Welcome to my website. I am currently running Code Club at Paignton Library and Information Centre. I am looking for work, hopefully in a education support type role. I would like to use my IT skills but general support is fine. However having specialist interest may be useful to people. You can see from my…
Continue readingLibreoffice – images
Another issue with Libreoffice 5.2 on Debian is that sometimes images are not displayed within a document. They are there, but are replaced with what appears to be a placeholder. To fix this goto Tools menu and select Options. Then go to Libreoffice-Writer -> View From here make sure that Images and Objects is…
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Looking at Libreoffice 5.2 for Debian 9. It seems the application menu font sizes are much smaller than they should ideally be. This is illustrated further if we compare Libreoffice with GIMP (Graphics package). You can see from here that there is a difference between the two. I have, through some searching solved the…
Continue readingDebian Promotion 2
My project to create a presentation for Debian seems to be going really well. While I am using Overleaf for this, I can compile from the command line in the usual way as well as using TeXStudio to create a pdf. Shows the power and flexibility of LaTeX for publishing. I have received lots…
Continue readingUbuntu 19.04 released today
Ubuntu 19.04 released today Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) should be out Today. More information and download links on the Ubuntu Website. Ubuntu 19.04 comes with new features and fixes to previous releases. You can find a link to the Release notes here.
Continue readingCode Club 20/4/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 20th April 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding. More basic info on our Code Club page. Link to the Code Club Projects page. Scratch Website Python Website W3 Schools Trinket Website If you have an exiting Scratch account you are welcome to use that. Please…
Continue readingDVD burning with Brasero
Carrying on from the post on creating a DVD iso file with DeVeDe. This follow up will look at how to take the iso file and burn this to a record-able dvd. It is assumed YOU have tested the ISO to ensure the structure works as you expect, Using Debian 9 and LXDE Desktop….
Continue readingTrojans v Apache write up
Great first game for the Trojans. Coming out winners against Bristol Apache 20 points to 12. Great start to the season.
Continue readingDVD Authoring with DeVeDeNG
I have been looking for a program to help create DVDs from movie files. I have found a program via the Debian users mailing list called DeVeDe which is really easy to use. Installing devede and other related packages. Firstly you need to install the software with apt install devede In general I use…
Continue readingTech Jam Write up 13/4/2019
The South Devon Tech Jam was very quiet, however both Felix from Encounters Arts and Sue From Sense Abilities attended and we had a really good discussion with regard to the project we are helping them with. More information can be found here. Sue also gave some very valuable input in to this, as…
Continue readingSouth Devon Tech Jam – April 2019
South Devon Tech Jam – April 2019 South Devon Tech Jam, is a small group of enthusiasts, who organise monthly informal and friendly sessions for anyone interested in technology, regardless of age or ability. We hope those who attend our sessions will enjoy learning new skills and sharing experiences about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and…
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