Recent Blog Posts

And now I can post without it getting lost ...

By Lester Caine
Tuesday 18 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants

This is created, saved and the new post displayed without me having to manually enter the new post id!

Definitely on a Roll

By Lester Caine
Tuesday 18 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants

Started working on fixing some of the niggles in Bitweaver. First step was to address the warnings that Firefox throws up when loading pages such as 'zoom is deprecated' and 'cookies need samesite entry'. In addition, ckeditor has always worked, but with warnings about already assigned or missing.

'zoom' is a css entry, and the pointers given lead to it needing to be replaced with 'transform: scale(1)'. Some of these changes do seem contorted, but hit…

Had a great day ...

By Lester Caine
Sunday 16 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants

Lets leave out the summary and just get stuck in.

Few jobs I thought I would get on with yesterday. Starting point was to monitor if anybody is accessing my sites and given the nginx logs are growing fast something is, but difficult to see who. So what is available to parse the files? A quick search put GoAccess as the top option, so I tried to get a copy loaded since it's not in the basic openSUSE setup of packages, but it is on the ex…

Advanced Idiots not only Artificial

By Lester Caine
Saturday 15 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Until systems are able to learn from their mistakes they can not be described as Intelligent

Catching up on other projects

By Lester Caine
Friday 14 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Things that I should be getting on with

Television Fun

By Lester Caine
Monday 10 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Living with a Smart TV

Dealing with CD's in openSUSE linux

By Lester Caine
Saturday 01 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants

Once again I've lost a period of work because it did not save. I think that it is down to taking too long and I need to save every 30 minutes or so ... I think. Anyway now to try and recreate what was a nice set of notes :(

So why does it take so long to rip a CD compared to a DVD? MakeMKV will process a DVD in several minutes, but does not provide the correct names for each chapter, while a CD is displayed with track names but which may take 20 time…

Ongoing medical issues ...

By Lester Caine
Sunday 26 of January, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Just how many people are in the chain that I am waiting to hear from ...

Little niggles that need fixing

By Lester Caine
Saturday 18 of January, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Documenting the things I need to address that keep catching me out

eBay cons ...

By Lester Caine
Friday 03 of January, 2025
Posted to Lester's Rants
Don't believe anything eBay sellers say?