Linux Drevo Calibur v2 on Linux My impressions after a year of using the Drevo Calibur V2 mechanical keyboard, and a few fixes for using it on Linux
Computing Logitech Media Server migration Migrating an old Logitech Media Server from an ancient Centos 6 server to a Ubuntu 20.10 LTS container on Proxmox
Computing Claiming back space on /boot (Ubuntu Server 16.04) I was getting a bunch of errors when trying to update my system, and updates were failing. It asked me to run sudo apt-get -f install to resolve but still failed. The relevant part of the error is below: dUnpacking linux-image-4.4.0-127-generic (4.4.0-127.153) ... dpkg: error processing
Computing HTML5 Playback on Ubuntu 18.04 I installed the basic version of Ubuntu Desktop, this came without loads of extra software that I didn't need or want (Amazon, LibreOffice etc.) However, when I came to watch YouTube I wasn't able to due to lack of HTML5 support. HTML5 support can be tested here: https://www.youtube.
Computing Adding more space to Linux Volume (Ubuntu Server 16.04) This is probably quite specific to my server setup, noted for future reference. If you aren't using LVM, or have multiple Logical Volumes on your Volume Groups then it might not work so smoothly... My server is set up with a couple of Volume Groups (removed some of the less
Computing 0x80070002 Error with Bash on Windows following Creators Update After installing the Windows Creators update I found that "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" stopped working - when running from the Start Menu the window instantly closed, when running from CMD with normal user permissions it came back with the 0x80070002 error. This appears to be because I
Computing YouTubeTV Channel for Plex Media Server How I've been installing and updating the YouTubeTV plugin on Ubuntu Server 16.04... Download the latest tar.gz release of the plugin from the author's GitHub page here wget https://github.com/kolsys/YouTubeTV.bundle/archive/v4.6.tar.gz Extract the file tar -xvf v4.6.tar.gz
Computing Updating Plex on Ubuntu 16.04 Server Get the link for the latest version of Plex from the download page. (Look for the Linux link, find the correct Ubuntu version and right-click > Copy Link Address) Download the latest version of Plex using wget (and paste the link into the terminal after the wget command) wget https:
Computing Trying Gnome Desktop environment on Ubuntu 16.04 I was trying to find out how to try the Gnome desktop environment on Ubuntu but couldn't find much. Here is what I did to try it, but don't do it! The best way try Ubuntu with Gnome is to just install Ubuntu Gnome. If you install the full gnome
