Random Bits from Boredom

Some Dell machines have a soundcard that is essentially wired up differently to how some software expects. This can be evident when using t...

With older machines we have the risk of unsupported software hitting compatib ility problems with each OS upgrade. A recent example of this...

VMWare Horizon 4.8 works well with Fedora but when your service forces you to move to a later version you will find Horizon client 4.9 and a...

After years of backing up files from various harddrives and various folders into new harddrivers and additional various folders, we inevitab...

The need for more storage is a never ending process but the processes for migrating your old disks to new has never been easier withe collec...

The original Herman Miller Aeron has been in the wild since 1994 and has been widely successful in both corporate and domestic office setti...

Linux cgroups ( control groups ) have been around for a long time providing varioius functions for resource management and the ability to s...

A Fedora 26 to Fedora 28 upgrade (with its 4.18.x kernel) broke VMware Player 12.5.7. However upgrading to the newer (14.x or 15.x) version...

One of the great benefits of Linux is that it can run on a whole host of legacy components and still perform well. Re-purposing an old Dell...

Bonding network interfaces for a laptop is a useful feature allowing you to keep the same IP as you switch between a ethernet or wifi connec...

There are numerous tutorials on how to resize/shrinking media but they typically advise using gparted for the task; whilst gparted is a gr...

After finally setting up Kodi to use a DAC mounted on Raspberry Pi for controlling/serving my music controlled by an IOS device, I re-disco...

There are a number of options to connect a Raspberry Pi to an stereo amplier but one option is to use a DAC hat card such as an IQAudio DAC ...

I have a RPi3 with an external USB hardddisk attached which appeared to be not to be spinning down although the setup (via hdparm was corre...

The Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI-S is a lens from the late 70s but shares its optical formula with its predecesors (pre-AI and AI) and successor (A...

ffmpeg video processing on an old linux/machine, like a i7 860, running Fedora26 can be painful if you only rely on the CPU. With a recent...

The 28mm f/2.8 AI-S is a well regarded lens from the early 1980s that is still available new today. But what's the point of this compar...

The old time manual Nikkors from circa 1977 had the designation of an AI lens and then sometime leading into 1981 the AI-S lenses replaced t...

A 200mm can be a useful focal length in the bag, albiet a less frequently used length. However the modern and autofocusing xx-200mm zooms a...

The circa 1980 Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI lens comes with a reputation for being flare resistant and reasonably sharp as well as being very lightw...