DOT & Graphviz

I was introduced to DOT and Graphviz. This might be useful for building dependency charts. I particularly like the radial display.

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Thunderbird, use thereof

This now seems pretty ubiquitous on my PC/Laptops since I moved my personal mail from Outlook to TB on my works machine to minimize errors. I have it installed on three systems, two windows and one Mac. I really need one set of filters, possibly most importantly to enforce deletions and filing decisions. Here are…

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Bar chart archive widget for wordpress

A friend showed me the blog at http://tatiyants.com/ which has an awesome archive widget. I want one. Fortunately Alex has documented how to build one, in an article called “How to create a bar chart archive widget in wordpress“. This leaves me with how to install a widget, a quick google, takes me to here,…

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Related Posts Plugin

I have been using the Related Posts plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, WordPress deprecated this and one of the webservice providers “Zemanta” withdrew/failed or something … this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than…

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New Home IT

Originally written on the death of my first XP system. My problems were compounded when I moved and with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on, to Laptops it seems! 😎

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Ruggedising the Internet

Mike Masnick writes a little article forecasting the engineers re-writing the single points of failure out of the internet. He entitles his article, Building A More Decentralized Internet: It’s Happening Faster Than People Realize. He cross references to two articles written by himself back in 2010, Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are…

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Job Control

It seems that Mac have begun to decrement cron and recommend the use of launchd for job control. I have found the following links to help me write the job control parameter file. man launchd a manual page on launchctl Mac launchd and launchctl — the OSX alternative to cron a blog by arunxjacob Scheduling Timed…

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