Originally written in 2017. I said, “It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving”. I had another look in 2025, added some links as this time I wanted to move some job commands from cron to systemd i.e. run the programs/scripts periodically. Here…
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I have reason to set up another wordpress instance. Here are my notes.
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A new, to me, configuration management toolset called ansible. My notes! I’ll post more when I know more.
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WordPress 4.8 has a conflict with one of my plugins. Bugger! The Visual Editor is badly broken. Seems to be working now, I accuse Super Emoji’s plus. That’s a shame!
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Things move on. Here’s some reading, I am sort of interested as to how graphs have become so ubiquitous.
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Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015 and published an economic manifesto called the “The Economy in 2020”. This disappeared from Jeremy’s site at some point. Richard Murphy pointed me at the wayback machine copy, and I have also posted it to this site as a mirror.
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I had to fix my Windows RT tablet’s People App since Google have withdrawn their Contacts Sync 😂 This it seems was several years ago. How very dare they! I used the Microsoft Community site and resurrected my Outlook mail account to hold another copy of the address book. YANF manual sync. I now have four 😋.
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I have had to do an install of pumpi.io a couple of times now and decided to write a script which I have put on GitHub since I only ever return after I have forgotten everything I learnt last time.
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I am fed up of having to look up how to make my git repos and upload them, so I am making this page. The man page is here….
Read moreI had to restore an Android contacts file. The restore copy had been made by syncios. I am not sure what version of syncios or android acted as the source, but the target was Android 5.2.2.
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I wrote about this on my blog, in an article called Modern Monetary Theory and returned to it over the last couple of hours. While I attributed it to Bill Mitchell, the papers I quoted and subsequent google searches point to L. Randall Wray and others. Wray’s book, Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment…
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steemit is a web site that lets you interact with the steem blockchain. The steemit blockchain is a system which uses virtual currency to reward users who post, comment or rate posts or comments.
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They have it here, my copy is here .. Labour Manifesto 2017
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On ISO 27001, much of my work now requires an understanding of this standard, the gold plated standard for IT security, well I say gold plated, more accurately reasonable endeavours. I believe that it will become an essential part of the defence to charges that one’s failed to adequately protect data. Nothing new here yet!
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After the Shadow Brokers released the NSA treasure trove, it became necessary to determine which personal windows systems required remediation. All my windows systems have been upgraded to W10 and so would seem to be clean, except the Nokia tablet, running W8.1 RT. Intelligence says it should have been patched by Windows Update, and so I wrote…
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