This article constitutes my notes on Rufus Pollock’s Paper, “FOREVER MINUS A DAY? SOME THEORY AND EMPIRICS OF OPTIMAL COPYRIGHT”, August 7th, 2007.
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Elive (YANF LInux)
I was looking for a small and fast Linux, and chose to experiment with Elive. Here are my notes.
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Web Hosting on AWS (S3)
A couple of things came out of my attempt to upgrade my hugo website which is hosted on aws at davelevy.cc. Here are my notes.
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Value Discipines
I was thinking about business/IT strategy alignment and was reminded of the operational efficiency vs product excellence dichotomy that I have struggled with for years. I hadn’t realised it has one source, research by by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema. These theories came to be known as Value Disciplines and they included “customer intimacy” as…
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A persistent world
Can I make and use an NWN virtual world a.k.a. persitant world as a conference feature on one of the cloud providers? It’d be fun. I probably should check client licencing to see if it’s worth it because the client software isn’t small; maybe I could RDP onto it. Anywhere, here are my notes.
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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.
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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 …
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Remote Conferencing
The “crisis” has made me review my remote communication tools, I started with Hangouts, but need to check them all; here are my notes on the others. I look at Skype, IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Teams, Netflix, Zoom and Voice only!
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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…
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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. …
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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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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 …
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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. …
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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. …
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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 …
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