I had a need to return to this; here are my notes, I start with some products. Also the related pages widget has been tuned.
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Social Sites, private control
I spent the weekend at Momentum’s Digital Hub. I did some work on source code control. One of the questions it raised in my mind is around collaboration. The tools chosen are those that you’d expect from a bunch of techies and developers. There was a split about using facebook, and I reconsidered how one…
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Using a package manager & repo
I need to distribute a package, I need it to have ACLs in front of it. I thought I’d look at the Linux Repo technology again. Here are my notes.
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Systemd (ptui)
Originally written in 2017. I said, “It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving”. I had another look in 2025, added some links as this time I wanted to move some job commands from cron to systemd i.e. run the programs/scripts periodically. Here…
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YANF WordPress Instance
I have reason to set up another wordpress instance. Here are my notes.
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Ansible
A new, to me, configuration management toolset called ansible. My notes! I’ll post more when I know more.
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Debugging the Plugins with WP 4.8
WordPress 4.8 has a conflict with one of my plugins. Bugger! The Visual Editor is badly broken. Seems to be working now, I accuse Super Emoji’s plus. That’s a shame!
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Data Modelling
Things move on. Here’s some reading, I am sort of interested as to how graphs have become so ubiquitous.
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Windows PeopleApp
I had to fix my Windows RT tablet’s People App since Google have withdrawn their Contacts Sync 😂 This it seems was several years ago. How very dare they! I used the Microsoft Community site and resurrected my Outlook mail account to hold another copy of the address book. YANF manual sync. I now have four 😋.
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Installing pump.io
I have had to do an install of pumpi.io a couple of times now and decided to write a script which I have put on GitHub since I only ever return after I have forgotten everything I learnt last time.
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Using GIT
I am fed up of having to look up how to make my git repos and upload them, so I am making this page. The man page is here….
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steemit, a bit of writing, bit of moola
steemit is a web site that lets you interact with the steem blockchain. The steemit blockchain is a system which uses virtual currency to reward users who post, comment or rate posts or comments.
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ISO 27001
On ISO 27001, much of my work now requires an understanding of this standard, the gold plated standard for IT security, well I say gold plated, more accurately reasonable endeavours. I believe that it will become an essential part of the defence to charges that one’s failed to adequately protect data. Nothing new here yet!
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wannacry and W8.1RT
After the Shadow Brokers released the NSA treasure trove, it became necessary to determine which personal windows systems required remediation. All my windows systems have been upgraded to W10 and so would seem to be clean, except the Nokia tablet, running W8.1 RT. Intelligence says it should have been patched by Windows Update, and so I wrote…
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Data Lineage
About Data Lineage ….. my notes.
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