Ian's World

Recently I had need of an Ubuntu system for developent, in an environment where Windows is the only operating system allowed on work devices...

A while ago I wrote a program to analyse the vocabulary of my Chinese ebooks. It was very simple: it extracted the text and segregated it in...

Today I was running my laptop on battery. Not intentionally. I had unplugged it to move earlier and had neglected to plug it back in when I ...

Today I installed Debian 13 on a new HP 665 G11 laptop that came with Windows 11 pre-installed in 1TB SSD. It's not well tested yet but ...

I have been reading about X server keyboard configuration and this lead me to wonder how the X server was started, with what arguments and c...

I have several Friendly Elec NanoPi boards . Recently I have been working on my NanoPi R2S Plus because Armbian didn't have support for...

The is-enabled command of the systemd systemctl command is purported to: Checks whether any of the specified unit files are ena...