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Dave on Moving a Virtual Box VM
I need to move two Virtual Box images between two host machine images to keep them safe during an upgrade. Here are my notes and links. Read More
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Dave on Using Pay Pal
Some friends have shown me some cute Pay Pal tools, including how to dun someone and how to advertise a payment point. Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Remote Conferencing
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Dave on First thoughts on coronavirus in the UK
To deal with the coronavirus crisis, the Govt. wants more powers and it wants them for a long time. I wonder why because they don’t seem to be making any decisions and they pretty much have the powers they need. They have a page on Gov.UK describing what they think they need, and Big Brother Watch have published their take on it. We should consider their failure to offer security to those in work who may lose their jobs, fall sick or have to stop work to look after children or elderly relatives. This will also highlight the appallingly low levels of statutory sick pay and redundancy payments, not to mention the 2 year employment longevity requirement for redundancy payments. No-one is talking about those living on savings who will be hurt by the reduction in the BoE interest rate to 0.1%, by the collapse in the stock market (the FTSE 250 is down by over 40% in the month), and even their business support programme is based on loans and not grants. Read More
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Dave on Google Hangouts
Oh for 2nd Brain? Given the Health Crisis and social distancing, I am looking up how to use Google Hangouts despite the longevity risks upon it’s head, or see this about its future. Here as ever are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on The mooning emoticon
I was always disappointed when Microsoft removed some of the emoji’s from the skype set, I particularly liked the smoking, lalala and mooning icons, here is the mooning icon.
I might look for the other two another time.
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Dave on Minnow theme for WordPress
One of my favourite WordPress themes is the ultra clean minnow theme, it has not been updated for a while but its wordpress codex page is here, and I have made a copy of my theme directory. To see a thumbnail, see below/overleaf … Read More
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Dave on Configuring W10
Another set of notes on my Microsoft SME network project, this time on the LGPO, the Policy Editor; my first set of links relate to logon/logoff scripts and hopefully scripting configuration changes. Here are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on Trotsky on Britain
While doing politics over the last 4 years I have come across good people influenced by the writings of Leon Trotsky. Furthermore, once again we, the Labour Left need to have another think about our political practice. Here’s some of what Trotsky said about Great Britian. … Read More
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Dave on Becoming a Governor
I have applied to become a school governor. A number of authorities have outsourced the first stage to what seems to be a web site, Governors for Schools. Here are the rest of my notes … Read More
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Dave on IR 35
They’re changing the rules on IR35. They seem to have forgotten that probably its first goal was to indemnify the top of the chain from tax malfeasance; it was only a second goal to shag the horny handed sons of toil in the IT industry. A few notes … Read More
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Dave on Ubuntu on AWS
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos. Read More