I am checking up on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, the home page is very useful and points at other links. I want to build a boot server for an SME network.
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Sankey diagrams
Post election, I wanted to make some sankey diagrams. My usual data visualisation tools are Excel or Libre Calc and I don’t think they include this charting option, but I want to do it. Here are my unfinished notes …
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Email Verify
Another GDPR requirement is that when signing up for something, the publisher needs to verify that the email given is genuine and belongs to the user. WordPress offers several plugins; there are other ways, here are my notes …
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Compilers & Interpreters
While writing up my notes on Static Page Generators, I was reminded of an IT course I did in the early ’80s. The course, SSADM at the Civil Service College included a session on presentation skills during which one of my fellow students presented on the difference between compilers & interpreters. He used a hand…
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Static page web sites
I came across a video that suggested using google drive as a web hosting solution. This seemed quite a neat idea. I need to examine if I lose anything by not having a web server in-front of it, probably not; there is one which is run and configured by Google. It would however require a…
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Scuttle and tagging
Having found my old delicious list, I thought I might see how useful it remains. The tags are not visible and so I would need a tool and my mind turned to Scuttle, which I have used before. As ever, here are some notes …
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Raspberry Pi and LVM
My NAS Box Fan has failed, I need to decide to repair or replace. One obvious answer is to use my “Pi” to serve out a pair of mirrored USB connected disks. How to do that on a PI? Here are my notes which I never implemented; basically I am using one of the cloud…
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W8.1 Certificate bug
I took my tablet to Labour Party Conference last month but when I turned IE on I got the “certificate revoked” error; this only displayed when opening IE on the desktop. I found this thread on microsoft.com which blamed KB4516067. Here are my notes …
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Trimming Youtube with arguments
This was written in 2019; when I looked at this in 2023, Youtube had created a clip function, which allows this to be done much more easily. I have amended the page; I wanted to cut some speeches out of a Youtube Video of Conference, I missed the opportunity to do so for the GMB…
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Card Processing for SMEs
I have been asked to look at providing a voluntary association with advice on the desirability of adopting a card processing solution. Here as ever, are my notes and links. …
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Making a web site using Umbraco
I am involved in an Umbraco project, we have decided that adoption is better than authorship, here are some themes we found.
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About SIOC
# I have thought long and hard about data modelling the person and wondered if SIOC would help. It seems designed for the modelling of blogs and so I am not sure, but here are my notes and links.
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Business process and workflow automation
My mind wanders to work-flow management and its meta languages and descriptions. Here are my notes.
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Moving this wordpress url and domain
I am looking to move this wiki to a location within davelevy.info. This was written in 2019, and in 2025, I let the deptford.red domain go, and needed to move that instance to another leaf in davelevy.info. Here are my [amended] notes…
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Visualising Electoral Data
My last post, Looking at the local election results, reminded me that I had been looking at how to visualise political data. Here are my notes. …
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