I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can no longer rely on my schooling, here are some subsequent notes, mainly important dates between 1773 and 1844. … Continue reading “When did Capitalism start?”
A reminder on Labour’s conduct rules in meetings, … Continue reading “Comradely behaviour”
This seems to have stopped working, here are my notes. I think I am using onedrive-d, but here are my notes. … Continue reading “Elementary and Onedrive”
Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. … Continue reading “Remote Desktop & Elementary OS”
For various reasons, Kerckhoff’s Principle has come up over the horizon again. Fascinating that he posed the principle in the 19th Century. Wikipedia states the principle as,
A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
There’s no need to “Read More”, except to get the tags.
It is against the law to pay under the minimum wage, here are some notes on enforcement. … Continue reading “Low Pay”
Doing some research again and decided to make some notes on “Record Management” good practice; here are my notes and links. … Continue reading “Record Management”
I have been influenced by David Graeber’s article/essay, “Of Flying Cars and the declining rate of profit”, which I need to read again. I posted, in 2017, a storify thing, after reading it which contains a bunch of notes from it and other references related to the political economy issues that he raises. The post descended into note form, and I may go back and have another read and finish them. As ever for more, see below/overleaf … Continue reading “Flying Cars and the future techno economy”
I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party apps. Continue reading “Using my Mac remotely”
I am playing a game of inverse “would I lie to you” each weekend. We don’t have so many rules as the TV shows; I was considering doing one on English Revolts, but decided not to; but made some interesting discoveries, which for me reinforces the need for a debate on English History teaching. I was also motivated to discover the truth about the Battle of Deptford Bridge. Here are the links I found, with a little bit of commentry. … Continue reading “Early (English) revolutionary spirit”
I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. … Continue reading “This site, moving home”
I am involved in conversations about local government governance models and I am concerned as I learn about the tricks that public authorities are using to frustrate scrutiny exercised by FOI and SAR correspondence. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Scrutiny in Local Government”
The church next door is planning to redevelop on its land. It’s planned to be 6 stories. Here’s their project page and here’s Lewisham’s planning portal page. Below/Overleaf is a picture from their facebook page. Continue reading “Bear Church, Deptford”
I have just got a new laptop, a 14″ ACER; it’s a bit smaller than the last one, its CPU is about 4 times more powerful and it only took me a couple of hours to get going. Here apart from my notes on NWN2, are my notes. … Continue reading “My newest W10 build”
I have a new windows laptop and need to bring my NWN2 game forward from the old machine; both are windows 10, although the new one is 64 bit. I wanted to economise the build’s storage space this time and had to overcome what looks like a 32/64 bit pragma problem; here is what I did. Continue reading “NWN2 and W10 (2020)”