RA1AHQ | Blog about Radio and Linux

January

2022

Setting up the Sylpheed mail client and IMAP mail

Linux

11 January 2022 14:25

Radio amateurs in Russia in most cases use Mail.ru email of the form call sign@mail.ru.
Open source email client Sylpheed is the lightest (the installation file takes 10 MB) and supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS. This article is about setting up the client version 3.7 for Mail.ru and Yandex, using the IMAP protocol for Linux or Windows.

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December

2021

16:20

Setting up hardware video acceleration: brief instructions

Linux

24 December 2021 16:20

On my netbook (AMD C-30 processor with 1 processing core, AMD Radeon HD 6250 video card - Unified Video Decoder 2.3 with support for hardware video decoding H.264 and VC-1) I configured video output acceleration, sharing my experience.

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December

2021

Setting up MX Linux after a clean install: a better way

Linux

24 December 2021 12:45

I decided to use the method of upgrading a Debian Buster system to Debian Bullseye in one go, using one command.

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December

2021

Setting up MX Linux after a clean install: locale, updates, screen scale

Linux

16 December 2021 16:02

After an unsuccessful installation of MX 21.0, I had to return to MX 19.4 and configure the system from scratch.

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November

2021

VPN over PPTP in 5 minutes

Linux, управление, безопасность

24 November 2021 16:46

To gain access to the home server on which the receiver is running, I created a virtual private network (VPN).
The simplest method (but not the most secure) is VPN using the PPTP protocol.

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October

2021