User:Woozle

About Moi

I host, operate, and do most of the editing here on HTYP, though I welcome other contributors. IRL I am sometimes known as "Nick"; there is more complete contact information here and a more substantial/general homepage here.

HTYP was one of about three wiki projects I started at about the same time, in 2005 (the other two being Issuepedia and our family site, The HypertWiki).

I also similarly operate the "Sister Sites" listed in the navbar on the left, as well as The Center for Wingnut Remedial Education, and I do hosting and occasional site maintenance for LessigWiki.

I have been physically transitioning to female since mid-2016; there is more information about that here.

The rest of this page is in need of reorganization and updating...

Reviews

• /email clients: brief comparison of a handful on Linux
• /LunchWorks: web site critique

Active Interests

• better /development tools, especially if they're libre/open
• Trying to get /dovecot working on rizzo-3
• /transition

Miscellaneous

• Metacurrency Project
• Diaspora

Shelved Investigations

• /two-way http

Hardware

• car rental reviews:
  • /2017 Chrysler Pacifica
  • /2017 Hyundai Sonata
  • /2017 Ford Escape
• TP-Link TL-WA801ND
• /Amcrest webcam
• /HP 4370 - a review in some depth
• Insignia IN-MP101
• to be reviewed
  • /Pioneer DEH-3400UB
  • /Pioneer DEH-X5500HD
  • Kenmore 44102 -- works as well as the old unit did
  • Dual XDM6400 -- restarts tracks from beginning when playing from USB; 382-track limit
  • Dual XDM6820 -- no inter-track gap on audio CDs (good); haven't tried MP3s yet
  • AcerScan 620UT -- still using this in 2009 2017
  • Sansa Fuze by SanDisk (manual (PDF))
    • 2008-05-21 Sandisk Sansa View on Ubuntu Linux: don't let go of the "left" button too soon or it won't work...
• stuff I use and may eventually review
  • Schumacher 75/20/10/2 Amp Car Battery Charger

Homes

• 2002-present: Durham, NC
• 1992-2002: Athens, GA
• 1990-1991: Durham, NC
• 1985-1989: Providence, RI
• 1985 (summer): Ann Arbor, MI
• 1967-1985: Durham, NC
  • 1973-1974: Oxford, England
• 1965-1967: Toronto

Visited

• 1973-1974: Oxford, England
• 1991:
  • Vienna, Austria
  • Szombathely, Hungary
  • Paris, France
• 1994: Yorkshire, England
• 2000(?): Hereford, AZ

Software issues & setups

• /FOSS video editing - threads: [1] [2]
  • OpenShot: no way to save export profiles (this is kind of a key operation)
• /M-Audio Delta 66 and Linux
• /MySQL migration
• /kdenlive
• /Mastodon/setup
• /Friendica/2017 upgrade
• /2017/08/16/https subdomain issue
• /2016/11/13/GMail silently dropping messages from cloud2
• /2016/02/15/Postfix bounce-spam
• 2016-02-14 ownCloud/client/install error
• /PHP multi-select bug
• /2013/10/26/network printing problem: Samba not playing well with printers
• /2005/06/04/Cool Edit Pro vs. Adobe

Software written

• working to various extents:
  • Ferreteria: web application framework
    • VbzCart: shopping cart and order management web software
    • WorkFerret: time-and-billing web app
  • W3TPL: scripting extension for MediaWiki
• under construction
  • /PostFerret
  • /Snorp
• need reworking:
  • AudioFerret: client-server jukebox
  • FinanceFerret: a sensible personal money manager
  • SpamFerret: spam filter plug-in for MediaWiki
• in design phase
  • InstaGov: collaborative decisionmaking for large groups
  • /HostFerret: Greenmine module for doing various things on web hosts
  • /UserNuke: MW extension to wipe out spam-user data
  • /StockFerret: attempt to simplify part of VbzCart for inventory management
• back burner:
  • FeedFerret: social RSS aggregation
  • MailFerret: a better email program
  • /TaskFerret: I don't know if this is going to be useful or not
• Libraries:
  • PHP:
    • /ModLoader: code inclusion management
    • /trickyq.php: CAPTCHA stuff
  • /VB libraries: libraries for Visual Basic 5.0
• Debugging code:
  • /port listener: listens to a given port, reports connections, and displays received data.
• /kscope, a screensaver that works in everything from Windows 3.x to WinXP
• Bug comments:
  • MediaWiki: Bug 39507 - Upload by URL fails without giving any error

App Wishlists

• /internet radio
• /Ultimate Audio Editor

Configuration

Configuration files and log excerpts:

• /files/dovecot/dovecot.conf
• /files/dovecot/auth.d/01-dovecot-postfix.auth
• /log dumps/2011/06/08/0743

Trying to fix things:

• /nginx

Bug Reports

• 500 error in db upgrade stage due to output buffer reset in stdout (MediaWiki 1.17 installer)

Vehicles

• 1967 Dodge Coronet 440 station wagon (stolen mid-1990s)
• 1983 Mercedes Benz 380 SEL
• 1987 Nissan Maxima

Archive

• Neural Rating Thing: partial draft of what eventually became the core of InstaGov
  • Originally posted in 2011, but seems earlier than that.

Non-Technical Projects

• /Josh

Notes

• /linkdump

to be filed

• micro-blogging:
  • identi.ca: software is open-source
  • Twitter
• Maker Faire North Carolina: file under issuepedia:citizen empowerment and something like home manufacturing here
• Demand Studios: We're hiring freelance writers
• crowdsourcing:
  • Aardvark
  • PredictionBook (also file under prediction registries)
• Wikimedia Strategic Planning
• WebCalendar:
  • WebCalendar wiki
  • WebCalendar Downloads
  • WebCalendar Upgrading Notes
• Cambrian: part of San Jose, CA

KDE development

Anonymous (read-only) svn access to KDE:

• svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdevelop

Relevant web pages:

• kde.techbase:Welcome to KDE TechBase
• kde.techbase:Getting Started/Sources/Using Subversion with KDE
• kde.techbase:Getting Started/Build/KDE4
• kde.techbase:Development/Tutorials/Plasma/WallpaperHelloWorld
• source code for slideshow wallpaper on KDE 4
• wikipedia:Plasma (KDE): an explanation of what it is

Known Editors

• User:Blathering1 (contribs, talk)
• User:hkhenson (contribs, talk)