I bought an ACER V5, which from Curry’s/PC World. Here are my notes! …
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Mavericks
a.k.a. MacOS X.9 I said in my article on upgrading MacOS that this was easy to do, it was, but the resultant performance rendered it unusable. This article discusses what I did to resolve this. Concluding that another 4Gb of RAM is all it needs. This article is now marked deprecated. Re-install in situ As…
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Automating posts to Google+
I once wanted to post my blog stream to google+, but it seems overly difficult to do. Even harder now that Google have shit-canned it. This is now marked as deprecated, but overleaf/below are my notes when this seemed a good idea,
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Upgrading MacOS X
And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn’t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat? The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a…
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Embedding Code in WordPress.
So I need to use Artiss Code Embed a wordpress plugin designed to overcome the RTF editor’s unpleasant habit of converting code special characters to HTML.
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Copying from XP to Wn
I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!
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Centos 6.x
I downloaded this from http://centos.mirroring.pulsant.co.uk/6.4/isos/x86_64/ The comments on downloading and installing packages to allow Virtual Box Guest Additions on my Centos 5.3 pages seem to still apply. You need a bunch of non-standard packages and to set a variable to point at the Kernel Source.
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Decorating Blockquotes
Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. …
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delicious linkrolls
Time to revise this page. It was originally created to document the runes on how to use the delicious provided javascript linkroll generator, it then covered the slow and painful death of the service and my attempts to postpone the inevitable. In late 2019, I found my backup copy and posted it to the blog,…
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EXIF and MacOS X
I have listened to Stop 43, and the British Journal of Photography I have read what Tim Bray has to say and decided I may need to ensure that my picture’s EXIF data is accurate. You can’t give away what you don’t own, and it seems you need to assert ownership of pictures. The way…
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Dell Laptops, Summer 2013
Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.
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Mac OS, about upgrades
I need to upgrade the Mac. The O/S version is getting a bit long in the tooth. I have V10.5, Leopard, I need to get to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are my, now deprecated, notes and links.
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Recoverying W7 admin user
I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been “upgraded”. This was made in 2013 and marked as deprecated in 2023. We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.
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Twitter API V1.1 (Deprecated)
This post was written in 2013 and I discovered in May 2018 that most of the links failed. It’s been a while, and it surprises me that my little wiki has lasted longer than the resources I point to, but not here. I could have deleted this post, but chose not to; I have heavily…
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Life after Google reader
So it’s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here’s the then alternatives …
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