I decided to make an install of Snipsnap on my favourite Linux. I am using Ubuntu 9.0. This snip talks about how to, and configuring the rc.d files. It must be pretty useless now, and I have marked it deprecated and is another page that points at my mirror and thus needs to acknowledge that…
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The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. I became interested in this when looking at true 24/7, follow the sun computing. I published a blog article after reviewing Cloudsoft’s Monterey middleware. I thought it was pretty neat although I haven’t used it in anger.
Read moreI decided to have another go as I was looking to consume some planet feeds on a static web page. I found Display Your Feed on a Static HTML Page Using FeedBurner’s BuzzBoost using Google and this points at Feedburner’s Buzzboost, which is part of their feed publicity toolset. Now marked deprecated.
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I installed this on the Mac. I also have Centos 5.9 on the HP Probook. Here are my notes; it’s much easier these days. This was created in Apr 2010.
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It needs to be done, badly, has done for years, but is the DE bill an incentive to replace it with an appliance to act as a router/firewall etc. I am planning to move the internet facing services to a web hosting company’s server, but do I need something small and UNIXy. This article is…
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I spent some time over the last few days trying to populate the TK images folder with a usable image library. It seems we can now use .png//.jpg. Jan 2023.
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Donovan Ransome showed me Heatmapapi which looks pretty damn cool. So I have been trying to make one. I eventually gave up, the api needs server side programming skills and access. The programming skills and creating a accessible environment seemed too hard and time consuming. Help http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation geochalkboard on heatmaps
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I tested the household power yesterday and turned the Gateway off for 2 hours. Resetting Factory Defaults When it came up the wireless wouldn’t work. So I rang Linksys and they talked me through resetting factory defaults. For those of you following me, you must document your encapsulation and consequent parameters, your wireless settings and…
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This is my page about Machinima, which now has a wikipedia page. Another project which fell by the wayside. The rest of this page deals with some experiments and documents he links I found.
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Notes on integrating Google Search and Google Friend Connect to my site. This includes some google code that never worked on snipsnap, and doesn’t work here. 28 June 2013 Google Search Can I make a google search of the site? I experimented with the snipsnap field macro and tried to make http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=$query+site%3Adavelevy.info, where $query is the results…
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Travelling in NYC See http://www.triptropnyc.com/ They say “extraordinarily pretty subway maps from anywhere to everywhere in new york city”.
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This should be easier, but I think made harder because I corrupted my Firefox applications helper list, and then chose the wrong way out My problem, the browser tries to download index.phtml, in retrospect because, I believe that the module wasn’t properly installed into apache. Using Ubuntu 9.04 The Right Way This page, Apache MySQL…
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I built a Sun Virtual Box VM based on Centos 4.7. June 2009. This item is now deprecated.
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This page was originally entitled “Snipsnap Blog & XML Feeds”. It documented one of the crucial failings in snipsnap, its limited rss feed size of 10 and the blog article naming which means that it considered nearly all the articles to be titled “1”. In 2009, I experimented with using Google reader as a feed…
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It seems this is possible, and would be useful for work where all the laptops are Vista machines. This is deprecated, but if you want to see my notes, made in 2009, then read more …
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