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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N3200pro and SMB v1 (Deprecated)
This page is now deprecated; the box has been gone for a while. I am and was impressed with its longevity, I have no idea how long I’ll keep it on the site; it might be useful to some.
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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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Restore Points for W10
This looks pretty simple.
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SCP Toolkit.
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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Migrating from Storify
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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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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Encrypting Excel
How to protect an Excel File. File » Info » Protect » Encrypt with Password.
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Installing Liquid Feedback
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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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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Migrating to wordpress.com
Can I migrate my blogs to wordpress.com and save money? Here are my notes?
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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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