I have just reset my PC and need to re-install my packages. A package manager with an offline database would be cool, like the MS store, but for those apps not on the store, there needs to be a different answer. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Package management on Windows”
KIndle might be the best way to read .pdf books, now I have a tablet, but uploading them is not as easy as I’d hoped. Here are my notes. … Continue reading “Kindle device names”
I use Feedburner to manage my “subcribe by mail” service. I have been upset/surprised to find that some of the verification mails and even the subscription requests fail. I have some time on my hands so, here are my notes. Continue reading “Feedburner, a little hiccup”
A couple of things came out of my attempt to upgrade my hugo website which is hosted on aws at davelevy.cc. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Web Hosting on AWS (S3)”
Can I make and use an NWN virtual world a.k.a. persitant world as a conference feature on one of the cloud providers? It’d be fun. I probably should check client licencing to see if it’s worth it because the client software isn’t small; maybe I could RDP onto it. Anywhere, here are my notes. Continue reading “A persistent world”
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos. Continue reading “Ubuntu on AWS”
I am once again trying to write my blog on solutions architecture and the GDPR. I looked up “Data Lake” again and came across some very good resources in a You Tube channel from Intricity.
This summarises the design bifurcation between distributed data sources and unified query logic. It’s five years old. He or his teachers got there first i.e. before me.
I also had a quick look at “Born in the Cloud”, and “Why Hadoop is dying!”
All very insightful. Continue reading “Big Data”
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited. Continue reading “Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot”
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons. Continue reading “WordPress in the Cloud”
With the advent of lightsail, I am re-evaluating AWS and need to look at DNS. The Amazon service is called Route 53. I assume it would replace ddclient in my previous solutions design. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Route 53 (on AWS)”
Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes. Continue reading “Linkedin”
How easy it is it to write and deploy to Google App Engine? Continue reading “Google App Engine”
This has all gone away 😣😢 An article on my experiments with translating using auto-translator pages. Continue reading “Auto-translating a web page”
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? Continue reading “Google’s Market Share”
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. Continue reading “Managing RFEs & Wish Lists”