You’ve installed Xubuntu 22.04 on your laptop and things are going smoothly… Then you close the lid on your laptop and discover when you open it back up again that when you…
Tag: Refurbishing
Running out of space on our media center
Our media center configuration Tucked inside a Corsair Spec-01 case, alongside one of the walls in our living room, is the hardware for our media center. The hardware inside the case is…
Adding an HP Laserjet 1320 as a shared network printer in Xubuntu
Switching Printers at Home Other than running out of toner, there was nothing wrong with the HP Laserjet P1102w printer we have at home. The printer printed cleanly, was compact, and was…
Early Core i-Series System performance benchmarks
Introduction At the start of the pandemic I started to see a lot of videos on the topic of buying older hardware, and how old hardware is sometimes more performant for the…
Cheese removed from Computer Recycling Xubuntu installations
What is Cheese? Cheese is a picture-taking program for computers with webcams built-in (laptops) or attached (external via USB). Cheese is also capable of recording small videos (for larger videos, a program…
Findmonitor BASH script – identify and price monitors with one script
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…
Why does Computer Recycling still use Xubuntu Linux?
There are so many other Linux distributions Xubuntu Linux looks very old fashioned when compared to DeepinOS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and other beefier Linux distributions. So why does the Working Centre’s Computer…
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…
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…