I have looked at Bittorrent on and off over the years. It was controversial as it was the preferred filesharing solution of choice for copyright pirates but it has significant other uses and benefits. It was probably designed to cope with site or server bandwidth scarcity in a client server transaction. I first created this…
Read moreI need a couple of jobs done on my desktop machines (all Windows XP) and have been installing Activestate TCL on my windows systems for years. This page talks about my favourite, or favourite at the time.
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Of course, because I am using wordpress, I have access to the wptouch plugin, which now looks great when used with ‘featured pictures’.
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Snipsnap was a blog/wiki written in Java. I used it from 2006 until 2013. This page acted as a source code archive with one utility and my Linux management tools. Most of what one might need is now available on github; it remains as host for HTMLMacro.jar.
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This snip is about fixing the Vista/XP networking interoperability problems, and now Windows 8. I have renamed the article Windows Networking. I renamed it Windows 2009 in 2019, as I needed to reuse the then current title elsewhere. Throughout the permalink https://davelevy.info/wiki/vista-networking/ should still work, otherwise it wouldn’t be a permalink. Supporting links began to fail…
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This article, which was originally about how to extend snipsnap & was copied across from the snipsnap bliki on 20th June 2013, I gave up on Snipsnap later in the year, and the project has been abandoned by its authors. This content is thus pretty much superseded and the title but not the link has…
Read moreI need to do this for the various RSS feeds I create. How? Isn’t google wonderful? See Peter Freitag’s article on his blog. Peter refers to browsers displaying the RSS feed address behind a button, this went out of fashion Roller Dave Johnson writes about it at this article on his blog and Matt Montgomery…
Read moreI used Plazes for a couple of years, until they turned it off. Like everything it has a wikipedia page; one of its delights was the automatic way that once configured your laptop would record your itinerary, and publish it through a web widget. Bit spooky. Obviously built by people that ‘got’ social, and in…
Read moreThey say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…
Read moreXML Paper System I have a new laptop and have been configuring the additional tools and applications required to make it do a job of work. At the moment, I have no .pdf print driver yet and needed to save a web resource. I have Windows Vista 64 as my host OS and shall be…
Read moreMicroblogging makes this important. There are a bunch, but I prefer http://is.gd because its five characters long. Services Other’s I’ve found and used include http://tinyurl.com/ http://bit.ly/ A number of people publish top 10 lists, you can use google to find them. Problem definition I am interested in writing or implementing a url-shortener, for use inside…
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Glassfish was Sun’s open source application server. This was written in 2009 and at some point Sun/Oracle shit canned it. These notes are no longer worthwhile and I have marked the article as deprecated. If you want to see what I said, then you can read more …
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This was published in 2009, the product has been superseded and the version dependent facts are over eight years old. This may not be as useful as it once was; the article talks about installing Laconica on an Ubuntu VM.
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Some notes on python and its datetime routines.
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Optimising HTML for small screens I have been interested in optimising HTML for small screens and/or using CSS as the vehicle. This has been driven by my personal publication properties and started at Sun with the then Sun Blog. I marked it as deprecated in 2020.
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