KIndle might be the best way to read .pdf books, now I have a tablet, but uploading them is not as easy as I’d hoped. Here are my notes. …
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Responsive web sites using CSS
I decided to simplify my site at davelevy.cc and make it look like a linktr.ee page. This is best done using CSS and so I used some very simple HTML, and a bit more complicated CSS. I used the viewport declarations and @media queries. (It’s not perfect yet and needs some more work). Here are…
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NEC blogs, an aggregator
I made an aggregation of the NEC blogs I could find, it’s not finished as I need to install some margins, make it responsive and possibly reposition the meta panels. I looked at my snip, Planet (Venus) themes (CSS) and revised it slightly, otherwise here are my notes. …
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Two pane search of this blog
I want to build a custom search page for my whole blog space, you’d think it was easy, but it seems not. I am looking to parameterise the use of keywords or tags. Here are my notes and links.
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Home IT spring cleaning
I need to do some spring cleaning on my laptop. Here are my notes
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W10 and a new boot disk
If buying an SSD for a deskside windows system, it is best to configure the new disk as the book disk since the SSD will then also provide the swap file location, and the location for most of the software binaries. How might one do this? Here are my notes.
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Cross Border Data & Brexit
The Daily Mirror commented on the impending end of the Brexit transition period and SME compliance with any new data protection rules. They have a couple of Govt. officials and ministers saying that people had better get ready. In my linkedin post on the topic, I suggest it might be a bit late and we…
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Data analytics and democracy
Today, privacy campaigners have been circulating tweets about Brittany Kaiser’s document dump proving that Cambridge Analytics and AIG were working as a single entity. This would seem somewhat contrary to what the police and the ICO have been able to find. There’s more to find here and when I find it, I’ll post the stories…
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Technical Debt
When I first heard the phrase “Technical Debt”, I nearly fell of my chair, but recently, a couple of articles have passed me by and I thought I’d have look and think about if it helps address the intractable problem of maintaining legacy technology, but particularly applications code. The problem is that to make changes,…
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Losing sight of my remote disks
I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as…
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rchain.coop
Various things have brought me to reconsider, alternatives to Bitcoin’s proof of work and this points me at rchain.coop, because I know it. They are implementing a proof of stake based blockchain with a co-op based governance structure. Here are my notes …
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Mucking around until it breaks
This took a lot of time, I wanted to reduce the occurrence of my BSOD “UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION“. This involved reinstalling my anti-virus product, changing it’s passwords and then repairing my fingerprint reader driver as a result of a Code 19 error on my fingerprint reader. I then worked through the steps suggested here. This…
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W10. Home vs Pro?
What’s the difference between W10 Home & Pro? Here are my notes?
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Scroll bars in HTML Boxes
I am exploring text scrollbar. Here are my notes …
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Python/pickle
Some notes on Python Pickle. See below/overleaf.
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