooral absoluut moeten vrezen voor hun privacy. Daarover hark ik hier wat informatie bij elkaar. Kort gezegd slaat Microsoft verder de weg in van een nog verdergaande vendor lock-in, […]
FlexNet boot issue
While updating grub2 recently an error message ran across my terminal saying something about ‘FlexNet’ saving data to ‘Sector 32’, and grub2 taking issue with that. Although my system did boot correctly afterwards (grub2 obviously found a workaround while the legacy grub would simply halt), I do not like software, other than my bootloader, writing […]