ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
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...
Take 2
Ok, so after a pretty successful 1st attempt (dual boot working and various applications installed and configured) I managed to break elementary OS (eOS). This was either caused by touchegg (enabling gestures) or Bluetooth (this would be my guess) but it ended up with...
Elementary my dear Mac
A number of things have aligned, resulting in me finally getting around to starting my first blog! 1. I setup a WordPress server a few months ago when working for a client who deployed WordPress to their customers and I wanted to learn a little more 2. I've recently...
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