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I was making up posts about the special wrapped trains that run on the Auckland metro rail network – for example AM661 – Be Track Smart. In preparation for this I have been photographing the sides and front view of these trains. I then joined all these side view photos together to form a full… read more…
AM661 – Be Track Smart

The first of Auckland Transports wrapped trains, AM661, appeared around July 17th 2019. Designed by Flox and Trustme, the wrap incorporates the track safety message “Look Both Ways”. To quote Flox: The artwork here on the train is all about that safety message – Look both ways So the piece itself is a collab between… read more…
Trains By Route

Find which trains are running on your route Select the train route that you are interested in Trains AMP123 – A new wrapped train Location A New Train Station Service From Here To There Trains AMP00 and AMP01 Updated 01/01/1980 – 12:00am read more…
Station Trains

Want to find out which Auckland metro trains are currently at a particular station or another location on the rail network, this is the place to look. At the bottom you will see links to similar pages for other featured locations. For these featured locations there is couple of location photos along with a short… read more…
AlmaLinux GUI – no taskbar or application shortcuts

I did a fresh install of AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux 9.5 base VM, after which I found that I didn’t have the taskbar or icons I expected: Looking in settings, there didn’t seem any obvious settings. Extensions Click on “Activities” in the top left corner and search on “Extensions”: You will likely have to install this extension.… read more…
AlmaLinux 9.5 base VM

My Setup I need to upgrade a number of my VMs from CentOS7 to AlmaLinux 9.5, this post is about creating a base VM that can be cloned for multiple purposes. At the moment my home lab is on ESXi7, and I will be installing AlmaLinux from the iso: AlmaLinux-9.5-x86_64-dvd.iso VM Configuration Setup You will… read more…
Reset Kodi thumbnails

Kodi keeps thumbnails for most images that it displays. There may be times you need to reset just the thumbnails, that is what this post is about. The Kodi “Profile Directory” folder is where the user’s config is stored. This is typically in the Kodi folder “userdata”. Below this folder is a “Thumbnails” folder which… read more…
Set default settings values in Kodi skins

I am currently creating a personal, Zoyinc, fork of the Amber Kodi skin. This is customized to my personal needs. The reason for the skin is so that if I want to setup additional devices, or rebuild an existing one, I have a simple process. One of the things that I was trying to achieve… read more…
Add/Remove/Reset music/video libraries in Kodi

If you make some, shall we say, “structural”, changes to the files in your Kodi music library, this will not necessarily be reflected in Kodi. If you were to create a music library in Kodi and change the files, say adding a cover.jpg, you could then do an “update library”. However while this seems to… read more…
Zoyinc Kodi skin on Sony TV

I have created a customized skin for Kodi, forked from the Amber skin. The purpose of this skin is to get the experience which I want from Kodi, it was not designed as a skin for everyone. Having said that I have no issues with anyone using it, but bear in mind I won’t be… read more…