The Android share menu has been a great feature for me, for example, when I am viewing a cute pick of my cat, I can click share and send it direct to my fambam though telegram! However, recently things suddenly went very wrong: sensitive work related contacts and people who are no longer in my […]
Help I forgot to make my user an administrator when installing fedora
When installing fedora I almost always forget to tick the “make user an administrator” box. Then when I want to install some software or update later I get a rather morose ticking off from my terminal… “Username is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”. Just what every girl wants to hear… one […]
How to open gparted in fedora 25 (wayland): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Today’s task list involved installing Fedora 25 (yay!) on my new computer and reformatting some hard drives to use as backup disks. The install was fine however I couldn’t seem to get gparted started (poet / know it). Gparted is the tool I find most useful for dealing with hard drives, partitions etc, but apparently […]
How to randomly select data from a column in libreoffice
This is a up-to-date variation of some docs I found useful, the original was made by johnSUN. ContentsMy problemGeneric version of problemHow to get your random sampleCreate your random numbersDefine database rangeSort the dataSelect your sample My problem Today I was researching for a possible change in the phpList UI: right now the behaviour of […]
A meditation on emigration and asylum seekers: Frances Bruno Catalano Statue and Ralph McTell song
“And above all the roar of the town was the blue sky, I could hear the birds singing for the joy of the day And there was no support from the city forthcoming, No sympathy numbing your going away”. — Ralph McTell
What are these plants?
Images of houseplants I am seeking to identify
A discussion of website models for Open Source projects with OpenSAAS element
This blog contains a discussion of website models for Open Source projects with Software as a Service (SAAS) element, and uses four real projects as examples.
Walking with my dogs in Spring Wood
Spring wood is a small area of ancient woodland just a few minutes drive from my house. At this time of year the whole area is filled with Bluebells and Wild Garlic. It’s very beautiful and strange, and also the dog’s really enjoy it. This post contains some lovely photographs.
Protect yourself from Thunderbird email auto-complete when you start a new job
I had heard tell of dramatic/humiliating problems caused by erroneous email auto-complete before, but never been personally affected. I recently discovered that, while social embarrassments are… embarrassing, when you leave one employer and join a new one, the stakes are raised and the problems caused could easily have wider repercussions. I decided to sort out […]
Image and Attribution Identification Game using Blockhash and Elog.io
I heard Jonas Öberg speak about blockhash and elog.io (since mothballed) at Fosdem2015. The general purpose of these tools is to allow users to make attribution of CC licensed images easy. First they identify CC licensed images when they are used on-line, the tools then match the image with a record in a central database […]