A note on dealing with the code tag. It shows how it looks today and posses the alternatives of a blockquote class and a code rule. It was written while using the zbench theme.
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Why I gave up on Snipsnap
It can be summed up as a lack of future, cost to host and missing functionality.
Read moreLavabits and its closure
I needed to research the Lavabits closure story and I found these links;
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Upgrading MacOS X
And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn’t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat? The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a…
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Error message : Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute An error message caused by an interrupted update There is a codex thread here and instructions to delete the .maintenance file here.
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Circular Icons for Objectdock
I use objectdock free on one of my XP systems and have just decided to install NWN2 complete. This meant I needed an icon for program launcher bar; actually it didn’t because the icon the GOG version ships with is fine. In order to prove this to myself I used google to look for some…
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Embedding Code in WordPress.
So I need to use Artiss Code Embed a wordpress plugin designed to overcome the RTF editor’s unpleasant habit of converting code special characters to HTML.
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Copying from XP to Wn
I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!
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System V init scripts
I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. This has been replaced by systemd.
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ERP
Obviously ERP has been around a while, in my researches, I came across these two open source ERP packages; they obviously run on distributed systems platform. This includes CRM, Accounts Payable and PoS. Also Project Accounting, Social Networking and an Issue Tracker, think I was looking at Project Accounting and the limited opportunity for innovation…
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Centos 6.x
I downloaded this from http://centos.mirroring.pulsant.co.uk/6.4/isos/x86_64/ The comments on downloading and installing packages to allow Virtual Box Guest Additions on my Centos 5.3 pages seem to still apply. You need a bunch of non-standard packages and to set a variable to point at the Kernel Source.
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File Transfer
I need to revise file transfer over TCP/IP. This article consists of links on encryption, sftp man pages, restricting shell escapes, sshd, ssh keys, restarts and scp.
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Disqus
This is page was originally created to document my use of Disqus supporting my snipsnap bliki. Disqus is a “comment as a service” web site. I revisited it in June 2025. I am not sure how I am going to do this as the snipsnap content is no longer required. I am a bit surprised…
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Snipsnap and the ‘html’ macro
One of the add on features contributed by the community to the snipsnap project was an {html} macro. Here are my notes,
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Decorating Blockquotes
Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. …
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