Stability & Growth Pact

I originally made this page in 2018, to collect my notes on the single market and the stability and growth pact. The pandemic blew the EU of course on this with most of the economies of the EU missing their macro economic goals; the Stability & Growth Pact commits its signatories to keeping to an annual…

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HUGO

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes , I tried three times, the most recent attempt in Dec 2022. …

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Small Scale CRM

I offered my advice to a correspondent who asked for advice on data mapping between old and new data models for a membership system. They are a smallish non-profit. I did some research which I hope you find interesting or useful. My advice is shaped by my experience which includes as you can see, a…

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Fragment on machines

I think I’ll try and get to grip with this, but Marx is very hard read. I am also particularly interested in his views on General Intellect, it seems he agrees that software should be free, but then he also thought that workers should run the state. The fragment on machines is part of the…

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Skype & Windows 10 (Versions)

I originally wrote this in 2018, the solution to the system freeze was to use a W10 reset function. I had to revisit Skype & W10 in May 2020. 2020 This time round I originally identified a problem as Skype failing to open the video window, or failing to write it to the screen. I…

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Diaspora

I see why virtualisation and serverless computing is so popular. I am trying to create a diaspora pod. Here are my notes,

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N3200pro and SMB v1

It seems I have not stated that I acquired a THECUS N3200Pro a couple of years ago. I have been using it happily since then, but today, my W10 system upgraded to SMB 2 and my connections failed. Here’s my notes ….

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Route 53 (on AWS)

With the advent of lightsail, I am re-evaluating AWS and need to look at DNS. The Amazon service is called Route 53. I assume it would replace ddclient in my previous solutions design. Here are my notes.

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WordPress calendar plugin

I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…

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Upgrading Elementary OS

I needed to update my Elementary build, by quite a bit. Sadly it still needs a re-install via a USB, and so some of the notes on Installing elementary OS using a USB remains useful. I am upgrading from Freya to Loki (0.4.x) , will version 1.0 be Odin.

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More on Millwall CPO

The Dyson enquiry into the planning consent for the New Bermondsey project has reported. The Council’s press release The Enquiry Report The Council’s Q&A A statement by Milwall FC These are links, let’s hope they stay there. (They didn’t and Lewisham don’t use the wayback machine.)

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