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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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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This looks pretty simple.
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This i.e. SCP Toolkit can really muck up your config and with windows 10 can be hard to fix since you cannot force a safe boot from a hard reboot. They say “ScpToolkit is a free Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers”.
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Storify is going, how am i going to rescue this content. Target should be wordpress. This is going to be fun. Not! Here are my notes.
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First I had to get permission, then it was easy. There is a wordpress canned service, and how to install, boot and retrieve the password is documented here. This article by Adrian Milne helped in doing the copy from source.
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How to protect an Excel File. File » Info » Protect » Encrypt with Password.
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I have been trying to install Liquid Feedback using Ubuntu 16.04. They have instructions on their site. These things are never as easy as it should be. Here are my notes.
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I have just come back from a course on European Data Protection, the issue of standard clauses and Trans-Atlantic data flows was raised, I decided to blog on it, here are some links that I used.
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How to make a normal curve from a spreadsheet; I had some help but this is how to do it in Libre Office. I can’t find the pages that helped me now, but others have written about this.
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I made a document archive of Labour Conference 2016, and thought I’d see if I could do so for 2017, it might take some time since I wasn’t a delegate this year, although I built the 2016 archive from membersnet.
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I have just installed the “jQuery Archive List Widget”. This offers collapsable archive lists. It’s so easy. You configure it once installed by the widget management page. It’s now available on my home page’s 2nd page.
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Can I migrate my blogs to wordpress.com and save money? Here are my notes?
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aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.
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