My HP Probook Wifi has stopped working. It uses Elementary OS 0.4. Loki. Here are my notes!
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WordPress 301 Redirects
I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …
Read moreThe UK in nations and regions
A map of the UK using the HTML5 Maps Plugin.
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Labour & WordPress
The Labour Party are moving from the Nationbuilder web site to a customised wordpress environment. Here are my notes …
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HUGO
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes , I tried three times, the most recent attempt in Dec 2022. …
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Small Scale CRM
I offered my advice to a correspondent who asked for advice on data mapping between old and new data models for a membership system. They are a smallish non-profit. I did some research which I hope you find interesting or useful. My advice is shaped by my experience which includes as you can see, a…
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Skype & Windows 10 (Versions)
I originally wrote this in 2018, the solution to the system freeze was to use a W10 reset function. I had to revisit Skype & W10 in May 2020. 2020 This time round I originally identified a problem as Skype failing to open the video window, or failing to write it to the screen. I…
Read moreDiaspora
I see why virtualisation and serverless computing is so popular. I am trying to create a diaspora pod. Here are my notes,
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N3200pro and SMB v1 (Deprecated)
This page is now deprecated; the box has been gone for a while. I am and was impressed with its longevity, I have no idea how long I’ll keep it on the site; it might be useful to some.
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Route 53 (on AWS)
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.
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WordPress calendar plugin
I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…
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Upgrading Elementary OS
I needed to update my Elementary build, by quite a bit. Sadly it still needs a re-install via a USB, and so some of the notes on Installing elementary OS using a USB remains useful. I am upgrading from Freya to Loki (0.4.x) , will version 1.0 be Odin.
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Restore Points for W10
This looks pretty simple.
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SCP Toolkit.
This i.e. SCP Toolkit can really muck up your config and with windows 10 can be hard to fix since you cannot force a safe boot from a hard reboot. They say “ScpToolkit is a free Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers”.
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Migrating from Storify
Storify is going, how am i going to rescue this content. Target should be wordpress. This is going to be fun. Not! Here are my notes.
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