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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Low Pay
It is against the law to pay under the minimum wage, here are some notes on enforcement. …
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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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Flying Cars and the future techno economy
I have been influenced by David Graeber’s article/essay, “Of Flying Cars and the declining rate of profit”, which I need to read again. I posted, in 2017, a storify thing, after reading it which contains a bunch of notes from it and other references related to the political economy issues that he raises. The post…
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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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Early (English) revolutionary spirit
I am playing a game of inverse “would I lie to you” each weekend. We don’t have so many rules as the TV shows; I was considering doing one on English Revolts, but decided not to; but made some interesting discoveries, which for me reinforces the need for a debate on English History teaching. I…
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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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Scrutiny in Local Government
I am involved in conversations about local government governance models and I am concerned as I learn about the tricks that public authorities are using to frustrate scrutiny exercised by FOI and SAR correspondence. Here are my notes.
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Bear Church, Deptford
The church next door is planning to redevelop on its land. It’s planned to be 6 stories. Here’s their project page and here’s Lewisham’s planning portal page. Below/Overleaf is a picture from their facebook page.
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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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Deleting Data and Compliance
I decided to write a blog on data deletion and the GDPR. I needed to check up on ISO 27001 as well. Here are my notes.
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