Installing NWN2

When installing NWN2 today, I discovered, it’s best to do so from my GOG copy. The alternative would be to use one of my DVD sources, however the GOG copy comes with the extra games and most importantly the patches downloaded. The patch server has gone and so installing from disk does not work so…

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Google’s Market Share

I got distracted during a debate on Google and their regulatory need to delete out-dated and irrelevant entries in their search index. How big is google in Europe?

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Der Spiegel and the internet blocking of the CCC

Der Spiegel reports on Three & Vodafone’s blocking of the Chaos Computer Club, with the headline, “British Porn Filter blocks the CCC web site.” This page is a Google Translate version in English as I cannot find their English language report. It refers to the open rights group’s http://blocked.org.uk site which documents the blocks.

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Managing RFEs & Wish Lists

It’s been a while since I looked at get satisfaction and user voice. Both are now focused at selling to the supplier and it would seem that one can no longer take a single whinger view.  This page was deprecated in Nov 2020.

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Android’s Master Sync switch

I have installed one of the power managers on my Android phones, and when it reaches a v. low level of battery it offers me the option of entering “super saver” state. This turns off a number of rather useful services, most importantly the master sync service

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More wordpress voting plugins

I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace…

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About Maps and Data

This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For…

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Pidgin & TRM Runes

While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.

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Estonia e-voting

Estonia is becoming the touchstone and proof of good e-voting practice. It has failed its audits in the last elections.

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Custom WordPress Plugins

It seems that the wordpress plugin page lists those plugins held in the ./wp-content/plugins folder. The article, What, Why, and How-To’s of Creating a Site-Specific WordPress Plugin shows how to create a container. They advise that it is located in its own directory. Doing this creates an entry in a the Plugins, installed plugins page…

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Clonezilla

Make a Live CD or bootable USB, see http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php then running it, see http://www.geekyprojects.com/cloning/how-to-use-clonezilla-tutorial/

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