I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. This has been replaced by systemd.
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ERP
Obviously ERP has been around a while, in my researches, I came across these two open source ERP packages; they obviously run on distributed systems platform. This includes CRM, Accounts Payable and PoS. Also Project Accounting, Social Networking and an Issue Tracker, think I was looking at Project Accounting and the limited opportunity for innovation…
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Centos 6.x
I downloaded this from http://centos.mirroring.pulsant.co.uk/6.4/isos/x86_64/ The comments on downloading and installing packages to allow Virtual Box Guest Additions on my Centos 5.3 pages seem to still apply. You need a bunch of non-standard packages and to set a variable to point at the Kernel Source.
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File Transfer
I need to revise file transfer over TCP/IP. This article consists of links on encryption, sftp man pages, restricting shell escapes, sshd, ssh keys, restarts and scp.
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Swiss Railway Watch
also known as Mondaine. In my case, the Mondaine Swiss watch with time zone indicator/display. Here’s mine, it has a third time hand to display the time in a second time time zone.
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This is page contains complex html i.e. javascript, the page must only be edited as HTML. Disqus is a comment as a service web site.
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Snipsnap and the ‘html’ macro
One of the add on features contributed by the community to the snipsnap project was an {html} macro. Here are my notes,
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Decorating Blockquotes
Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. …
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XSLT
As the discussion on Snipsnap to WordPress implies, I am having another look at using XSLT to convert my old snipsnap dump to WRX. Links man xsltproc tizag’s xslt Tutorial, I like this one. filtering with xslt quackit’s xslt tutorial, not as good as tizag’s, IMHO W3 Schools on XSLT Another tutorial from from edutech…
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delicious linkrolls
Time to revise this page. It was originally created to document the runes on how to use the delicious provided javascript linkroll generator, it then covered the slow and painful death of the service and my attempts to postpone the inevitable. In late 2019, I found my backup copy and posted it to the blog,…
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Snipsnap Themes
Snipsnap offered multiple look and feels and for the advanced CSS coder, offered many opportunities to manage itl. My changes were relatively simple. In fact it might have been Snipsnap that took me to Blue Robot which influenced me a lot.
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EXIF and MacOS X
I have listened to Stop 43, and the British Journal of Photography I have read what Tim Bray has to say and decided I may need to ensure that my picture’s EXIF data is accurate. You can’t give away what you don’t own, and it seems you need to assert ownership of pictures. The way…
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Bioware Community Forums V1
Many of my snipsnap wiki articles are about Neverwinter Nights and refer to the author’s community site. I am copying them across to this wiki. The Bioware community forums were hacked in June 2011 and they did not put them back or preserve the permalinks. I have left the links in the articles, which means…
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Dell Laptops, Summer 2013
Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.
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Baldur’s Gate Reloaded
Someone’s finally done it, Baldur’s Gate, presumably the original saga, rendered in the NWN2 game engine, known as Baldur’s Gate Reloaded. This was originally pointed out to me by Berliand. This article hosts a video trailer and comments on the acquisition and installation process.
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