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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SSL on a Raspberry Pi
Installing an SSL certificate and enabling https was a faff, here are my notes. Now including postfix and dovecot…
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Ka-52 “Alligator”
I came across this article, in business insider, and their No 1, most deadly helicopter gunship is the Ka-52 “Alligator”. I think the picture below/overleaf is dramatic, and I also think shows one in Red Army (or Air Force) livery.
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How to use Buffer
AS part of the fallout from the twitter migration, I had another look at Buffer. It’s has changed since I made this page, and now supports Blue Sky and Mastodon. It still only permits three channels on the free version which is getting a bit tight and to increase this one needs the top tier…
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More about Mastodon
Mastodon is in the news again; huge numbers are joining after Musk bought twitter. Here are some notes on what it is, what’s the mystery, and how to join it. …
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Raspbian on Virtual Box
I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …
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Ubiquitous Messaging
Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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Ubuntu 22
This seems a bit unstable, actually a bit unfair but they have changed how they deal with bursting swap, and firefox at least uses snap and so I may need some more tools. I have added to this page as I learn more about what additional configuration I need. My notes …
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Thoughts about eBay
I have just lost an Ebay auction, I was out bid in the final seconds of the auction. I need to do better and these notes might help me.
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