File Transfer & Windows 8.1

I want and need a better, faster interface for ftp and my blog server. Obvs needs to be encrypted. It seems that Windows 8.1 does not offer sftp natively but recommends WEBDAV. On my various clients I have multiple operating systems, but mainly Windows. The wise-ftp link failed today (24 Jul 22); the page is…

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Musings on O356

So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn’t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes OWA easier to use. Since tese comments are contemporaneous with W7, I have marked it deprecated…

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RDBMS theory

This was written 2014, I wonder how relevant it is today (2023). Much of it points are theory, which should not have changed. 😀 Barry Morris, CEO of Nuodb, has written a series of articles about the “Holy Grail”, which he published at the Cloud Computing Journal, and somewhere within the NuoDB site. The most…

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Automating posts to Google+

I once wanted to post my blog stream to google+, but it seems overly difficult to do. Even harder now that Google have shit-canned it. This is now marked as deprecated, but overleaf/below are my notes when this seemed a good idea,

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Google Tools and Analytics

I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google’s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as separate sites. There’s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. Both the sub domains are wordpress sites.

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New RSS/XML tools

AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but it’s a bit tricky I have documented IFTT  on this wiki and Feedly on my blog, they ahve led me to the following…

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iF THIS THEN THAT

The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, and channels define the this and that.

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Social Login

I have just installed  Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …

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Twitter API V1.1 (Deprecated)

This post was written in 2013 and I discovered in May 2018 that most of the links failed. It’s been a while, and it surprises me that my little wiki has lasted longer than the resources I point to, but not here. I could have deleted this post, but chose not to; I have heavily…

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Life after Google reader

So it’s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here’s the then alternatives …

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ddclient

ddclient is a program for Linux that negotiates with http://dyndns.com to allow systems with dynamic tcp/ip addresses to have static DNS names. This was originally written in 2011, and revisited in 2013. dyndns abandoned their free product some time ago, possibly as a result of being bought by Oracle. I marked the page is ‘deprecated’…

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Hadoop

The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. I became interested in this when looking at true 24/7, follow the sun computing. I published a blog article after reviewing Cloudsoft’s Monterey middleware. I thought it was pretty neat although I haven’t used it in anger.

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Installing Laconica

This was published in 2009, the product has been superseded and the version dependent facts are over eight years old. This may not be as useful as it once was; the article talks about installing Laconica on an Ubuntu VM. 

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Second Life

Is this the future collaboration platform for the Internet, or another amazing waste of time. The EU Commission took it seriously for a while, and it’s still going. Here are my notes and links, 

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