Jon F – The Linux Experiment

Installing Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 400 from Windows 10

May 24, 2021 Jon F 0

I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 for my in-laws. Having gifted them many a hand-me-down laptop over the years, I was immediately struck […]

Blast from the Past: My Search for the Best Audio Editing Software

March 8, 2017 Jon F 0

This post was originally published on October 6, 2010. The original can be found here. Lately, I’ve been doing some audio recording. In addition to a […]

Blast from the Past: A Practical Reference of Linux Commands

February 23, 2017 Jon F 0

This post was originally published on February 19, 2010. The original can be found here. Just wanted to share a link to a great table that […]

Ripping DVDs on Ubuntu 14.04

January 24, 2017 Jon F 0

Remember DVDs? For those of you too young to have had to deal with the hassle of physical media, DVDs were how us old folks […]

Resizing and Correctly Orienting Images with Mogrify

December 30, 2016 Jon F 0

Lately, I’ve been publishing woodworking tutorials over on my own blog, and I’ve found myself needing to resize and correctly orient images taken with my […]

Playing the Simpsons Theme on an Arduino

February 28, 2016 Jon F 0

A little while back, I picked up an Arduino Starter Kit. It contains an Arduino Uno, a bunch of common components, and an instruction book […]

Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi

February 21, 2016 Jon F 2

As a lover of technology, I tend to accumulate bits and pieces of interesting devices. Usually, these are purchased for use on unrelated projects, and […]

Cloud Saves for Minecraft

February 21, 2014 Jon F 0

I’ve recently become addicted to Minecraft. I realize that I’m late to this game, having only recently discovered it despite its popularity over the past […]

WTF Ubuntu

September 7, 2013 Jon F 2

I’m not even sure what to say about this one… it looks like I might have an angry video card.

Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad

July 27, 2013 Jon F 1

With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]

Querying the State of a Hardware WiFi Switch with RF-Kill

October 8, 2012 Jon F 0

The laptop that I’m writing this post from has a really annoying strip of touch-response buttons above the keyboard that control things like volume and […]