Ian's World
Stuff and nonsense
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Chinese word segregation with jieba
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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...
Monday, September 8, 2025
Dynabook TECRA A50-J annoyance
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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 ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Debian 13 on HP 665 G11 laptop
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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 ...
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Starting X Server on Debian with systemd, xfce and lightdm
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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...
Monday, March 24, 2025
Armbian on NanoPi R2S Plus and RK3328 boot
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I have several Friendly Elec NanoPi boards . Recently I have been working on my NanoPi R2S Plus because Armbian didn't have support for...
Saturday, March 15, 2025
systemctl is-enabled is strange
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The is-enabled command of the systemd systemctl command is purported to: Checks whether any of the specified unit files are ena...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Armbian Build Framework
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I have a NanoPi R2S Plus . Armbian supports many of the NanoPi boards but doesn't have a configuration specific for the NanoPi R2S Plu...
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