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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Encryption of Draft Messages
If you have been following my posts on Public Keys and email then the following my be of interest. To add more security to your system you can encrypt any messages saved in your Drafts folder (Thunderbird). As per This is perhaps useful as some messages such as those on IMAP mail servers will…
Continue readingUbuntu 18.04 part 2
I am still having issues with Ubuntu 18.04. I tried installing on a netbook and had the same issue. It seems to stop when booting. So not sure if this is an issue with the ISO file, or something else. Anyway Lubuntu works fine, so I can go with that for now. Oddly if…
Continue readingUbuntu 18.04 and SysRq magic
My system is now meant to dual boot between Mint 17.3 and Ubuntu 18.04. However my Ubuntu install seems to stop during boot (it does however go in to recovery mode, including a GUI with few issues). So it could be a driver issue, it was suggested on IRC it could be a graphics…
Continue readingToriOS Daily Build 1
Anyone following this blog will know that I am involved with ToriOS. ToriOS is a GNU / Linux based system designed for low power and low memory systems, hence support for non-PAE hardware. ToriOS is currently in the late stages of development, and we would like more testers for the daily build iso files. More…
Continue readingLibreoffice 4.x Thesaurus fix
I was reading up on these Level 2 functional skills tests. Just to find out what they involved. Part of this seems to test the user can use a thesaurus. I decided to see if the thesaurus in Libreoffice worked. As I am using Linux Mint 17.2 then the version I am using is Version:…
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