Make a Live CD or bootable USB, see http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php then running it, see http://www.geekyprojects.com/cloning/how-to-use-clonezilla-tutorial/
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Political Compass
For some time, social and political scientists have suggested that political views usually charcterised as a left right sepctrum is also influenced by a tough/tender or libertarian/authoritarian spectrum. This often called the political compass and a site of the same name is here, http://www.politicalcompass.org/. I first made this in 2014, and returned to it in…
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Testing Ideal Interactive Map
And on to another one which seems more promising, Ideal Interactive Map, which is also a plugin and advertised here. This will be deployed iteratively.
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Denmark and Copenhagen
Last weekend we made a quick trip to Copenhagen to visit people and the city. We flew from Heathrow since sadly there were no flights from LCY. We crossed the Oresund Bridge by train, to Malmo, Sweden and saw signs to the Airport. It seems that Flybe go there from Southampton.
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Launching unindexed programs in W8.1
With windows 8.1, my usual desktop metaphor for calling programs and the optimal alternative are less easy to implement; this is especially true for programs that are only occasionally used. I have historically created a folder called “More” and placed favourite’s to the program into the folder. (This is in order to keep my desktop…
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Leaving a W7 laptop
I need/want to recondition my W7 laptop. This was written in 2014; it is quite detailed on how to rebuild a wondows 7 laptop, and not totally wrong today although there are better versions of the tools today (1/1/2023).
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Leaving blogs.oracle.com
Time to see if I can load the Oracle Blog into my blog.davelevy.info. It seems to be behind a login screen now, although the index page seems available if you known the URL.
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To find your Storify’s story feed, the following URL works; http://storify.com/rss/<User Name>. Odd indeed.
Read moreInstalling Elementary OS using a USB
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the…
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