Category: NZTekonverse -> Uncategorised
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Shoddy electrical standards cause accidents and fires
There’s hardly a month that goes past when FENZ is not announcing that someone’s house, school or other premises has been burned down by a faulty electrical power board. This never needed to have happened, because when these devices first started to become widely available in NZ, back in my childhood, they were almost invariably…
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Bye Bye Blogger
This blog is now closing and moving to WordPress. This is due to Google’s arrogance in forcing everyone on Blogger to move to a bug ridden new user interface that they should have spent more time testing and fixing before they made it mandatory. Google has also been dictatorial in forcibly removing email notifications on…
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The end of NZ Rail Maps
This post isn’t in the NZ Rail Maps blog, nor is it tagged as NZ Rail Maps because it is not an official announcement for the project. I do however expect NZ Rail Maps will last a few more years and then be mothballed. Exactly how many years I can’t say. But after a break…
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Setting a custom content width on Blogger’s Simple template
Most of my Blogger blogs use the Simple template; I haven’t got much time or inclination to scroll through masses of templates and experiment. You can use the theme designer or you can directly edit the HTML to change some settings. On some of my blogs I have directly edited the HTML to set a…
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Lubuntu LXQT still not ready for release, but can be manually installed.
As it will be generally known, the Lubuntu community are working towards migrating their platform to Lxqt. I have been testing a whole lot of VMs running Lxqt as a desktop environment and it looks good even if it is incomplete. I have run it on my bedroom computer using a test install but there…