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Bitdefender Review: False Positive Handling

Sun, 08/11/2020 - 09:25 -- James Oakley

The antivirus marketplace for protecting Windows computers is crowded. Go back 15 years, and there were two or three well established players whose products were becoming increasing bloated and slow, and then a handful of new providers that were leaner but with varied effectiveness.

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How to: Shrink image size for OpenStack VM to the storage used

Fri, 17/07/2020 - 10:30 -- James Oakley
How to shrink OpenStack disk space

I have recently solved a problem which may trouble others, so I share the problem and its solution with you here.

The world of the problem: OpenStack on RamNode

There are a number of web hosting providers I'm fond of (having tried many others I'd never touch again). One of those good ones is RamNode. They sell many kinds of hosting products, but I use them when I want low cost virtual private servers that I can rely upon.

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Edit IPN settings on a standard PayPal account

Mon, 04/05/2020 - 10:30 -- James Oakley

Another "note to self" post.

PayPal have changed things so that you need a business account to set up an "IPN" notification endpoint. In their own words:

Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is a PayPal feature that sends messages about payments (and other transactional events) directly from PayPal to your website(s)' back-end systems.

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Retrospect Error 530: Client not found

Tue, 28/04/2020 - 10:30 -- James Oakley

For many years I have used Retrospect for backing up our home computers. It's very important to have a thought-through backup strategy, that includes keeping more than one copy of your data, including at least one copy that is "off-site". If disaster strikes, such as your computer hard-drive failing, you wouldn't want to lose all your documents, photos and possibly emails.

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Drupal 8 Development / Deployment Workflow

Mon, 05/08/2019 - 12:52 -- James Oakley

I've been putting off learning how to build sites in Drupal 8, and migrating my existing Drupal 7 sites over to Drupal 8. Why? Drupal 8 uses a lot of new tools. I want to learn how to set up a Drupal 8 site in the "right" (optimal) way so that I don't incur technical debt for myself later on. That means I have a lot of tools to learn. That takes time, which I don't have a lot of. So I've procrastinated.

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How To: Free up space on low storage cheap Android phone

Mon, 15/07/2019 - 10:30 -- James Oakley

I've owned a number of Android phones over the years. Some have been relatively high-end, with good RAM and storage space for their day. Others have been budget models, that come with the bare minimum to get things done. They're slightly slow and laggy to use, you can't install everything on it, but they do the job.

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Supertuxkart

Sun, 12/05/2019 - 10:30 -- James Oakley
Supertuxkart

After over 10 years of development, SuperTuxKart has released version 1.0.

It's been a long road. In December 2009, the long task of porting over to an entirely new codebase, Irrlicht, was complete. In December 2014, a new version was released with a new graphics rendering engine that made the 3d graphics faster and a lot more realistic. But still the versions were numbered 0.x.

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