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Revision as of 23:11, 28 December 2014
Woozle (known to a few select relatives as "Nick Staddon") is approximately half of The Hypertwins and has contact information here and a more substantial/general homepage here.
Reviews
- /email clients: brief comparison of a handful on Linux
- /LunchWorks: web site critique
Current Interests
Hardware
- /HP 4370 - a review in some depth
- Insignia IN-MP101
- to be reviewed
- 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
- 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
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:
- 1994: Yorkshire, England
- 2000(?): Hereford, AZ
Software problems
- /2013/10/26/network printing problem: Samba not playing well with printers
Software written
- working demos:
- AudioFerret: distributed jukebox
- SpamFerret: spam filter plug-in for MediaWiki
- VbzCart: shopping cart and order management web software
- W3TPL: scripting extension for MediaWiki
- WorkFerret: time-and-billing web app
- need reworking:
- FinanceFerret: a sensible personal money manager
- in design phase
- InstaGov: collaborative decisionmaking for large groups
- /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:
- /data.php
- /DataScript
- /datamgr.php
- /events.php
- /libmgr.php
- /menu.php
- /StringTemplate.php
- /trickyq.php: CAPTCHA stuff
- MediaWiki extension libs:
- /VB libraries: libraries for Visual Basic 5.0
- PHP:
- 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:
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:
Bug Reports
Vehicles
- 1967 Dodge Coronet 440 station wagon (stolen mid-1990s)
- 1983 Mercedes Benz 380 SEL
- 1987 Nissan Maxima
Non-Technical Projects
Notes
to be filed
- micro-blogging:
- 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:
- Cambrian: part of San Jose, CA
KDE development
Anonymous (read-only) svn access to KDE:
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