Here are some notes on using apache. This talks, a bit about Access Control and redirection. I need to test if any of this content was duplicated elsewhere in the site.
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Blending Photos
Here’s a tutorial Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop I plan to create a blended masthead for the web space What do I think I want, London, London, Canary Wharf, Train, Pompey, Garden , Me Start with just Two
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Recently I have been working with Open SUSE, this has some interesting and frustrating differences to the Linux versions I am used to. These notes talk about Samba, Services and the Firewall.
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Virtual Box
This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest…
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Shell Programming
At some point, I wrote. “This page never seems to age, …” it just contains some idioms I like to use in my .login and/or .bashrc files. I don’t do this so often as when I started the page but the MAC keeps it in the house, and I have installed cygwin on nearly all…
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Snipsnap to WordPress
I plan to look at moving my snipsnap bliki to wordpress, i.e, here. This snip was originally placed on that site. I have transferred it for one reason because it contains xml tags which xslt has problems dealing with. This article consists of my notes made while designing a transfer mechanism.
Read moreProvident Mutual Endowment Policies
I am doing some research on my endowment provider. I bought policies with the Provident Mutual in the 1980’s. google search: norwich union buys provident mutual This Yahoo Answers page documents demutualisation route for the Provident Mutual, it went to General Accident and then to Norwich Union. “Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association demutualised in January…
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I have been experimenting with an OpenSUSE Linux VM running in Virtual Box.
Read moreBuilding a W7 laptop
Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m.
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