How to protect an Excel File. File » Info » Protect » Encrypt with Password.
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Installing Liquid Feedback
I have been trying to install Liquid Feedback using Ubuntu 16.04. They have instructions on their site. These things are never as easy as it should be. Here are my notes.
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GDPR & the US Privacy Shield
I have just come back from a course on European Data Protection, the issue of standard clauses and Trans-Atlantic data flows was raised, I decided to blog on it, here are some links that I used.
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Migrating to wordpress.com
Can I migrate my blogs to wordpress.com and save money? Here are my notes?
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Mastodon
aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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WordPress & LDAP
Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.
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Home Printing
I have just bought myself a new printer scanner, an HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes ….
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Corbyn on Digital
In the 2016, Labour Leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn issued a digital manifesto, it is currently on the web here … and I have uploaded it to this site here… .
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A file selector for tcl/tk
A little project in TCL/TK and wish. I need a file system browser/selector. Here are my notes.
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Web Page Automation
I had a need to return to this; here are my notes, I start with some products. Also the related pages widget has been tuned.
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Social Sites, private control
I spent the weekend at Momentum’s Digital Hub. I did some work on source code control. One of the questions it raised in my mind is around collaboration. The tools chosen are those that you’d expect from a bunch of techies and developers. There was a split about using facebook, and I reconsidered how one…
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Using a package manager & repo
I need to distribute a package, I need it to have ACLs in front of it. I thought I’d look at the Linux Repo technology again. Here are my notes.
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Systemd (ptui)
Originally written in 2017. I said, “It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving”. I had another look in 2025, added some links as this time I wanted to move some job commands from cron to systemd i.e. run the programs/scripts periodically. Here…
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YANF WordPress Instance
I have reason to set up another wordpress instance. Here are my notes.
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Debugging the Plugins with WP 4.8
WordPress 4.8 has a conflict with one of my plugins. Bugger! The Visual Editor is badly broken. Seems to be working now, I accuse Super Emoji’s plus. That’s a shame!
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