Note: This script is NOT compatible with systems running Wayland. We use Xubuntu Linux at our project. The idea for this BASH shell script was born out of the need to process…
Category: Hardware
Posts about a particular piece of hardware. Might also include details about how the hardware works with Xubuntu Linux.
findmonitor.sh – a Linux BASH shell script to create a PDF of monitor information
About findmonitor.sh The Working Centre’s not-for-profit Computer Recycling Project sometimes receives donations of many monitors all at once. Our previous method for handling monitors was to set them up, run them through…
Handbrake performance on more than 6 cores
Diminishing returns after 6 cores Handbrake is a video transcoder. It’s normally used to convert and compress video from a format into a more compressed format. Handbrake comes in a command line…
Sometimes a newer computer isn’t better
Most of the time a newer computer *is* better Conventional wisdom dictates the newer a computer is, the better the computer is. This bit of advice generally holds true comparing an earlier…
If I was building a new Media Centre
I could cut corners, but… This evening I went through the exercise of thinking about the parts I would use if I was building a brand new computer to serve as our…
Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers
About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…