I wanted to create a scrolling picture show as a banner on all the pages in a micro site. Many sites use this for their front page decoration. I didn’t want to use animated gif because of the age of the technology.It’s obviously becoming easier. Basic Tips below, shows how to use the HTML META…
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I use Sam Ruby’s Planet Venus. The package comes with two themes, I have always rather liked the ‘Fancy’ theme. This article was finished in May 2011, and talks about the css required to amend a planet output page in HTML/CSS. It was written for my planet G3 feed which was a G3 RSS repeater….
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This article documents my version of whatdistro, I needed a User Procedure to report certain distro facts. I wrote a script called showdistro which works on a bunch of distros with varying verboseness. This is now implemented as a function on github : https://github.com/dfl1955/ubuntu-tools/blob/master/dfl1955_functions implemented as whatdistro.
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This page has been written in four parts. It was originally created in April 2011 and driven by my desire to install WINE. It was significantly added to in Oct 2013 when I upgraded to MacOS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. It was at this point that I transferred from Porticus to Pallet. In Dec 2013, I…
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I created this article in 2011, it was copied across to the wordpress wiki in the summer of 2013, and then amended in November 2013. I returned to it in Feb 2015, to document my adventures with wordpress. In 2017, I wanted to return to VNC/RDP and so came back to this page and I reviewed the…
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ddclient is a program for Linux that negotiates with http://dyndns.com to allow systems with dynamic tcp/ip addresses to have static DNS names. This was originally written in 2011, and revisited in 2013. dyndns abandoned their free product some time ago, possibly as a result of being bought by Oracle. I marked the page is ‘deprecated’…
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This was made in 2011; I tried in May 2024 to install it on a W11 laptop. Dosbox went on OK and I found some runes to mount the CD and create a game folder, but it still insists on having the CD mounted. The answer is probably steam or gog games. Overleaf/below, I have…
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This page was originally written in 2010, and may have been posted to the snipsnap bliki. When I rescued it, I copied it to the blog and then decided it would be better on the wiki. I made a major rewrite in 2021 as I considered writing alternate style sheets for some old sites that I…
Read moreI have been using irc://rizon.net as a chat server and they offer some identity management tools. Here is some more comprehensive instructions. ircaliasing These allow you to take ownership of a nickname and declare a virtual host. /msg nickserv register <password> <email> This causes rizon to send you a confirmation code and message. They send…
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On 13th July 2013, I upgraded to BT Infinity, and my HH was replaced with a V4 Hub. This page is completely outdated. The most recent page I have on my WAG is at Home wifi again. which is dated August 2023. BT are the largest provider of broadband lines in the UK. They provide…
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At the backend of 2009, I started experiments with WINE on MacOS. I documented my findings at my WINE page on this site. In March 2010, I returned to the project having been advised to use the Macports installation of WINE, instead of building from source. This page documents how I built from source code,…
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This page was originally i.e. in 2010, used to make some notes on using bash, or originally ksh on windows. At some point I moved from cygwin to Microsoft’s Windows Sub-system for Linux aka WSL. I have moved those scripts that I want to reuse to a github repo called windows-tools and the original text…
Read moreThis article was written in 2010 and became defunct. I have not deleted it as I still use the product and that use is increasing. I may create an RDP page as I don’t expect to need this and the RDP integration with today’s W10 is much better. The article looks at using an ipodtouch…
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Not just for file sharing, but also supports printing and name services. I now make it part of my standard Linux builds within Virtual Box but it is a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, it never seems to work out of the box.
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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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