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Updated Blogs

Julian Knight — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:00:35 +0000

Hi to everyone who has followed this blog and my other blogs (Living With Linux and my Development Blog) for a while. The Living With Linux blog is now redirected to the [Linux][1] category on this blog and the development blog redirected to the [Development][2] category. For a long time I’ve been meaning to consolidate the blogs into a single blog and move the main blog from Blogger to WordPress. Well, that has now happened so welcome to the new, updated blog. There may be one or two missing posts and some missing comments but I will fix that as time allows. I also intend to move back to using Disquss for comments which I think gives a much better reader experience and reach. So hopefully, I’ll be more inclined to make better use of the blog again now and I will be trying to bring together not only the larger posts on this blog but also my short posts on Twitter and Diigo in a more consistent and coherent form. [1]: topics/operating-systems/linux “All posts related to the Linux operating system” [2]: /topics/development “All posts related to development and programming”

Hello WordPress! My blogs now combined

Julian Knight — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:39:18 +0000

I’ve moved my several Blogger blogs over to a single WordPress blog as I can take better control. Unfortunately, I’m guessing that some comments may get lost in the move – sorry about that. Anyway, you will now find blog entries about all areas of IT that take my fancy including Windows, Linux, Web & Office development, Identity Management and doubtless lots of other random stuff. My blogs are mainly for me so that I can keep things I’d like to remember (or rant about!) in one place, if it’s useful to you as well, please let me know in the comments. Regards, Julian Knight

New Comments System

Julian Knight — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:50:00 +0000

I’ve moved my comments over to [Disqus][1] from the default Blogger comments. It means that you don’t have to log in to comment and you get much better tracking of discussions. My other blog “[Much Ado About IT][2]” has had this for a while and it seems to work really well.

Unfortunately, it does mean that I’ve lost any existing comments – sorry to those who have commented in the past. [1]: http://disqus.com [2]: http://it.knightnet.org.uk

Easier posting to Blogger Blogs (Zoundry Raven)

Julian Knight — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:09:00 +0000

Just a quick note to recommend some software that makes writing blog entries very much easier. The software is called [Zoundry Raven][1] and I’m using the latest beta (under Windows 7 beta). The editor is WYSIWYG and has a much more sensible set of standards than the built-in Blogger editor (including the beta version). It also allows you to publish the same entry to multiple blogs if needed. It has image, link and tag handling too and it makes blogging rather more pleasurable. **

Update 2009-02-28

** : A couple of things I wanted to add to this. Firstly, Raven isn’t actually in beta! Secondly, that the more I use it, the more I like it! It is very extensible too, I’ve just added a tag search for Diigo, the online bookmarking service that is miles better than del.icio.us and it only took 2 minutes. I have also found that I rarely need to manually adjust the html, quite a change from the native Blogger interface. Finally, adding images is a breeze; you can copy and paste and as long as you have some storage defined (I’m just using a free Google Picassa account at the moment) and Raven will automatically upload the image and sort out the links – magic! Well done Zoundry. One final thing. Raven doesn’t have all that good a support for proxy servers at the moment. So if you are behind a Microsoft ISA Server proxy (very common in large organisations), you might need to use something like [CNTLM][2]. I’ll blog about that another time I think.

Technorati : Software, Windows Del.icio.us : Software, Windows Diigo Tag Search : Software, Windows

What goes here?

Julian Knight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:59:00 +0000

I’ve already got a few things to blog about so expect some articles shortly covering the following:

Tablet PC’s

I’ve just brought an IBM X61 (on eBay) after much deliberation (we’re talking several years here!). I’ve wanted a Slate (e.g. no keyboard) for ages but they go for silly prices generally. So now I have an X61 to go with the monster 17″ Dell M1710.
Microsoft InfoPath

An XML-based form designer and filler with rich interface options (including Tablet ink support).
Microsoft Groove

A peer-to-peer collaboration tool a bit like a mini SharePoint for workgroups without needing a central server. Update 2009-02-13: Not forgetting:
Microsoft OneNote

The ultra-useful note-taking tool.
Microsoft Windows 7

Doubtless what Windows Vista should have been in the first place!

Welcome

Julian Knight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Hi, here is my new blog. I’ve been meaning to set up a general IT blog for some time and this is it.

This will be a collection of thoughts, ideas I’ve had and research I’ve done.

You can also look at my [blog about Linux][1] and my [personal homepage][2]. [1]: http://linux.knightnet.org.uk/ [2]: http://www.knightnet.org.uk/

Update

Julian Knight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Hi, thought I’d better put an update on here as to why I haven’t done any posts here recently. Well, I’ve not done much with Linux recently. My OpenSUSE 11.0 desktop machine works and does pretty much everything I ask of it. At the moment, that is largely managing my photographs and not much else. This is because I’m out and about on a big project and so I’m using my monster laptop (Dell M1710) and that is running Vista as I have to be able to run Outlook, OneNote and other MS Office applications at full speed. So, check out my general IT Blog: “Much Ado About IT”.

Showing a less than symbol in a Blogger post

Julian Knight — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:30:00 +0000

This took me ages to sort out so here is a reminder. If you want to post a less-than symbol in a Blogger entry (for example in some code or a math formula), you cannot use the standard HTML entity “<” as Blogger cannot cope with it for some reason. Instead use the hexadecimal equivalent “& # 60 ;” (NB: I’ve put spaces in so that Blogger doesn’t turn it back into a symbol!). That works fine and shows the symbol (< ) as expected. Also note that normally you can just enter a <> blocks or where there is no space after it. Not Linux related I know 😉

Welcome

Julian Knight — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:06:00 +0000

Having finally made the switch on my personal machines from Windows to Linux early last year, I decided I’d like to share my experiences of “living with Linux”. As an IT professional, I’ll probably never be completely free of Windows, I use it all the time at work so I’ll also be looking for tools that work across both platforms. Regards, Julian.