I like working in the “lower case” font on the Commodores. That way a SHIFT creates a capital letter, all other letters are lower case, it looks a little better and feels more like using a modern computer (at least to me). When I print out a string, I may from time to time want … Read more
BASIC gives us two CHR$ codes that let us enable or disable printing characters in inverted form on the screen. These codes are The above screenshot was made with the following line: print chr$(18);” inverse “;chr$(146);” and back to regular”
I had an issue with a Mac Mini Server model from 2012. It’s been working great for over a decade, we’ve been though a lot together, he’s running Fedora now and still has an entire drive with macOS Catalina. I regularly back him up with CloneZilla, for which I boot from a USB stick and … Read more
Frequently a harmless looking Fedora update breaks vital functionality. It’s part of the “fun” working with oh so stable and reliable Linux Desktop distributions… or is it? Regardless, we may from time to time have to check which exact package in the previous update broke some functionality, and of course people like me have no … Read more
I wanted to access several EXT4 partitions on a dual-boot Fedora/Windows system from Windows to share storage space. One option I came across was to boot into Windows, then use WSL to mount these partitions and use them as if they were native drives. Did it work? I’ll leave that for another article (it got … Read more
I’ve recently dug out a copy of Secret Files: Tunguska from Steam, and by default it stretches across my 16:9 monitor. That looks terrible because the game was made with 4:3 monitors in mind, which means the default settings stretch out the game making everything look distorted. There’s no built-in option to disable this. While … Read more
FTP is a cheap and easy way to communicate with a headless server. While I’m happily using FileZilla Server on several other systems, there’s no pre-built binary for Fedora available. However, both ProFTP and VSFTP are simple FTP servers that can be installed from the command line and are ready to rock in seconds. Let’s … Read more
As much as I enjoy KDE Plasma, it can be a cringeworthy buggy mess of trash sometimes. Not most of the time, but certainly when it doesn’t work. Recently its plasmashell component started crashing on startup in an endless loop, rendering my system’s usability useless. There was nothing I could do from the GUI to … Read more