User:Woozle

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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

Shelved Investigations

/two-way http

Hardware

car rental reviews:
- /2017 Chrysler Pacifica
- /2017 Hyundai Sonata
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

Software issues & setups

/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