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Read moreFedora 20
I need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1. So remember, Install from Live CD, reboot yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel yum update reboot install guest additions, if that fails set & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in…
Read more.uk names and nominet
Nominet UK is the top level registrar of internet domain names in the UK. This is its home page. Here’s its wikipedia page. It also has a whois query page. There is an alternative at easywhois. and at who.is. Outlaw explain their view of the legal position in the case of name disputes. Nominet explain…
Read morerefreshing davelevy.info
davelevy.info is getting a bit tired, I fancy refreshing it Elegant Themes, who charge, have a theme called Divi which looks great, and so I went to look at the codex for some ideas. I found these, Spacious Arcade Basic Singl Omega I also need a download interface although most of it could disappear into…
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Featured images in wordpress
My current theme for the blog is not so good when the included text is not as deep as the featured picture. While not having a featured picture is OK for a screen based reader, it’s not so good for those using the wptouch interface. Maybe it’s not so good for deep pictures either. I…
Read moreW8 Virtual Memory
There seems to be a common fault with W8.x, it generates memory warnings well before any reasonable memory usage. “Close Programs to Prevent Information Loss” The error message has a bunch of google references. I have put up a thread at answers.microsoft.com. The first suggestion was to check that paging is on and that the…
Read moreRendering RSS on my blog or wiki
I have for a long time sought to present rss feeds within pages on this blog. It was started by a desire to use my social bookmark service as additional links in some of the reference articles on this wiki. The page was started in Jun 2014. Here my notes, although this page was subject…
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Musings on O356
So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn’t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes OWA easier to use. Since tese comments are contemporaneous with W7, I have marked it deprecated…
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Using EXIF on my home IT
I need to write a script that installs author and copyright facts into my pictures. The EXIF libraries are what I need. I’ll also need a scripting language; I used cygwin bash as my prototyping environment.
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Apache Flume
Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that…
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DOT & Graphviz
I was introduced to DOT and Graphviz. This might be useful for building dependency charts. I particularly like the radial display.
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Thunderbird, use thereof
This now seems pretty ubiquitous on my PC/Laptops since I moved my personal mail from Outlook to TB on my works machine to minimize errors. I have it installed on three systems, two windows and one Mac. I really need one set of filters, possibly most importantly to enforce deletions and filing decisions. Here are…
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Bar chart archive widget for wordpress
A friend showed me the blog at http://tatiyants.com/ which has an awesome archive widget. I want one. Fortunately Alex has documented how to build one, in an article called “How to create a bar chart archive widget in wordpress“. This leaves me with how to install a widget, a quick google, takes me to here,…
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Related Posts Plugin
I have been using the Related Posts plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, WordPress deprecated this and one of the webservice providers “Zemanta” withdrew/failed or something … this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than…
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New Home IT
Originally written on the death of my first XP system. My problems were compounded when I moved and with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on, to Laptops it seems! 😎
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