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Revolution Theme

I’m now using the Revolution theme from StudioPress. It’s a minimal design with lots of whitespace. The default font is Playfair Display which highlights headlines and blockquotes. The Playfair Display is available from Google Fonts if you’re interested. I think it’s a perfect theme for a photography blog. Although the theme seems to invite you to write more, something I haven’t been doing lately. And before I sign off, let’s take a look at what a blockquote looks like. Not bad at all. A beautiful theme.

It’s a minimal design with lots of whitespace.

By Studiopress

Cinnamon or Mate?

Here’s how to tell if you’re running Cinnamon or Mate.

inxi -Fxz

Result.

System: Kernel: 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64 
bits: 64 
compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.6 
Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana 
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
...

Genesis Footer

Here’s how to display Copyright years in the footer section if you’re using the Genesis theme.

[footer_copyright first="2002"]

Result:

Copyright © 2002–2020

The current year is dynamic. It will display 2021 a year from now. The first year is always fixed.

GB vs GiB

Interesting facts between GB and GiB.

  • GB uses base 1000. GiB uses base 1024.
  • 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1GiB is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
  • A 1TB drive is 1,000 GB. Or 931 GiB.
  • A 1TiB drive is 1000 GiB. Or 1099 GB.
  • To convert GB to GiB, multiply by (1000 / 1024).
  • To convert GiB to GB, divide by (1000 / 1024).

Linux Format USB Drive

Here’s how to format a USB drive on Linux.

Plug in the USB drive to see mount point.

# scan for all drives
df -Th
Filesystem     Type     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1      fuseblk   30G   66M   30G   1% /media/ulysses/451B99AF225B48EC

Unmount USB drive.

umount /dev/sdc1

Choose a file system type and run the appropriate format command.

# nfts format
mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc1
# vfat format
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
# ext4 format
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1