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Meeting 10th March 2025 SERIOUS VIOLENCE STRATEGY We were given an important update of the Constabulary's Serious Violence Strategy. Just received £500k for collaborative work around the county. SDC is one of the specified authorities (statutory partners) that the OPCC works with. Four strategic priorities. Reducing the harm caused by Serious & Organised Crime (SOC) Reducing the harm caused by Violence & Intimidation Against Women & Girls (VIAWG) ASB can present a multitude ...

Arrows in GIMP on Linux Search the web and there is lots of AI slop and lots of suggestions re version two. However, for version 3.0, this seems to be the plug-in:- http://programmer97.byethost10.com/Files/arrow.zip I really struggled to get it going on Linux. First thing, it's a script, not a plug-in! Within the zip there is a file called arrow_V3.scm. This is all you need. On Linux the following location will need to be created. /home/your username here/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config...

Refreshing seems to take forever Gnome-software uses packagekit to do it's stuff. So the first thing to check is:- pkcon update If that is working OK but no resolution within the gnome Software app, kill the hung application and clear the cache :- killall gnome-software rm -fr ~/.cache/gnome-software/ gnome-software ...

Let's Encrypt certificate expiration ssh onto the machine where the certificate needs renewing. First stop the web server as it will interfere with the renewal process:- $ sudo systemctl stop nginx The do a dry run to check that everything is in order:- $ sudo certbot renew --dry-run If all goes well you should see something like:- Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Processing /etc/letsencr...

Model: HP 14-cm0000 If you run Linux on an HP Laptop upgrading the BIOS is a bit torturous! It seems that the BIOS downloads from HP will only run on a Windows 64bit machine. I downloaded mine from here, you have to select Windows as an OS otherwise no drivers are offered for download. https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/hp-14-cm0000-laptop-pc/20395806 The resulting download was a file called sp150585.exe which I copied to a local folder. Don't bother extracting the contents using wine, t...