I chose to embed a parliamentary video cast in one of my blog articles and this is the agreement required before it can be embedded. I can’t find a link, otherwise I’d do so. This was created in Dec 2013.
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ACER V5
I bought an ACER V5, which from Curry’s/PC World. Here are my notes! …
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Mavericks
a.k.a. MacOS X.9 I said in my article on upgrading MacOS that this was easy to do, it was, but the resultant performance rendered it unusable. This article discusses what I did to resolve this. Concluding that another 4Gb of RAM is all it needs. This article is now marked deprecated. Re-install in situ As…
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Pop Up Meerkats
For various reasons I wanted to make a pop-up on hover using a picture. I have implemented a pop up meerkat in the blog. This broke at some point and I returned to the problem in 2019 and found a new guide, and again in 2020 where I fixed some theme/wordpress bugs. This is now…
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Automating posts to Google+
I once wanted to post my blog stream to google+, but it seems overly difficult to do. Even harder now that Google have shit-canned it. This is now marked as deprecated, but overleaf/below are my notes when this seemed a good idea,
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Buying a Flat 2013
I am buying a flat in London. Some things have changed. There is a property shortage and so seller’s behaviour is less desperate, although I was buying during the property boom of the early ’80s when a failed offer wasn’t a problem but some things have changed. Most annoyingly a number of vendors wish to…
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Code Tag
A note on dealing with the code tag. It shows how it looks today and posses the alternatives of a blockquote class and a code rule. It was written while using the zbench theme.
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Why I gave up on Snipsnap
It can be summed up as a lack of future, cost to host and missing functionality.
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I needed to research the Lavabits closure story and I found these links;
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Upgrading MacOS X
And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn’t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat? The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a…
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Error message : Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute An error message caused by an interrupted update There is a codex thread here and instructions to delete the .maintenance file here.
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Circular Icons for Objectdock
I use objectdock free on one of my XP systems and have just decided to install NWN2 complete. This meant I needed an icon for program launcher bar; actually it didn’t because the icon the GOG version ships with is fine. In order to prove this to myself I used google to look for some…
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Embedding Code in WordPress.
So I need to use Artiss Code Embed a wordpress plugin designed to overcome the RTF editor’s unpleasant habit of converting code special characters to HTML.
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Copying from XP to Wn
I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!
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System V init scripts
I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. This has been replaced by systemd.
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