My notebook upgrades

[Jet Cash]

My notebook upgrades aren't going as well as I had planned.

I gave up on trying to install Android on the netbook, and decided I would go for Kali. I wasted a whole day on that. Kali doesn't recognise the WiFi adapter in it, and there is no CD reader or Ethernet socket. I have a good Alfa receiver, but I couldn't load the drivers for it until I was online. I tethered my mobile, and overshot my bandwidth allowance. It renewed the day after ( today ), and I bought an extra 10Gb for £15. About an hour later I realised that I could have used the WiFi link on the mobile ( it wasn't a good day ). They seem to have changed quite a lot in Kali, and it looks as if it doesn't support all of the chipsets in the HP Celeron netbook. The next plan is to go back to Ubuntu, and just use the netbook for basic offgrid internet work. I know that is not a problem.

I'm going to install a 2TB SSD in the i5 notebook, and I will try Kali in that with the Alfa receiver. The good news is that the receiver I bought is a genuine Taiwanese one, and not one of the dodgy Chinese copies that are being sols on the net. I want to use the notebook as my main computer, and I'm not sure that Kalu is the best choice for thar, but it will let me do a bit of pen testing, and I will have a longer range for my WiFi connection. If all goes well, I can double the RAM, and that should help with any content creation that I decide to do. I will also start to use the hardware wallet I won for collecting revenue for my woodland trust. I post a review when I get that working.

At the moment the wildlife camera project has had to go on hold, but I may try to find an app that provides remote control ofthe camera when Kali isstable.

Just to make things worse the cafe has sold out of poached eggs, tuna, avocado and battered fish.

[jackg]

If its on a phone or a digital camera you might be able to control it with Bluetooth volume controls or a long speaker/headphone wire.

I think it's up to the manufacturer to make the drivers so you might want to ask them if it's good enough quality for them to have a technical support.

[Jet Cash]

Thanks for the suggestion, It to be used in some woodland that is some distance from the house, and the intention is to watch for people trying to change boundaries, disturb the wildlife, and steal aged oak. One suspect is tech, savvy, so I deliberately chose a camera without bluetooth. It would be too easy for him to sense it. The WiFi on this camera can be turned on or off with a control pad that looks like a watch. It has got a USB port, but the connection is inside a waterproof compartment. so I would have to climb the tree to use it after setup. Probably the sensible thing to do would be to use my smartphone for control, and take out the SD card when I wanted to preserve evidence.

I'm on the notebook at the moment, and Windows has thrown up a message saying it want to install a load more rubbish - Hello and a smartphone link are just two of the options. I've more or less decided to put Kali on this machine, and go back to Ubuntu on the netbook. That will give me a lot more flexibility. I just need to check that I can maintain my sites, which have been neglected recently, but I am sure I can find products to manage this. Gimp has always appealed to me for some reason, so I will need to learn that. Audacity and many other software packages that I use , all have Linux support.

I'll need to find a quiet time in this cafe to swop the hard drives. At the moment it's pretty busy, as they are running the half price lockdown offer every day, and they are giving free meals for kids if they are accompanied by an adult who spends enough.

[jackg]

Just read the first part of this but could you not put up something like a birdbox to watch them and have the camera appointed at that? (if you've got an old floorboard - you're not using - you could easily turn that into one.

Part 2:
yeah windows popups are annoying
is wetherspoons doing the offer, I thought they'd be empty or at least bigger - I ended up in one last weekend and it was fairly empty.

[Jet Cash]

I installed the latest Ubuntu on the netbook, and I'm using it to post this. First impression is that it is fantastic. It installed without any problems, and it seems to have found all of the features on the netbook. Even the touch screen works. It logged ito the Morrison's wifi without any problems, and even managed to open the account. Windows 10 often struggles to do this.

I'll probably run my node on this machine using an external SSD. The hard drive is slightly too samll - I think it is 32Gb, and it can't be upgraded.