Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Downloading pictures from Flickr

Recently Flickr announced that Free accounts are going away as we know it (1TB free storage): https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

Me and my wife have different accounts. I quickly came to the conclusion that I had to pay twice or merge the accounts. I don't need any of the shiny features Flickr gives for "free" with Pro account. So moving to alternative solution came to mind. But how much space/money it would take to move to a new site?

To find out, I decided to download all my pictures. That turned out to be a hard task, using Flickr only tools/features. Flickr's "Download Album" generates unique id that does not contain album name. When you download more than 2 albums on your disk, it starts to feel like detective work finding which 12345abcd like zip is your "birthday" album.

Well, it turns out Pro has benefits here - you can download photos via the Desktop app. Well there should be other Desktop apps out there.

That's why I turned to a great small app I used before:

Another way is to simply pay for a monthly Pro account and use the Flickr's app.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Installing Windows on external USB hard-drive from Linux

Create VirtualBox machine with Windows:
  • Download Windows
  • Create VM and install Windows
  • Install Extension pack
  • for WinXP you might need to install USB 3.0 driver

In Windows VM:
  1. Download and install Win2USB
  2. Download Windows installation image
  3. Connect the external HDD and enable it for VirtualBox guest
  4. Start Win2USB and select install to the USB HDD

id_rsa.pub: invalid format, error in libcrypto

After I upgraded my Linux and got Python 3.10 by default, it turned out that Ansible 2.9 will no longer run and is unsupported together with...