My music library is stored on my NAS. On my primary desktop at home, I mount the music folder and use Clementine to listen to my music. Everywhere else, I…
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LibreOffice – address label merge (from spreadsheet)
I’ve been using LibreOffice for over a decade and have only had to do an address label merge twice in that time – both of which have been in the…
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R – Finding and Setting Working Directory
R, like many software programs, likes to have a folder or directory on your computer to operate in. When you start R, depending on how you start it and whether…
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Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04
The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but…
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LibreOffice Calc – VLookup with dates
In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. It…
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R – changing mirror in RStudio
CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) is a distributed set of servers that allow people to download the various R packages from a bunch of servers that are all “mirrors”…
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Continue readingLinux FFMPEG – Flip Vertical Video to Horizontal
I was recently shooting some videos on my phone to share with someone else and accidentally flipped the phone before filming a clip. I never film vertically as I know…
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Continue readingLinux – Batch Convert .wav to .flac
I ran into a weird issue the other day where SoundConverter, a GUI for converting audio files, was generating flac files that my audio player couldn’t see. I’m still not…
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LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management
Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a…
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Linux Server – tar files and directories
I recently had to move all my websites from one virtual private server (VPS) to another. When I only had a few such websites, I was okay with using SFTP…
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