I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up on Ubuntu again. … Continue reading “Back to Ubuntu”
The Unite GS election and the new GMB GS’s introductory statement in the Morning Star have brought the questions of syndicalism and auto-labourism to the fore. Personally I wonder if this is a rehashing of the debates around the service model vs. organisational model. Here are my notes? Continue reading “Service Model vs Organising Model”
I was working with Stylish and came across and article that <DIV> tags should be avoided. Stylish uses IDs and CLASSes to change the look & feel Why avoid these elements? A second thought is how can one use buttons to change the look and feel of a page by applying different styles? Do you still need javascript? Here are my notes … Continue reading “Dynamic Styles in HTML”
I needed to check my notes on RSS autodiscovery; I wrote about it in passing in my article on Venus, and on returning found this article by Pete Freitag. The key idiom is to add a <link> tag in the <head> section of your html page. Here are more notes … Continue reading “RSS Autodiscovery”
I attended the AEIP National Committee yesterday and now have some more reading to do, about SEO, and other campaigning organisations. Here are some links. Continue reading “After the AEIP strategy day”
A note on Redundancy Bumping. Bumping is the process of moving a potentially redundant employee into another role, and dismissing the employee currently performing that role. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Redundancy Bumping”
Another article on Excel idioms; this one’s about dates. It’ll be useful for some. Continue reading “Datediff in Excel”
I have had Zoom fail to connect to the camera on my PC over the last couple of days. Zoom say to make sure that other camera using applications have detached. I used [ctrl][alt][del] to start the task manager and noticed that Teams was still running. So I used the end task button and the camera came on. I launched the teams app and discovered in the setting panel, the switch i.e. checkbox that keeps it running when the call ends. This was on; now its off and it seems to be behaving.
My recent problem with the Raspberry Pi is an event monitoring and notification problem. It’s one, that over my career, I have spent a lot of time considering, but today, I only have one server. I don’t think I need or want to afford something like Zabbix, which comes with a series of event monitors and reporting and dashboard functionality. I have however adopted the habit of attempting to dovetail with host OS’s logging and reporting schemes. At the moment, I have written two event monitors which report to the desk top. Can I do better? Here are my notes. Continue reading “Event Monitoring”
I logged into find my disk to full to use. Why didn’t it tell me? Here are my notes. Continue reading “Raspberry Pi and messages”
I am advised that this is the really hot tool set to build websites with. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Jamstack”
I want to read Citrine’s ABC of Chairmanship on my tablet; who owns the copyright and when does it expire? Continue reading “ABC of Chairmanship”
The German Federal elections must meet the requirements of Article 38, §1 of the German constitution, “the delegates of the German Parliament (Bundestag) […] are elected in a general, direct, free, equal and secret vote.” This article talks about how Germany does proportionality, overhang seats, inverse success values and their threshold rules. It also looks at how problems represent themselves in the UK. … Continue reading “On Germany’s election system”
Things improve! I have just uninstalled Norton Ultra to replace it with the windows 10 builtins; previous experience has made this seem hard and risky. Hopefully not now it would seem. Continue reading “Swapping Norton with Windows builtins”
I bought a Logitech K380 for use with my phones and new tablet. It’s manual is here, and it connects to the tablet with a US keyboard configuration. This can be reconfigured using the Android setup bluetooth screens. …
To pair/connect, press one of the yellow buttons until the white light flickers, make the client issue a bluetooth scan, select the K380 and you will be issued with a 6 digit challenge, when typed into the keyboard the pairing is made.
To connect tap the paired channel button, the light pulses; if paired this is what you need.