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…
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Ubuntu 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.
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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…
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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….
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Great first game for the Trojans. Coming out winners against Bristol Apache 20 points to 12. Great start to the season.
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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…
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Debian Promotion In an effort to help promote the Debian Operating system, I had a look for some suitable presentations. It seems, that the last one produced was back in 2013, others are not in English. which is understandable as Debian has a world wide development community. I decided to create my own. Started with…
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Torbay Trojans Vs Bristol Apache 14th April 2019 Foxhole Community Field SFC 2 West The 2019 football season gets underway with the Trojans playting their first game against Bristol Apache. The Trojans have home field advantage Game takes place on 14th April 2019 with a 14:00 kick off.
Continue readingToriOS Testing 1.5 Released part 2
I spent part of this afternoon installing ToriOS 1.5 on a netbook, with the view that having usedg the OBI installer software I could write instructions for the ToriOS manual which is my main project. However in order to write the manual you need to have access to the software or system you’re writing…
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