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All the articles I've posted.
Linux OCR
I needed to pull a lot of text from some images, and that called for OCR - Optical Character Recognition. It looks like the goto package for this is tesser
Gnome Files Sort Order
When I browse to open a file, I'm always frustrated about the order in which things appear. I don't like the whole lowercase before uppercase, and having t
LUKS Password Problems
After setting up a new fully encrypted system, I found that I couldn't unlock the disk encryption with the password I know I set correctly. I added a new p
Cloning with GParted
Updated:I've not had to do this before, but today I needed to replace my SSD with a bigger SSD and would really like not to have to reinstall from scratch. GParted
Setting up Baofeng UV-5R for PMR 446
Updated:Yes, it is illegal so don’t press the transmit button 1. Reset the radio to factory defaults Goto Menu 40 (Press Menu followed by 40 or use up down to scro
LUKS Encryption and LVM
Setting up an encrypted boot volume is pretty straight forward at the time of installation. But what we wanted to do was add additional encrypted volumes e
Humidity and Temperature Monitoring
Updated:With the temperature the past few weeks I thought I'd setup a means of monitoring it to trigger alerts in Grafana or Incinga2 by using a Raspberry Pi to co
Windows and NFS Shares
Considering I've been a long term user of Windows - far longer than Linux, I really find myself detesting the platform with a vengeance. All I wanted to do
Kindle PaperWhite 1
I've got a few Kindles that the wife an I use. The one I use primarily is a PaperWhite 1 - it's been used almost every day for many years. The one thing I
Caching LDAP with sssd
Updated:Most of the equipment we use is in house wired workstations with a few remote users on a BYOD type setup. What I wanted to try to bring in was a cached aut