Extending Snipsnap (superceded)

This article, which was originally about how to extend snipsnap & was copied across from the snipsnap bliki on 20th June 2013, I gave up on Snipsnap later in the year, and the project has been abandoned by its authors. This content is thus pretty much superseded and the title but not the link has…

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Dell Inspiron 9300 Laptop

Introduction This needed rebuilding. I need to re-install Windows XP. BIOS Use F12 to enter the BIOS and configure the order in which the BIOS looks for a bootable image and make sure that the DVD is before the HDD. Help google:dell inspiron 9300 windows how to reinstall  

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RSS Auto Discovery

I need to do this for the various RSS feeds I create. How? Isn’t google wonderful? See Peter Freitag’s article on his blog. Peter refers to browsers displaying the RSS feed address behind a button, this went out of fashion Roller Dave Johnson writes about it at this article on his blog and Matt Montgomery…

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Plazes

I used Plazes for a couple of years, until they turned it off. Like everything it has a wikipedia page; one of its delights was the automatic way that once configured your laptop would record your itinerary, and publish it through a web widget. Bit spooky. Obviously built by people that ‘got’ social, and in…

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Dosbox

They say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…

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XML Paper System (XPS)

XML Paper System I have a new laptop and have been configuring the additional tools and applications required to make it do a job of work. At the moment, I have no .pdf print driver yet and needed to save a web resource. I have Windows Vista 64 as my host OS and shall be…

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Short URL’s

Microblogging makes this important. There are a bunch, but I prefer http://is.gd because its five characters long. Services Other’s I’ve found and used include http://tinyurl.com/ http://bit.ly/ A number of people publish top 10 lists, you can use google to find them. Problem definition I am interested in writing or implementing a url-shortener, for use inside…

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Glassfish

Glassfish was Sun’s open source application server. This was written in 2009 and at some point Sun/Oracle shit canned it. These notes are no longer worthwhile and I have marked the article as deprecated. If you want to see what I said, then you can read more …

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Installing Laconica

This was published in 2009, the product has been superseded and the version dependent facts are over eight years old. This may not be as useful as it once was; the article talks about installing Laconica on an Ubuntu VM. 

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Small screen HTML runes

Optimising HTML for small screens I have been interested in optimising HTML for small screens and/or using CSS as the vehicle. This has been driven by my personal publication properties and started at Sun with the then Sun Blog. I marked it as deprecated in 2020.

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Audio on the Dell

This documented an intermittent error on my Dell Dimension and WXP. Dated in 2009, now deprecated. Microphone I tried to use the microphone to make video’s on the Dell and the sound track is inaudible. Sound Recorder also creats inaudible tracks. I have tried to discover how to audit the sound drivers. There is a…

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My Alienware Aurora

I bought one of these in February 2006 and it went bang for the 2nd time in the Summer of 2014. I could probably get it repaired but I can’t be arsed. It served me well, the rest of this article is/was an action log. …

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mobile VNC

I got interested in VNC. I have some notes elsewhere in the wiki, when I built a vnc server for AWS, so I could use windows to manage the remote Linux box. This note was written when I was experimenting with playing PC games through a small screen/handheld device.

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