Microsoft are encouraging the use of online accounts with windows. Not everyone wants this. I was asked by someone without an account, who uses so-called local accounts how to get into their mail when challenged for a password.
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Ginger
I have been interested in trying to grow ginger for a while. I have consolidated my notes on the subject in this post.
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Etherium
I attended a webinar on Ethereum, they argue they have extracted the block chain management functionality from bitcoin and implemented what they call a consensus machine. Here are some links that I was pointed at or found.
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Elanee
Here are my notes on Elanee, one of the protagonist’s companions in NWN2. This is what the NWN2 wiki has to say. It contains advice on the build, highlighting certain spells and critically feats; as ever it includes a story summary and details, sadly deleted content.
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El Capitan
The time has come..it would seem. Is it easy? It all depends. It wasn’t seamless but we are working again, sort of. Also it seems Apple consider /var to be a system directory and not for use by user installed code but I have only found one program (written by me) impacted, which I initially…
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The economics of brexit
Like a goal kick chant. While researching my EU referendum contributions unlike some I did some research. Here it is.
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Streaming TV at home (ROKU)
I bought a ROKU stick, it’s pretty easy to start and make to work. It’s not clear from the web site, but you must open an account on their web site, agree their terms and conditions and lodge payment details with them; for buying extra I assume. The BBC, ITV, All 4 and Demand 5…
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Raspberry Pi (Deprecated)
I bought a Raspberry Pi to act as a Media Server in the home. I bought a PI, case, SD card and power source. As ever here are my notes. Currently, getting started (or 1st boot), 1st customisations, and early days with the media browsers and XBMC/Kodi. I have BBC, ITV and YouTube working, Channel…
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After Schrems vs Facebook
I am writing an article on Data Protection and cross border controls. These articles were interesting and/or useful.
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More on crafting in NWN2
So looking at the NWN wikia, here’s the sword I want, +5, Vampiric Regeneration, with Holy Damage.
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Raspberry Pi, Remote Control (Deprecated)
I want a raspberry pi in the living room to stream content on the TV. How to control it without moving my arse; this is a major design goal. A mistake, the Pi’s at that time weren’t powerful enough. …
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OMG Excel Arrays (a UNIQ filter)
Right. I needed to write a UNIQ filter in an excel spreadsheet and this needed to be implemented using functions i.e. not VB for two reasons; I can’t and the customer doesn’t want me to.
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Hotpoint Fridge Freezer HMB312AAI
Our fridge freezer is a Hotpoint HMB 312I or maybe an HMB312AAI. I need some spare parts. I no longer own this fridge and some of the links have gone away; I have replaced them with web archive copies. I hope this is useful to someone!
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Ubuntu 14, add user visible
I screwed up the installation of a U14 Gnome installation and the user was not prompted on the desktop login panel. This was fixed by using the settings -> user accounts control.
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Linux Power Management
Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical.
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