South of the Island Rally 2009 Lymington to Bembridge, with overnight stays at both ports. My Google Map Rail Time Table Train from Petersfield to Lymington, leave Petersfield at 11 minutes past the hour Sat 02 May Petersfield (PTR) to Havant (HAV) 12:11 -> 0:15 -> 12:26 Havant (HAV) to Southampton Central (SOU) 12:37 ->…
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They say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…
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XML Paper System I have a new laptop and have been configuring the additional tools and applications required to make it do a job of work. At the moment, I have no .pdf print driver yet and needed to save a web resource. I have Windows Vista 64 as my host OS and shall be…
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Microblogging makes this important. There are a bunch, but I prefer http://is.gd because its five characters long. Services Other’s I’ve found and used include http://tinyurl.com/ http://bit.ly/ A number of people publish top 10 lists, you can use google to find them. Problem definition I am interested in writing or implementing a url-shortener, for use inside…
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Glassfish
Glassfish was Sun’s open source application server. This was written in 2009 and at some point Sun/Oracle shit canned it. These notes are no longer worthwhile and I have marked the article as deprecated. If you want to see what I said, then you can read more …
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Alicante
I looked at traveling through Alicante on the way to Valencia. There was very little flight flexibility, and the trains from Valencia started late on the Sunday, although an overnight stop might have been fun. Minutes after booking a trip via Barcelona, I had the http://www.flybe.com, now gone, site pointed out there are three flights a…
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London
A city I know well so maybe I should share some stuff with you. The page was probably created as something my then US colleagues at Sun might refer to, but its been a while since I worked there. On this page, I have a google map of my places in the ‘City’ and West…
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Installing Laconica
This was published in 2009, the product has been superseded and the version dependent facts are over eight years old. This may not be as useful as it once was; the article talks about installing Laconica on an Ubuntu VM.
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Games, a blog ominbus
I originally referred to this as Nicopolis. Some games I thought I might play in 2009. Capitalism II See Wikipedia, Google and this fan site, called Capitalism Agglomerate. Its suggested to be the hardest game ever published, but is a serious business simulation. Republic, the Revolution Overthrow the communist state, I wrote about it on…
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Python and datetime
Some notes on python and its datetime routines.
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Small screen HTML runes
Optimising HTML for small screens I have been interested in optimising HTML for small screens and/or using CSS as the vehicle. This has been driven by my personal publication properties and started at Sun with the then Sun Blog. I marked it as deprecated in 2020.
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Audio on the Dell
This documented an intermittent error on my Dell Dimension and WXP. Dated in 2009, now deprecated. Microphone I tried to use the microphone to make video’s on the Dell and the sound track is inaudible. Sound Recorder also creats inaudible tracks. I have tried to discover how to audit the sound drivers. There is a…
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My Alienware Aurora
I bought one of these in February 2006 and it went bang for the 2nd time in the Summer of 2014. I could probably get it repaired but I can’t be arsed. It served me well, the rest of this article is/was an action log. …
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mobile VNC
I got interested in VNC. I have some notes elsewhere in the wiki, when I built a vnc server for AWS, so I could use windows to manage the remote Linux box. This note was written when I was experimenting with playing PC games through a small screen/handheld device.
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London Heathrow (LHR)
My notes, but it’s been a long time since I used it. Jan 2019
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