If you try to open a catalog stored on a network drive, Adobe Lightroom will complain about “Lightroom can not be opened on network volumes, removable storage or read on read only volumes.” You can easily overcome this by assigning the network drive to a drive letter using the subst command: This is especially useful …
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To improve paging loading performance across multiple devices, web developers can provide each image in different resolutions using the srcset attribute and let the browser choose which one to load e.g.:
If the KEF LSX II speakers are connected to your Linux (Mint) PC via Digital Output (USB audio) instead of WiFi and the audio volume is not loud enough, it might be, that the gain of the internal sound card of the LSX II is set too low:
This is an example about how to create vector tiles with PostGIS 3.3 (and PostgreSQL 15.3), serve them with PHP 8.1 and use them in OpenLayers 7.5. In contrast to the few tutorials available on the internet, it not only uses the latest PostGIS version 3.3, which further simplified the generation of vector tiles by …
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Adobe Lightroom only writes changes to Metadata such as geolocation into the XMP sidecar files and not directly into the EXIF tags of the image. If you add coordinates via the map module, then you will need to copy that information from the sidecar files back into your raw files (in my case Nikon NEF). …
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Google has a new experimental feature that proposes content for your website based on search queries that might not have good enough results. For this website and the category photography, it suggests to answer the following questions:
You can easily switch between multiple versions of PHP with: But if you installed the Oracle oci8 extension, you will probably run into the error, that it can not be loaded when switching to the older php version: Unable to load dynamic library ‘oci8.so’ This happens, because pecl uninstalls the previous oci8 version automatically unless …
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Updating the nvidia-driver on Linux (Mint) can lead to a black screen after boot. Here is how you can quickly revert to the previous working version: Press Ctrl + Alt + F1 and log into a the virtual console with your username and password (If that does not work, boot first into recovery mode, then …
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This post will show you how to setup and use a YubiKey and the Yubico Authenticator application to sign in to a Microsoft Azure Cloud Account using Linux Mint 20 without the need for the Microsoft Authenticator being installed on your mobile phone: Yubico Authenticator desktop installation 1. Download and install the Yubico Authenticator AppImage: