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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WordPress & LDAP

Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.

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Corbyn on Digital

In the 2016, Labour Leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn issued a digital manifesto, it is currently on the web here … and I have uploaded it to this site here… .

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