Ain't that a Kick in the Head?

Summary: My trials and tribulations trying to breathe a bit more life into an old Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) Wifi Tablet.

About five years ago, I acquired a Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) tablet. At the time it was a pretty decent piece of hardware with a 2560x1600 …

Summary: This post describes how to setup Gqrx, a software defined radio program, on ubuntu 18.04 using an inexpensive RTL2832U USB dongle plugged into a Raspberry PI 3 mounted in an attic.

Gqrx is an open source Linux based Software Defined Radio (SDR) built using GNU Radio with a …

I had the opportunity to upgrade the ESXi 6.5 install on my old Dell R710 with X5670 processors to ESXi 6.7U2 this morning. I'm running the 'free' version of ESXi and don't have VCSA available to me, so I upgraded via command line. For the most part I …

Summary: In this post, I describe how I setup the latest digiKam release on my Kubuntu 18.04 system with remote storage and database using an existing cifs/samba network share, MariaDB, and a custom color correction profile (.icc).

digiKam is a popular open-source photo management system which provides the …

Summary: Explains how to use displayCAL with Argyll CMS open source color management system to calibrate a monitor on a Kubuntu 18.04 system.

As a dabbler in photography (among many other things!), I occasionally process and edit photos I've taken for print or other purposes. I tend to use …