Thunderbird, use thereof

This now seems pretty ubiquitous on my PC/Laptops since I moved my personal mail from Outlook to TB on my works machine to minimize errors. I have it installed on three systems, two windows and one Mac. I really need one set of filters, possibly most importantly to enforce deletions and filing decisions. Here are…

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Adobe installs and updates

I went through a period where I am notified of a need to update an adobe product, usually flash and go through a loop of an install page and the home page; I was unable to update the tools. I finally checked the Ghostery report, and paused the blocking since one of the objects blocked…

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RCS

Revision Control System, one of the grand daddies of them all. I still use it because its simple and does not have a network interface. Actually, I don’t use it anymore, because it is not a network solution. Links The featured image comes from an OStechnix article on VCS. An O’reilly five minute tutorial http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/rcs/…

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Circular Icons for Objectdock

I use objectdock free on one of my XP systems and have just decided to install NWN2 complete. This meant I needed an icon for program launcher bar; actually it didn’t because the icon the GOG version ships with is fine. In order to prove this to myself I used google to look for some…

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ERP

Obviously ERP has been around a while, in my researches, I came across these two open source ERP packages; they obviously run on distributed systems platform. This includes CRM, Accounts Payable and PoS. Also Project Accounting, Social Networking and an Issue Tracker, think I was looking at Project Accounting and the limited opportunity for innovation…

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Disqus

This is page contains complex html i.e. javascript, the page must only be edited as HTML. Disqus is a comment as a service web site.

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Decorating Blockquotes

Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. …

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XSLT

As the discussion on Snipsnap to WordPress implies, I am having another look at using XSLT to convert my old snipsnap dump to WRX. Links man xsltproc tizag’s xslt Tutorial, I like this one. filtering with xslt quackit’s xslt tutorial, not as good as tizag’s, IMHO W3 Schools on XSLT Another tutorial from from edutech…

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delicious linkrolls

Time to revise this page. It was originally created to document the runes on how to use the delicious provided javascript linkroll generator, it then covered the slow and painful death of the service and my attempts to postpone the inevitable.  In late 2019, I found my backup copy and posted it to the blog,…

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Snipsnap Themes

Snipsnap offered multiple look and feels and for the advanced CSS coder, offered many opportunities to manage itl. My changes were relatively simple. In fact it might have been Snipsnap that took me to Blue Robot which influenced me a lot.

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EXIF and MacOS X

I have listened to Stop 43, and the British Journal of Photography I have read what Tim Bray has to say and decided I may need to ensure that my picture’s EXIF data is accurate. You can’t give away what you don’t own, and it seems you need to assert ownership of pictures. The way…

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Microsoft Office Templates

With Office 2010, the location of the “My Templates” folder for Excel is managed using Word’s Options dialogue box, and it seems that you can no longer specify a search path, solely one folder. What Microsoft say at answers.microsoft.com!

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