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Category Archives: 2021

June Meeting

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Just an update to this, next meeting should be the 19th,  I had the 12th here for some reason, but have now corrected the error.

DCGLUG virtual meeting (jitsi) Day / Date: Saturday 19/6/2021 Time: From 12:00 Location: Online – Meeting jit.si link

Please see meetings page for more info or ask on IRC / Mailing list.

This is an experimental idea to use Mobilizon as a ticketing type system

https://rendezvous.nomagic.uk/events/714f9f62-76b7-4bda-99f0-f8b505fd6f33

You don’t need to do this to attend the lug meet it just helps me assess the platform.

LibrePlanet 2021

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LibrePlanet 2021

Empowering users

March 20-21, 2021

Virtual Conference

https://libreplanet.org/2021/

 

IRC LINK : #libreplanet

Server : chat.freenode.net

Webchat : webchat.freenode.net

Registration (benefits, the Participant tier is gratis)

Debian Firmware

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As Debian is a fully free Operating System. This means that if your hardware has any non free firmware, the drivers may not be available during the install. There are several ways round this.

  1. Use the non-free ISO
  2. Create a media that has the drivers available so that the installer can scan and install the appropriate firmware drivers during install. The instructions for this are available here.

Another option is to use hardware that does not contain proprietary firmware. Some links below may be helpful.

 

Annotating pdf files

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PDF files are really useful for moving documents around when you ‘need’ the recipient to be able to open in a pdf reader and see what you intended.

Unless you have access to expensive software you are usually not able to edit these files easily. While LibreOffice draw can perhaps do this, it may not be ideal for the job.

Xournal [1] is a Debian application, that while mostly aimed at touch screens, is able to annotate pdf files as the video below demonstrates.

As mentioned in the video notes, Xournal will export as a **.pdf.pdf file**, so you may want to rename it when saving. This is not even an issue for me.

Happy to discuss further on Mastodon [2] or on IRC. Please see contact page for details.

**References**

1 Xournal
2 Mastodon
3 Alternatives

Originally published 10/1/2020 on Author’s personal blog. Reproduced here by original author.

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