I have some data series I want to plot on my linux systems and so I am pointed at gnuplot and eplot. Here are my notes, …
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Modals & NWN Test
This page was built to test the required code to get the hint modals working on The Harp & Chrysanthemum page. It contains the three modals, which do not display until racked up and down. This has been tested on Firefox and is usable, and on Opera, which behaves oddly, and still requires to be…
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Digital identity and privacy
The issue of digital identity was raised as a CTOE meeting; so what’s happening …
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QAing my XML sitemaps
Google search console doesn’t seem to be picking up my sitemap on my blog. Here are the notes of my adventure to put this right. …
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The economics of the ERDF
In considering the recommendations of the CoFoE on digitsation, I came to consider how economies innovate and how competitive the EU is in the technology industries. The key programme may be the EU Regional Development Fund. See also their factsheet. This of course has relevance due to the announcement of the UK’s levelling up grants…
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Supercomputers
It’s been a while since I looked at this. Here are my notes …
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Making a searchbox
Hugo is not great at this, as I wanted on on my 404 page; I found a template I liked, which had a serach box embedded. I use this page to build one. It works quite nicely but there is a smallbug, and the site https://dfl.ddns.net doesn;t seem to have any entries in the google…
Read moreInstalling ‘sar’ on Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 using systemd
The utility sar is part of the sysstat package. Note the double ‘s’. Most articles/documentation state that the jobs should be run using cron. On Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 this no longer works, the utilities work, but the historical database is not collected nor stored. These systems require that systemd run the collector.
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Linux Performance Monitoring
Today, sar, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat.
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TCL Argument processing
You’d think TCL argument processing has been done and would be easy to find. But not for me. Here are my notes,
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Can I auto-post to Disqus?
Here are my notes, although this may not be what I want, threads are only started by making Disqus the comment system for the blog. …
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Imagemagick
I am playing with the Introduction Theme for Hugo and needed to see if I could change the pictures used to decorate it. I didn’t want to learn how to use GIMP anymore than I already do so I installed imagemagick. This article links to three articles that talk about greyscale, lightening and resizing and…
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Zenity
While writing my error warning routines, I was pointed at zenity. Here are my notes …
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Steam download speed too slow
I need to down load something large on Steam to my W11 laptop, the speed is truly terrible, so I go to google and there’s plenty of help. Here’s my notes …
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Hugo Air theme
My second go, here are my notes. …
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