For some time, social and political scientists have suggested that political views usually charcterised as a left right sepctrum is also influenced by a tough/tender or libertarian/authoritarian spectrum. This often called the political compass and a site of the same name is here, http://www.politicalcompass.org/. I first made this in 2014, and returned to it in…
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Last weekend we made a quick trip to Copenhagen to visit people and the city. We flew from Heathrow since sadly there were no flights from LCY. We crossed the Oresund Bridge by train, to Malmo, Sweden and saw signs to the Airport. It seems that Flybe go there from Southampton.
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With windows 8.1, my usual desktop metaphor for calling programs and the optimal alternative are less easy to implement; this is especially true for programs that are only occasionally used. I have historically created a folder called “More” and placed favourite’s to the program into the folder. (This is in order to keep my desktop…
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I need/want to recondition my W7 laptop. This was written in 2014; it is quite detailed on how to rebuild a wondows 7 laptop, and not totally wrong today although there are better versions of the tools today (1/1/2023).
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Time to see if I can load the Oracle Blog into my blog.davelevy.info. It seems to be behind a login screen now, although the index page seems available if you known the URL.
Read moreTo find your Storify’s story feed, the following URL works; http://storify.com/rss/<User Name>. Odd indeed.
Read moreI am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the…
Read moreFor various reasons they’re slow to act, rumour has it that bash is now GPL 3.0 and Apple won’t use that, for various reasons. This shows how to get and compile and install bash I needed to run a sudo xcodebuild -license. NB Unlike COBOL, there’s no British spelling option. This article from askunbuntu also…
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I hit the problem with my Mac Book Mavericks build that the App Store wouldn’t run an Xcode Upgrade. It offers me the terms and conditions but there’s no continue button. A, now disappeared thread on the Mac support forums offers a very complex diagnostic process or proposes that you download a free application to…
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It’s not often one needs it, but my EDF Home Display uses it, also I tried a long time ago to connect a phone to one of the laptops; it was the latter that led to me making this post.
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I want and need a better, faster interface for ftp and my blog server. Obvs needs to be encrypted. It seems that Windows 8.1 does not offer sftp natively but recommends WEBDAV. On my various clients I have multiple operating systems, but mainly Windows. The wise-ftp link failed today (24 Jul 22); the page is…
Read moreget the .iso from here don’t make a mistake in creating the Vbox image, it needs a bridged network adapter
Read moreI need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1. So remember, Install from Live CD, reboot yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel yum update reboot install guest additions, if that fails set & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in…
Read moreNominet UK is the top level registrar of internet domain names in the UK. This is its home page. Here’s its wikipedia page. It also has a whois query page. There is an alternative at easywhois. and at who.is. Outlaw explain their view of the legal position in the case of name disputes. Nominet explain…
Read moredavelevy.info is getting a bit tired, I fancy refreshing it Elegant Themes, who charge, have a theme called Divi which looks great, and so I went to look at the codex for some ideas. I found these, Spacious Arcade Basic Singl Omega I also need a download interface although most of it could disappear into…
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