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.
Read moreDecorating 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. …
Read moredelicious 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,…
Read moreEXIF 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…
Read moreDell Laptops, Summer 2013
Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.
Read moreMac 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.
Read moreRecoverying 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.
Read moreTwitter 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…
Read moreLife 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 …
Read moreWindows Virtual Desktop
Here are some ideas for a windows virtual desktop, written for a W7 machine; deprecated in 2023.
Read moreW7 and Sleep with an HP Probook
As shipped the HP Probook can take too long to wake from “Sleep”. Made in 2012 and tagged as deprecated in 2023
Read moreWordPress on 1and1
This is known as the 1and1 blog. Unlike their canned web site this cannot be be dicked around with. They have a bunch of themes, some of which are pretty cool. This article was created in Jul 2012 and revised in Mar 2019 as most of the material is out of date and much of the…
Read moreBT Broadband
The UK’s premier provider of residential broadband services. This page holds my notes on their Fair Usage policy as at Autumn 2011. The comment documents BT’s transition to true unlimited. The page is now pretty much out of date. On the 25th July (2012?), I started to document the performance of the line at home….
Read moreMy 1st Apple Mac
I bought a Mac Book Pro last week. 10th August 2009. I wrote up some notes about how to get it to do a job of work. This page is deprecated. The first set of notes were about an HTML editor. …
Read moreBuilding a W7 laptop
Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m.
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