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Dave on Crossing the Thames
The politics of cross thames planning is heating up, here are some links, Read More
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Dave on About Maps and Data
This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For Creating Your Own Maps. A couple of these look very interesting. UMapper and HeatMaps look rather fun. I have also experimented with Tableau Software’s public aka community release. Read More
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Dave on Labour Friends of the ORG (rebooted)
A meeting of Labour Friends of the ORG was held at ORGcon yesterday, where Claude Moraes MEP spoke, we agreed to try and stay in touch, initially via Google Groups. The google group is called Labour Friends of the ORG and Read More
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Dave on Pidgin & TRM Runes
While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.
Yes, me. Since version 1.3.4
Params: Anvanced tab: nothing basically. Connection type – auto. UNCHECK “Use Single Sign-On” (!) Otherwise it’ll use your Windows Domain credentials with Reuters network, which is rather incorrect.
Basic tab:
Username: first.last.company.com@reuters.net
Login: first.last@company.com(Username is basically derived from the login name by replacing @ to dot and then adding @reuters.net)
Don’t forget that you may have unique password in Reuters network, not the same as your PC/Domain password.
They both tightened up on their SSL management , this page refers.
…..there have been considerable changes to the SSL handling in the NSS module. One part of them seems to be that the default for SSL cipher suites now follows the recommendation to disable known unsecure suites, e.g. that use RC4.
You can change the settings with Tools -> Plugins -> NSS Preferences. On my company account, which is a OCS2007 installation, I needed to enable at least TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA or TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 before SSL connections went through again.
However, don’t forget to keep your SIPE libraries up to date!
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Dave on Bags of Words
We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2. Read More
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Dave on Estonia e-voting
Estonia is becoming the touchstone and proof of good e-voting practice. It has failed its audits in the last elections. Read More
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Dave on Custom WordPress Plugins
It seems that the wordpress plugin page lists those plugins held in the ./wp-content/plugins folder.
The article, What, Why, and How-To’s of Creating a Site-Specific WordPress Plugin shows how to create a container. They advise that it is located in its own directory. Doing this creates an entry in a the Plugins, installed plugins page on the dashboard.
This page at stackoverflow documents how to put a posts tag list into the article.
And this is wordpress’s documentation on the Read More functions.