Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …
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Kerckoffs’ principle
For various reasons, Kerckhoff’s Principle has come up over the horizon again. Fascinating that he posed the principle in the 19th Century. Wikipedia states the principle as, A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. There’s no need to “Read More”, except to get the tags.
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Record Management
Doing some research again and decided to make some notes on “Record Management” good practice; here are my notes and links. …
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Using my Mac remotely
I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party apps.
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This site, moving home
I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. …
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My newest W10 build, now W11
This was originally written when I first got a new laptop, a 14″ ACER; it’s a bit smaller than the last one, also an ACER, its CPU is about 4 times more powerful and it only took me a couple of hours to get going. I got fed up with the recurring BSOD and “reset…
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NWN2 and W10 (2020)
I have a new windows laptop and need to bring my NWN2 game forward from the old machine; both are windows 10, although the new one is 64 bit. I wanted to economise the build’s storage space this time and had to overcome what looks like a 32/64 bit pragma problem; here is what I…
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Semweb again
I attended a webinar by the Semantic Web Company on Knowledge Graphs. This was allegedly focused on a book published by the company’s leaders, the Knowledge Graph Cook Book. I haven’t found the slides yet, but here are my notes …
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Superproject resurrection
I have a set of CA-Superproject’s installation disks and it has been an ambition of mine to see if I can run it on a modern Laptop. My edition failed to run on Windows XP and when I read about W98 and Virtual Box, I decided to see if I could install SPJ on modern…
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Deleting Data and Compliance
I decided to write a blog on data deletion and the GDPR. I needed to check up on ISO 27001 as well. Here are my notes.
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WordPress Tags, maintenance
I have some notes on the wordpress schema; I am trying to tidy up my tag list on my blog, there’s a shed load of tags which only have one entry in the database, there are some spelling mistakes and some inconsistency in the use of spaces and plurals. But I might leave those with…
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33 bits
I have just posted a piece on protective technologies and their impact on data protection compliance; I mentioned the 33 bit identifying threshold for a successful jigsaw attack and found that my notes on this were missing. So I made this. …
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Windows Networking 2020
I returned to this in 2020, here are my not so useful notes …
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Elementary OS & Printing
I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
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Feedburner, a little hiccup
I use Feedburner to manage my “subcribe by mail” service. I have been upset/surprised to find that some of the verification mails and even the subscription requests fail. I have some time on my hands so, here are my notes.
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