AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but it’s a bit tricky I have documented IFTT on this wiki and Feedly on my blog, they ahve led me to the following…
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The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, and channels define the this and that.
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I have just installed Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …
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On the 20th April, I installed Social Login on this Wiki. This involved me registering the sites with http://www.oneall.com/. This points towards open-id, and I have discovered these links, http://openid.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID and this, below which talks about how to run an open id server, since I if not you, am losing trust in the big…
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A couple I found or had recommended to me
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Looking at DNS and the attempt to P2P it. Peter Sunde launched a project, reported at Computer World in an article called “P2P DNS to take on ICANN after US domain seizures”. It seems to have got stuck. This article dated 18 Oct 2011 and called Continuing the Distributed DNS System on Slashdot has some…
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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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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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Here are some ideas for a windows virtual desktop, written for a W7 machine; deprecated in 2023.
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I am considering a revamp of my web site. I am planning to rely more on dynamic content mainly hosted in this wiki and on the blog. One item of research is how to present my bookmarks and microblog articles. I thought I was interested in paper.li vs stori.fy. Here is a google search, storify…
Read moreAs shipped the HP Probook can take too long to wake from “Sleep”. Made in 2012 and tagged as deprecated in 2023
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I need to convert my snipsnap snips to wordpress. I therfore need to consider the following things.
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For some reason, I wanted to capture a BBC iplayer stream onto my hard disk; it looks like I was planning to use my MAC, and so didn’t because I would have needed to upgrade the MAC OS version to 10.6 or better. Please note I am a BBC license fee payer, although of course…
Read moreIn 2012, I chose to use Zbench as my theme for the my then revised blog. I used it for a number of years until I migrated the blog to Nulis. I documented some aspects of the move on a wiki article, which now holds some history as comments. In 2023, I transferred some main…
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The first was at Sun, the second on snipsnap, the third on 1+1’s canned wordpress, and the 4th will be on wordpress at 1+1.
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