This was written in 2011, it seems. I write about my Nokia x5800 and how to configure it. At some time I merged it with my notes on the E71, but most of this content is now useless, at some time I will adopt a content retirement strategy but not today.
Read moreVideo Format Conversion for SONY formats
I took a lot of Video on the DE HQ Reunion Barge trip on a Sony Handycam and want to create a single video show for the holiday. I have done this before using the Sony Cybershot and the Mac’s slide show software to create a video of images. To include the Sony Videos, I’ll need…
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I keep a gardening log, it’s been going since 2009. Here are my notes/log.
Read moreHitachi Travelstar disk,
I have some problems with my family Dells. Dan’s Dell Inspiron has a Hitachi Travelstar disk. Given that the computer won’t boot, it’s a bit tricky to recover the data. So here are my notes.
Read moreHTML Slide Shows
I wanted to create a scrolling picture show as a banner on all the pages in a micro site. Many sites use this for their front page decoration. I didn’t want to use animated gif because of the age of the technology.It’s obviously becoming easier. Basic Tips below, shows how to use the HTML META…
Read morePlanet (Venus) Themes (CSS)
I use Sam Ruby’s Planet Venus. The package comes with two themes, I have always rather liked the ‘Fancy’ theme. This article was finished in May 2011, and talks about the css required to amend a planet output page in HTML/CSS. It was written for my planet G3 feed which was a G3 RSS repeater….
Read moreDiscovering Linux ‘Distro’ Facts
This article documents my version of whatdistro, I needed a User Procedure to report certain distro facts. I wrote a script called showdistro which works on a bunch of distros with varying verboseness. This is now implemented as a function on github : https://github.com/dfl1955/ubuntu-tools/blob/master/dfl1955_functions implemented as whatdistro.
Read moreNullsoft Scriptable Install System
The Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is an installer tool. I used it for my Perils of Branwen mod Meta These notes were written at the time I published my Perils of Branwen mod. It’s been lying around my home network systems for a while and I want to publish it so that others can use…
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