Diaspora

I see why virtualisation and serverless computing is so popular. I am trying to create a diaspora pod. Here are my notes,

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Route 53 (on AWS)

With the advent of lightsail, I am re-evaluating AWS and need to look at DNS. The Amazon service is called Route 53. I assume it would replace ddclient in my previous solutions design. Here are my notes.

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WordPress calendar plugin

I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…

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Upgrading Elementary OS

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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Lightsail & WordPress

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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A Normal Distribution

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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Archive Widget Plugin

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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Mastodon

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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