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Exchange (EWS) and Evolution
It looks like the users who are forced to use MS Exchange hosted on Microsoft servers with disabled IMAP and all forms of password authentication, have a usable solution that works on systems other than Windows.
Evolution can be configured to interact with EWS in a sane manner, and it properly supports the dreaded OAuth2.
While this procedure ( Read more... ) -
2-Terabyte mSATA SSD. From Samsung, no less.
Those who have relatively old laptops or embedded systems without NVME support, may find it interesting that there is such a thing as a 2T mSATA SSD. It is hidden inside 2T Samsung T5 external SSD -- those small drives are mSATA enclosures with USB3 interface ( Read more... ) -
Viber on Linux -- there is an update!
It happened -- the first update of Viber on Linux since October 2017. The recent protocol change left Viber 7.0.0.1035 barely usable, so finally Linux users got an update. The new version is 10.3.0.37, Debian package for Ubuntu works on 18.04 and 18.10 ( Read more... ) -
Viber on Linux, in particular, Ubuntu 18.10
Viber did not update its Linux port for a while, so by now there are two issues that cause trouble with it, even though it's proclaimed to work on Ubuntu.
1. The infamous libcurl3 issue.
That's a really stupid problem caused by dependency on libcurl3 in viber.deb, even though libcurl4 works just fine. Since those two are mutually exclusive, ( Read more... ) -
Graphics glitches with Intel HD Graphics 520 in Core i5-6300U
My laptop at work is Lenovo Thinkpad T460s with Core i5-6300U. Its CPU happens to have a "unique" version of a buit-in graphics adapter, Intel HD Graphics 520. When I first got that thing in 2016, it could only run Linux with DRI completely disabled -- it looked like Intel drivers did not properly support that adapter, even though things improved ( Read more... ) -
NVIDIA and KDE.
I have a home workstation box running Gentoo Linux. The desktop environment is KDE Plasma, currently at 5.11.5. And that's apparently not a good combination with the current NVIDIA driver. In the past I have seen occasional broken OpenGL compositor behavior, when a window suddenly flickered to black until redrawn, however otherwise everything ( Read more... ) -
Some improvements to Radish
I made those root filesystem builder and installer scripts some time ago, and they worked very well for all my Debian and Ubuntu installations. Still there were some glaring deficiencies in them, most notably the tendency of leaving mounted filesystem images on failures, and installer not creating a large enough /boot partition for kernels and ( Read more... ) -
Transcend Wi-Fi card support.
https://github.com/abelits/flashair-download now supports Transcend Wi-Fi card. In its default mode, Transcend card uses the same model as the default mode of FlashAir, card acts as an access point, transfer is performed using HTTP. -
Two scripts for photo-related devices.
Download files from Toshiba FlashAir SD card over Wi-Fi: https://github.com/abelits/flashair-download
Print on Canon SELPHY 1200: https://github.com/abelits/canon-selphy-print
FlashAir script is for the configuration with FlashAir card as the access point, it uses Network Manager through nmcli utility to temporarily switch the access point, ( Read more... )
