Introduction This was the web platform for Vanessa Garlick and Liz Gorman’s final year undergraduate project. WordPress WordPress gives us most of what we need, most importantly identity and authentication functionality. The one thing we are obviously missing is a voting solution. I have found two, Post Voting, this is their web site, it is…
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Apache
Here are some notes on using apache. This talks, a bit about Access Control and redirection. I need to test if any of this content was duplicated elsewhere in the site.
Read moreBlending Photos
Here’s a tutorial Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop I plan to create a blended masthead for the web space What do I think I want, London, London, Canary Wharf, Train, Pompey, Garden , Me Start with just Two
Read moreOpen SUSE
Recently I have been working with Open SUSE, this has some interesting and frustrating differences to the Linux versions I am used to. These notes talk about Samba, Services and the Firewall.
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Virtual Box
This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest…
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Shell Programming
At some point, I wrote. “This page never seems to age, …” it just contains some idioms I like to use in my .login and/or .bashrc files. I don’t do this so often as when I started the page but the MAC keeps it in the house, and I have installed cygwin on nearly all…
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Snipsnap to WordPress
I plan to look at moving my snipsnap bliki to wordpress, i.e, here. This snip was originally placed on that site. I have transferred it for one reason because it contains xml tags which xslt has problems dealing with. This article consists of my notes made while designing a transfer mechanism.
Read moreProvident Mutual Endowment Policies
I am doing some research on my endowment provider. I bought policies with the Provident Mutual in the 1980’s. google search: norwich union buys provident mutual This Yahoo Answers page documents demutualisation route for the Provident Mutual, it went to General Accident and then to Norwich Union. “Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association demutualised in January…
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I have been experimenting with an OpenSUSE Linux VM running in Virtual Box.
Read moreBuilding a W7 laptop
Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m.
Read moreHello world!
I have decided to translate my snipsnap bliki to this site, its a bit of a struggle, but to make it easier, I have decided not to make it any harder or larger. This is my new wiki, I hope it’s usefull to people other than me.
Read moreNWN Community Expansion Pack
This article has broken links. DFL July 2013. The Community Expansion Pack is what it says; a collection of packaged changes, they are used in a number of mods. It’s an omnibus package. This page documents my notes on how to install it. There are two versions of the CEP named, One & Two.
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WINE
The windows software emulator, not more booze. Wine is not an Emulator, it seems. This was originally written in about 2011 when I tried to install NWN on my Mac (For more, see here….). As part of the rollforward from OSX 10.6, in 2013, I needed to rebuild the WINE implementation. I reorganised the wiki…
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WINE and NWN
This page is about my attempts to install NWN under WINE on my MAC. I finally got this working in March 2011 and then attempted to ensure that this page focuses on the NWN actions and runes, and that my WINE page deals with installing WINE on the MAC. I returned in 2014, to try…
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Wineskin
I used wineskin and winery to install WINE containers for the apps I want to run on the MAC. This article describes how I did it and cross references to some hyperlinks and other articles on this wiki. I
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