I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace…
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This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For…
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While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.
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We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2.
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I need to write a script that installs author and copyright facts into my pictures. The EXIF libraries are what I need. I’ll also need a scripting language; I used cygwin bash as my prototyping environment.
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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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This has changed since my days at Pyramid. There has been quite a lot of thinking and engineering about dealing with daemon logs. The places to look are via the syslogd, newsyslog project, you can see a the newsyslog man pages and using the keyword “rotate log”. The idea is that logs are rotated, although…
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It’s UNIX, how hard can it be? I want to run some Macports uodate scripts regularly. To me the obvious programming language is bash, but I got excited and decided I want to notify that the script had run, and run OK. There are two schemes, Growl and OSX Notification system. These both have language…
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I went through a period where I am notified of a need to update an adobe product, usually flash and go through a loop of an install page and the home page; I was unable to update the tools. I finally checked the Ghostery report, and paused the blocking since one of the objects blocked…
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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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Revision Control System, one of the grand daddies of them all. I still use it because its simple and does not have a network interface. Actually, I don’t use it anymore, because it is not a network solution. Links The featured image comes from an OStechnix article on VCS. An O’reilly five minute tutorial http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/rcs/…
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It can be summed up as a lack of future, cost to host and missing functionality.
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And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn’t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat? The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a…
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Obviously ERP has been around a while, in my researches, I came across these two open source ERP packages; they obviously run on distributed systems platform. This includes CRM, Accounts Payable and PoS. Also Project Accounting, Social Networking and an Issue Tracker, think I was looking at Project Accounting and the limited opportunity for innovation…
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