I need to upgrade the Mac. The O/S version is getting a bit long in the tooth. I have V10.5, Leopard, I need to get to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are my, now deprecated, notes and links.
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Liferay
Liferay is an open source, free portal server written in Java. 2022 One of the links broke, so I went to their site and checked out the developer page‘ the code is still there. How to They had a Quick Start page which illustrates a 4 step how to get started process. This is the…
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Recoverying W7 admin user
I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been “upgraded”. This was made in 2013 and marked as deprecated in 2023. We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.
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WordPress Vulnerability
Ars Technica report an attack on WordPress sites. Here is a google search, looking for their coverage, and here is the Ars Technica security home page.
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Google Tools and Analytics
I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google’s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as separate sites. There’s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. Both the sub domains are wordpress sites.
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New RSS/XML tools
AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but it’s a bit tricky I have documented IFTT on this wiki and Feedly on my blog, they ahve led me to the following…
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iF THIS THEN THAT
The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, and channels define the this and that.
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Social Login
I have just installed Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …
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Open ID
On the 20th April, I installed Social Login on this Wiki. This involved me registering the sites with http://www.oneall.com/. This points towards open-id, and I have discovered these links, http://openid.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID and this, below which talks about how to run an open id server, since I if not you, am losing trust in the big…
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WordPress plugins
A couple I found or had recommended to me
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P2P DNS
Looking at DNS and the attempt to P2P it. Peter Sunde launched a project, reported at Computer World in an article called “P2P DNS to take on ICANN after US domain seizures”. It seems to have got stuck. This article dated 18 Oct 2011 and called Continuing the Distributed DNS System on Slashdot has some…
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Twitter API V1.1 (Deprecated)
This post was written in 2013 and I discovered in May 2018 that most of the links failed. It’s been a while, and it surprises me that my little wiki has lasted longer than the resources I point to, but not here. I could have deleted this post, but chose not to; I have heavily…
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Life after Google reader
So it’s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here’s the then alternatives …
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Windows Virtual Desktop
Here are some ideas for a windows virtual desktop, written for a W7 machine; deprecated in 2023.
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Feed Aggregation, paper.li and storify
I am considering a revamp of my web site. I am planning to rely more on dynamic content mainly hosted in this wiki and on the blog. One item of research is how to present my bookmarks and microblog articles. I thought I was interested in paper.li vs stori.fy. Here is a google search, storify…
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