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Spectrum 2

When will be released Adobe Spectrum 2? 93.47.36.196 (talk) 15:22, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

    @93.47.36.196: I don't know, as Adobe has only announced it in a press release. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 22:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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I want to upload some files to common but first I need to print them out as small images in Word to easily identify them.

As many as I can to a page so that I can identify where I was when I took them - it's an archaeological site where I took many similar photos. I can of course print them out now but one to a page would use my my ink! Thanks. Doug Weller talk 18:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

    @Doug Weller So you want to upload files to commons, but you say you need to print them? Why print them? I'm not understanding. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 19:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
      @TheTechie I want to print several on a page so I can compare with other photos I've found on the web and Commons to see if I have better ones than those and try to identify the archaeological features by comparing mine with images that already identify the features. Doug Weller talk 19:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
        In Word you simply need to create four separate frames on one page and paste one photo in each. Shantavira|feed me 19:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
          Thanks. That’s something I didn’t know I could do. Very useful. Doug Weller talk 20:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Replacing LVM drives with larger drives on Linux

My question here is rather complicated.

My current computer has three internal SATA drive bays, all of which are filled. Two of them have a 6 TB drive each, running the EXT4 file system and combined with LVM into a single logical 12 TB volume. One of the partitions on the logical drive alone spans 11 TB, i.e. more than one of the physical drives. The remaining drive bay has a 1 TB drive running the NTFS file system with Windows 10 installed, which I rarely if ever use.

I am running out of space on the LVM EXT4 drives in a couple of years. I'd like to replace them with larger ones, but how do I go about this? I'd like a similar set-up as I currently have but with bigger drives, such as two 16 TB drives combined into one 32 TB logical volume. I don't have enough drive bays to connect four physical drives at once, and I think to be able to use a LVM volume at all, I need to have both of the physical drives it consists of connected at the same time. Is it somehow possible to put the old drives into some sort of USB cases and connect them as external drives via my computer's USB ports or something? JIP | Talk 16:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

    I've used SABRENT 2.5" drive enclosures with great success. They are about £10 (or 13.7 USD/11.24 EUR) from Amazon. SABRENT also do multi-disk docking station and 3.5" cases, but obviously that is a little more expensive. I've no connection with either Amazon or SABRENT other than as a satisfied customer. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 18:05, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
    What I did both times I upgraded my LVM was remove the drives completely. Put in new drives. Upgrade to the latest version of Redhat, which is what I was using on the server. Connected the old drives using a USB adapter. There are many options. The one I use plugs into the SATA connector on the drive and has both power and USB coming out of it. It is not enclosed. The drive sits on my desk and hums. Once connected, I used pvscan to check the drives to make sure they were OK. They were. My plan was to swap the drives back if not. Then, I used vgs to see the volume ID on the old drives. Then, with lvs, I could see the mounting point for the logical volumne and mount it to a directory on my new drives. I pulled over the files I wanted to keep where I wanted them (and a lot went into a temporary "old junk" directory). When finished, I unmounted and unplugged the old drives and put them in my file cabinet in case I ever need them in the future. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Good Open Source CMS with Open Source Themes/Templates?

I'm still writing HTML and CSS by hand (and by Python script), but a friend is "just trying to build a website", and is shopping around for a content management system. They are aplenty, and most are Open Source. But it seems to be quite hard to find decent free themes and templates - a far as I can tell not because they don't exist, but because the internet is flooded with commercial subscription offers (of various and often dubious quality). Are there some good community sites to find good free stuff? --Stephan Schulz (talk) 18:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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Photoshop

Hi, what is Photoshop? HovigTheEditor 17:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

    Wiki is not only a community Q&A site but also an encyclopedia. See Photoshop and your question will be answered.  --Lambiam 18:58, 21 April 2024 (UTC)



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Tik Tok

I don't use or care about Tik Tok but for some reason I thought it was like a cross between Youtube and Twitter, where people could post and view videos using either an app or a web browser. But some of the stuff in the news about banning it depicts it as accessed purely by an app, not a browser. Is that correct? Thanks. 2601:644:8501:AAF0:0:0:0:6CE6 (talk) 21:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

    About two years ago I uploaded a few videos to TikTok on a desktop web browser and it worked just fine. I haven't opened TikTok since then, so it might've changed. —Panamitsu (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
    Wiki has an article about TikTok that should tell you all you need to know. Shantavira|feed me 13:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

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