BT Broadband

The UK’s premier provider of residential broadband services. This page holds my notes on their Fair Usage policy as at Autumn 2011. The comment documents BT’s transition to true unlimited. The page is now pretty much out of date. On the 25th July (2012?), I started to document the performance of the line at home….

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Red Wine

I can’t do the “I’m getting gooseberries & strawberry and fruits of the forest” stuff, it all tastes of Grape to me! But like a an art moron, “I know what I like”. I copied this page across on the 19th July. It seemed a shame to let it disappear since it’s part of my…

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NWN Playing a Rogue

I started this a while ago, in particular when playing SoU with a fighter/thief, for more see Binky Netzen. This article talks about traps, and multi-classing and cross references a character guide walkthrough.

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Lustre

Lustre is the premier HPC parallel file system. It was originally an open source project which Sun Microsystems bought and when the Oracle aquisition occurred it seems that Oracle failed to run with it. This was written in 2011; I looked it in 2018 when one of the links failed. Frankly I wondered if it was…

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My 1st Apple Mac

I bought a Mac Book Pro last week. 10th August 2009. I wrote up some notes about how to get it to do a job of work. This page is deprecated. The first set of notes were about an HTML editor. …

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Municipal WiFi

In Jan 2012, the Telegraph ran a story on how Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea boroughs have agreed with O2 to build the world’s biggest free wifi network, this is mirrored at this thread at South East Central. Municipal Urban WiFi at Wikipedia, includes a list of Cities with fee Citywide WiFi, in the UK,…

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Python

I returned to Python in Oct 2010. I have two problems to solve, converting my bliki to wordpress, (I never used Python for this) scripting for KDB & Hadoop This article contains notes started in 2011, I did not make this an omnibus entry and it is very sketchy, covering file I/O, date & time,…

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Socket Programming

It has to be Python Don’t ask. http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html, the official python documentation site http://www.kellbot.com/2010/02/tutorial-writing-a-tcp-server-in-python/, a rather wonderful tutorial http://doc.astro-wise.org/socket.html, more but harder to understand, for me at least and http://www.evolt.org/node/60276 which has slightly different flow control,

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controlshift.org

Introduction This was the web platform for Vanessa Garlick and Liz Gorman’s final year undergraduate project. WordPress WordPress gives us most of what we need, most importantly identity and authentication functionality. The one thing we are obviously missing is a voting solution. I have found two, Post Voting, this is their web site, it is…

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Apache

Here are some notes on using apache. This talks, a bit about Access Control and redirection. I need to test if any of this content was duplicated elsewhere in the site.

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Blending Photos

Here’s a tutorial Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop I plan to create a blended masthead for the web space What do I think I want, London, London, Canary Wharf, Train, Pompey, Garden , Me Start with just Two

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Open SUSE

Recently I have been working with Open SUSE, this has some interesting and frustrating differences to the Linux versions I am used to. These notes talk about Samba, Services and the Firewall.

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Virtual Box

This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest…

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Shell Programming

At some point, I wrote. “This page never seems to age, …” it just contains some idioms I like to use in my .login and/or .bashrc files. I don’t do this so often as when I started the page but the MAC keeps it in the house, and I have installed cygwin on nearly all…

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