I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace…
Read moreAbout Maps and Data
This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For…
Read morePidgin & TRM Runes
While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.
Read moreBags of Words
We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2.
Read moreCustom WordPress Plugins
It seems that the wordpress plugin page lists those plugins held in the ./wp-content/plugins folder. The article, What, Why, and How-To’s of Creating a Site-Specific WordPress Plugin shows how to create a container. They advise that it is located in its own directory. Doing this creates an entry in a the Plugins, installed plugins page…
Read moreClonezilla
Make a Live CD or bootable USB, see http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php then running it, see http://www.geekyprojects.com/cloning/how-to-use-clonezilla-tutorial/
Read moreLaunching unindexed programs in W8.1
With windows 8.1, my usual desktop metaphor for calling programs and the optimal alternative are less easy to implement; this is especially true for programs that are only occasionally used. I have historically created a folder called “More” and placed favourite’s to the program into the folder. (This is in order to keep my desktop…
Read moreLeaving a W7 laptop
I need/want to recondition my W7 laptop. This was written in 2014; it is quite detailed on how to rebuild a wondows 7 laptop, and not totally wrong today although there are better versions of the tools today (1/1/2023).
Read moreLeaving blogs.oracle.com
Time to see if I can load the Oracle Blog into my blog.davelevy.info. It seems to be behind a login screen now, although the index page seems available if you known the URL.
Read moreStorify & RSS
To find your Storify’s story feed, the following URL works; http://storify.com/rss/<User Name>. Odd indeed.
Read moreInstalling Elementary OS using a USB
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the…
Read moreShellshock & Apple Macs
For various reasons they’re slow to act, rumour has it that bash is now GPL 3.0 and Apple won’t use that, for various reasons. This shows how to get and compile and install bash I needed to run a sudo xcodebuild -license. NB Unlike COBOL, there’s no British spelling option. This article from askunbuntu also…
Read moreMac Appstore won’t upgrade
I hit the problem with my Mac Book Mavericks build that the App Store wouldn’t run an Xcode Upgrade. It offers me the terms and conditions but there’s no continue button. A, now disappeared thread on the Mac support forums offers a very complex diagnostic process or proposes that you download a free application to…
Read moreBluetooth in the Home
It’s not often one needs it, but my EDF Home Display uses it, also I tried a long time ago to connect a phone to one of the laptops; it was the latter that led to me making this post.
Read moreFile Transfer & Windows 8.1
I want and need a better, faster interface for ftp and my blog server. Obvs needs to be encrypted. It seems that Windows 8.1 does not offer sftp natively but recommends WEBDAV. On my various clients I have multiple operating systems, but mainly Windows. The wise-ftp link failed today (24 Jul 22); the page is…
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