Natural Born Coder

  • I recently got a new server and I realized I don’t have a comprehansive guide for setting a machine up from scratch. This guide is particularly useful for setting up something like a VPS where you only have SSH access,…

  • In an earlier article on setting up KDE Neon I mentioned that I was going to use KIO-Gdrive to access my Google Drive though Dolphin. That was a total failure due to a bug with the way KIO-Gdrive handles the…

  • In an ideal world all the software I use would be installed from the Debian repositories and it’d be a single click to keep it all up to date. In reality it’s not that simple. The built in package manager…

  • This is just a random collection of notes about Latex covering hurdles I hit early on. Including SVG images Long story short, don’t bother, it’s not worth the hassle. In theory you can \usepackage{svg} but adding just that gave me…

  • I’m formatting a thesis at the moment and I’ve decided to use Classic Thesis as a starting point. From what I’ve read this is a choice that will divide the room. Some people seem to love the look and others…

  • A short while ago I decided it was time to learn a little Latex as I want to produce some good looking documents. After many dead-ends I settled on using TexStudio to work with Latex. There’s no reason you can’t…

  • Despite spending more years at universities than I probably should have I’ve never had the need to use Latex. It came up once when I was collaborating on a paper while studying computer science but my partner was doing most…

  • I have a ZFS RAIDZ2 array in my main server and recently it suffered a drive failure. Naturally I was woefully under prepared for this occurrence so I rushed out and bought a replacement drive and got cracking with learning…

  • I recently suffered a drive failure on my main ZFS array. Naturally I wasn’t as prepared for this even as I should have been so I wasn’t 100% sure how to go about replacing the drive. I decided to press…

  • I’m sure I’m not the first to make a rusty pun but I couldn’t resist. I’ve coded professionally now for around 25 years but unlike many developers I don’t actually know that many languages well. My career to day has…

  • I have a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse which I absolutely love, it’s easily the best mouse I’ve owned (and I’ve owned a few) but as with many things Logitech it isn’t super well supported out of the box under…

  • I was really surprised to find the out of the box KDE Plasma doesn’t seem to have virtual desktops turned on (or at least it’s set to a single desktop). I know Windows technically has this now but it’s still…