ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
Some WordPress tweaks
I know, another blog that doesn't continue the eOS saga, but I've got things to a point that I really need to be trying to use it on a daily basis and I just don't have the time, or faith, to attempt that at the moment. Hopefully, I will at some point, but for...
Alexa, write a blog update for me!
Ok, so she can't do that, but after inviting Alexa (aka the Amazon Echo) into my house earlier this week I thought I'd do a quick blog! I have to say, I'm really impressed and so far Alexa has help me with the following: switching on/off my Philips Hue lights...
SSL
Another non-eOS blog, but this has wasted some of my time this week and thought it might be useful (at least to me in 3 months time!) In today's internet world, creating and using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate (cert) should be much easier. Ok, it's...
Rogue One incoming!
Whilst we're on a Star Wars theme, Rogue One is now less than 20 days away. I've managed to get some tickets to see it at 00:05 on Thursday 15th December at the Cineworld IMAX in the Glasgow Science Centre, so will report back after that. Having really enjoyed...
Episode IV – A New App?
I've decided to try and break this down into 2 blogs, and as a small homage to the greatest film ever made I'm calling the first one Episode IV! I thought it would be useful to understand what I use in macOS before diving into the alternatives available in eOS....
Tweaking
Not with Miley Cyrus! One of the good things about a default eOS install is the lightweight feel. It really doesn't come with a lot installed, which is good if you want to add just what you need, but I do feel it's missing a few fundamental things. There...
Take 3
You didn't actually think I was done? I've actually been playing around some more with my eOS MBA and after installing a few more things and trying a few alternatives managed to break it again! It wasn't broken in the same sense that it wouldn't boot, but...
You’ve got mail (and a calendar)
I've kind of left this until the very end as I knew accessing my mail would be pretty straight forward. Webmail would always be an option if not, but I've configured other mail client in other Linux VM's so knew this would be fine. I have 4 e-mail addresses, or...
Enjoy your media on all your devices
Let me start by saying I LOVE PLEX!!! I needed to get that out of the way, as I'm sure others will love their choice of Media Server just as much, but for me, Plex does almost everything I want, and even some stuff I don't! I've been using Plex almost from the start...
VPN phone home
The last piece (I think) of my connectivity puzzle is the remote access back into my network when I'm away from home. This is really handy when stuff doesn't work, and by using a Virtual Private Connection (VPN) also provides an added layer of security when I'm...
My ownCloud
I configured Dropbox in the last blog, which I use to send scanner output from my WF-3640. I also use it to sync a number of services between iOS and macOS devices (1Password, YNAB, MacDive, and Mindset to name but a few) but other than that I don't really use...
Print and scan
I was actually expecting this to be a lot more difficult too, but in reality, it was pretty straight forward. I have an Epson WorkForce WF-3640 in my home office, and in any of my Linux VMs I've never been able to connect to it, even though it's physically...
Locked out
No, I haven't screwed things up just yet, but in trying to connect to all my devices I realised just how 'locked out' of just about everything I'd be (both locally and online) without access to 1Password! I've been listening to all the scary cyber security stories,...
Networking
Why is this always so difficult? Surely it should be a simple in this connected world for devices to talk with each other without jumping through various hoops? Playing with FreeNAS has developed my network understanding, but I'm still very much an amateur when...
Touch me touch me, say that you love me
Right, now I've got my preferred browser, I'd like to sort out some gestures. To be fair, 2-finger gestures seem to be working pretty well 'out of the box' or at least I can scroll up and down. In macOS I use 3-finger swipes to so 2 really common things:...
I'll digress a little here, but what did we do before the world wide web, and more specifically Google? Yes, I hear all the anti-Google arguments, but they don't charge me anything and the convenience and access to knowledge they provide is a price I'm willing to pay....
Where to begin?
Another great question! I guess my aim is to see if I could live in eOS should there come a time when I feel the need to ditch macOS. I'm not going to get into the applications too much in the post and will save that for later when I have a nice and stable...
Why eOS?
Good question, and one I've asked myself several times since I started thinking about reusing my MBA to run Linux. As I mentioned earlier, I don't profess to have a great understanding of Linux or even how different distros come about. I've played with the...
Installing Linux
I'm sure there are several ways to do this and hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from, but this is how I've done it for eOS: 1. Download eOS ISO file from > https://elementary.io They'd like you to make a donation to ongoing development, which I don't have...
Prepare to dual boot with rEFInd
Right, macOS (10.12 Sierra if you're interested) is installed on the MBA. Pretty straightforward once I'd destroyed the whole partition on the SSD. Pretty sure I'd messed things up trying to boot back into eOS and when I tried to remove the ext4 partition for Linux...
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