Apart from the index for my Inkscape articles, I haven’t been actively updating this blog for quite some time. To be honest I’m more likely to post on Twitter these days, and I don’t often do that. But that hasn’t …
Read moreDo not mourn for things not done
Yesterday I went to my third funeral this year. All of them were unexpected. When somebody dies with little or no warning it’s too easy to get caught up in feeling that they were cheated out of their remaining time; …
Read moreddrescue article from Linux Voice issue #13
Here’s a PDF of my dramatized account of rescuing Andy Clift’s comic creation, “Bertie Bear”, from a corrupted hard drive, using the ddrescue utility on a Linux box. This extract originally appeared in Linux Voice issue #13, and is under …
Read moreIndex for my Inkscape tutorial series in Full Circle Magazine
For several years I have been writing a monthly column about the Free vector graphics program Inkscape, for Full Circle Magazine. Many of the articles have also been collated into “Special Editions”. Both these and the original magazines are available …
Read moreOff-screen windows with Inkscape on MacOS and XQuartz
My go-to editor for vector images is Inkscape. So much so that I use it in the creation of my cartoons and comic strips, and have been writing a monthly column about it in Full Circle Magazine for over six …
Read moreUbuntu 12.04.3 EDID checksum error
A colleague of mine came into work to find that his dual monitor setup on Ubuntu 12.04.3 was no longer working correctly. The main monitor (connected via HDMI) was being detected okay, but the secondary monitor (connected via a VGA …
Read moreFull Circle Magazine, Issue 66
The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 6 of Mark’s Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …
Read moreFull Circle Magazine, Issue 65
The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 5 of my Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …
Read moreThe Ubuntu Shopping Lens Debacle
It seems that Canonical are attempting to raise some money by inserting affiliate links into your Unity Dash when you type in a search term. Currently the main target for these links is Amazon, but I’m sure others will be …
Read moreFull Circle Magazine, Issue 63
The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 3 of my Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …
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