When you’re connecting to a remote system, there is a chance that multiple displays are connected to the system. Thankfully NoMachine gives us a quick and easy option to switch between them, and even see all displays on our screen at the same time to get an overview of what’s where. Here’s how: Further Reading
Funny story: I had to upgrade one of my Mac Minis in a data centre. The poor thing was still running Sierra, and I thought perhaps it was time to upgrade to High Sierra. My software of choice did work fine, but a few other bits did not, plus I didn’t have Dark Mode natively, … Read more
Wrap is a super useful 3D tool that once was known as the Russian 3D Scanner. I’ve always wanted to install it on my Fedora machine since it has a native Linux binary for download. My first attempt failed, but using the following packages, I got it working on both Fedora 42 and Ubuntu (via … Read more
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
