A seasoned programmer

Creating a new installation of Linux on my notebook is a fairly complex process so these notes describe the whole process. I need to download the latest version of Linux Mint from the Mint website as an ISO file. Create a boot disk on a USB using Rufus. I am using an earlier version of Rufus (v 1.31.1320) because the later versions are thought to have adware built into them. Use the settings in the picture below. ...

Mint usually works with NTFS USB drives but if you can’t see the drive you can mount it yourself. First run the command to see your hardware devices. sudo fdisk -l At the Disk line Disk /dev/sdb: 8004 Mb 8004304896 Bytes This is the usb disk drive At the Device Boot line you should see something like: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 32 1234567 1234567 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT ...

I use Google Earth to show all of the location points that I have created. The reason for this is that it doesn’t have the limitation of maximum number of points that Google maps has. I can drag a .kmz file onto the desktop in Google Earth and it will load the points and show them on the maps. Initially when I did this it showed me nice icons and there were no placemark names appearing on the screen. ...

Note: all screenshots were taken from my Samsung tablet. I have been saving my location points to Maps.me when we travel using my Samsung tablet. As I only download the points once a year it is very easy to forget the method I use to export my points. Each year I create a new bookmark set, for example this year I created a set named Victoria-2019 and this is where I saved all of my local points. ...

Changing the Link program to download a Web Request My Link, Packt and Plural programs have been set up to manually get a webpage and this is a slow process. I have updated the Link program to pass in a URL as an argument and then download and create the page automatically. This saves me a boring task. The program update was more complex than I originally thought because the pages I was trying to download used a network security protocol so I was getting TLS security failure exceptions. ...

Following on from my directory renaming program I have written some more code to renumber my video training and music files. Once again this is something that I have been doing for years and should have automated as some of the training materials can take around 10 to 45 minutes of manual work. I have a backlog of files that I wasn’t going to finish so I had to come up with a better way of doing the task. ...