Haiku OS

Someone pointed me at this and I thought why not? I decided to have a go at installing it under Virtual Box. Here are my notes and links …

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LS Lowry

I have used a crop of a computerised image of one of Lowry’s factory gate pictures on a couple of my articles, usually those about workers rights. I am unsure of the images copyright status and so had a lock on the web. Tineye finds very little and wikipedia only references “Going to Work”. Here…

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BG3; modding the game.

In the tradition of these games, Larian have published sufficient to allow mods to be written. Here are my notes and links, with my view of “how to” and some links to several “how to” videos.

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Database Generators

It’s project time again. I need to build an application. It needs a database, and writing the procedural code in SQL is easier for me. So step one is to find an ERD/generator. Here are my notes …

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A home messaging server

I am looking for a wintel messaging server for games, first call being for Call of Duty II, I think. I am looking for a mini/compact if possible. This is an unfinished project and here are my notes.

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Netsurf, installing it.

I felt I needed a smaller faster browser for my Ubuntu virtual machine. So on the advice of doctor Google I found this page which mentioned seven.

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Python web apps

On coming home from Campaign Day’s Hacker day, I set myself a few tasks. If I am to continue with the small lottery system, and even if seeking to improve the NH’s donation inspector, it might be best to implement them as a python web app, if only because I can use pickle to avoid…

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Hugo Introduction theme No 2

More adventures on the PI, I have lost my Hugo Markup for dlf.ddns.net; fortunately it is not a big site. There are no automatic reverse engineering tools and so I’ll have to do it the long way round. So this is version 4. I have a page called Hugo on this site. Version 4 I…

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Political Donations Q4 2023

I have just downloaded the Electoral Commission stats on donations for what looks like Q4 2023 and done some quick charts, I’ll put my spreadsheet up once I tidy it up. The Tories have collected a shed load of money, rich donors have failed to show up for Labour. Short money remains very important to…

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About keyboards

About keyboards, been buying laptops recently but i have a bluetooth keyboard for my tablet and am considering getting a new phone and a smaller one might be cool.

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Britain & sick pay

While considering motions to go to GMB’s National Congress, I and my comrades considered sick leave and sick pay. Some of the saddest stories I have from my time acting as an accompanying rep come from people who have been long term sick and thus suffered a serious decrement in their income.

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Enshittification and Apple

This is a note, I might convert it into an essay. What’s the difference, I write the notes for me, I write essays for at least one other person. I am not sure this is finished, but as it stands, a bit of Corey Doctorow, and a bit of me. Corey Doctorow has turned his…

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