I find Mint useful even being an experienced Linux user at this point with some command line and scripting chops. I generally prefer Debian and...
This doesn't surprise me. And meanwhile, I've been writing and copying 100s of gigabytes in 1000s of files to NTFS volumes with Debian and after...
Is the main drive GPT or MBR? If the drive is GPT and the BIOS is set to boot UEFI, it won't boot an MBR flash drive. There is a BIOS option to...
Times and data amounts are not exact. I'm being subjective, not doing a structured performance evaluation. Systems used were Debian 9 and Windows...
Following up on my previous post on finding that Linux worked far better than either Windows 7 or 10 on the Tangent Mini PC I'm writing this on,...
2 hours won't make any difference but being on the wrong date will, it will break ssl certificates and your browser will give you error messages....
Linux can be imaged from the command line with the dd command. The usual way to do it is to use a compound command where dd pipes into tar and...
Epson printers have non-removable print heads and are a pain to fix. In many cases they can't be fixed. Canon print heads are mostly removable and...
I haven't been posting much on Wilders the last couple of years for the simple reason that the interest I formerly had in computers and software...
uBlock + uMatrix is a good combo. uBlock has a lovely right click block element option which can be used to selectively block elements on a...
I've used it since version 1.0 when it was freeware. They are generous with giveaways so I always use the pro version. I've done everything that...
There are times when you want a VPN connection all to your self. I pay for several VPN services and several VPSes. If you need to just have a...
I use several for different purposes including my own DNS black hole server set up on a VPS. The one I don't use is the one from my ISP. Not that...
I do use Vivaldi as well as Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, Seamonkey and the new Opera. None of them do what Opera 12 does. There isn't any one...
I'm not going to stop anytime soon. My use of it is minimal but regular. I'm using far older software as well. I have some eeprom burning projects...
Still using it. It's role has shifted a bit but it still works well in a lot places and it's incompatibilities are even useful at times. The code...
I keep picking up abandoned printers that cost hundreds of dollars new and were trashed by their previous owners for minor malfunctions. HP...
One simple trick is to start hitting 0 just like you would to get through to a human being if you called a service number for a corporation and...
The end of Windows 7 support will affect me just about as much as the end of Xp support, not at all except I won't be bothered anymore by the...
And here I am still using Xp and Opera 12 to post on Wilders. At this point it could be a minor form of rebellion. I just keep using software that...
This VPN has pretty good ratings by The Privacy Guy for as much as that means. I've found that both the VPN and the browser extension are useful...
There are some local ones still but they are few. Where I live the one that provides good bandwidth is notoriously unreliable and I go for a...
They use the public internet for the same reason they use the public highways. The cost of a private network that would satisfy their needs would...
DD should have worked. It doesn't compress and does direct byte by byte imaging. The Raspberry Pi uses a different partitioning scheme and I can...
The Raspberry PI 2 uses a lot less power than the Raspberry PI B and B+. I use a Raspberry PI 2 as a forwarding DNS server with Unbound connected...
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