Blog Value

I have been looking for a blog value calculator as a toy for this and the blog site. Here are my notes …

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Auction & Markets, the software

I came back to open source auction software again, it’s really important and seems to have been enclosed, particularly around SaaS services or by the Investment Banks and Financial Exchanges. Not aimed at the largest scale, but here are some notes …

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Steemit

It promised a social network where writers were paid for content in a crypto currency, it wasn’t to be. Was its failure baked into its conception, or did it do what its creators wanted i.e. make them rich? Here are my notes …

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Remote Desktop & Elementary OS

Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …

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Kerckoffs’ principle

For various reasons, Kerckhoff’s Principle has come up over the horizon again. Fascinating that he posed the principle in the 19th Century. Wikipedia states the principle as, A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. There’s no need to “Read More”, except to get the tags.

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Record Management

Doing some research again and decided to make some notes on “Record Management” good practice; here are my notes and links. …

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Using my Mac remotely

I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party apps.

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This site, moving home

I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. …

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My newest W10 build, now W11

This was originally written when I first got a new laptop, a 14″ ACER; it’s a bit smaller than the last one, also an ACER, its CPU is about 4 times more powerful and it only took me a couple of hours to get going.  I got fed up with the recurring BSOD and “reset…

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NWN2 and W10 (2020)

I have a new windows laptop and need to bring my NWN2 game forward from the old machine; both are windows 10, although the new one is 64 bit. I wanted to economise the build’s storage space this time and had to overcome what looks like a 32/64 bit pragma problem; here is what I…

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Semweb again

I attended a webinar by the Semantic Web Company on Knowledge Graphs. This was allegedly focused on a book published by the company’s leaders, the Knowledge Graph Cook Book. I haven’t found the slides yet, but here are my notes …

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Superproject resurrection

I have a set of CA-Superproject’s installation disks and it has been an ambition of mine to see if I can run it on a modern Laptop. My edition failed to run on Windows XP and when I read about W98 and Virtual Box, I decided to see if I could install SPJ on modern…

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