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"Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras." as it says on Wiki. Exif is part of most [...] Read more

Windows 11 requires that the target PC has TPM 2.0 or better, 64GB of drive space and uses a MS approved CPU. VM 7.x and 8.x have the ability to simulate TPM but anything earlier doesn't. Also, for Dev work it might be handy to install W11 onto an older PC to test software compatibility and so on. So how to do it? A quick 'Google' reveals (at [...] Read more

We recommend this excellent software to clients and use it ourselves - see here for more details. It is very versatile and the developers, led by Alex, offer great support. Having said that, sometimes the syntax of some of the esoteric parts of the package can take some working out - so what follows are a few 'Hints & Tips' SNMP Get and Tune [...] Read more

We've already spoken about tools to get material down from the Archive, but not about how material gets added to it. It seems that the Archive (IA) uses some sort of scheduled/algorithmic spider routine to capture stuff, but often these captures do not grab the entire site, thus leaving holes. It used to be possible to provide URLs to the IA to [...] Read more

GetSimple is Open Source and can be found on GitHub. So why a 'community' edition? Well, the 'formal' edition is quite slow to be updated and currently does not run happily on any version of php above 6.x. Many hosting companies are already using php 7.x or even 8.x, which will limit the use of GetSimple CMS. The same is true of some of the [...] Read more

Update An Open Source alternative to Archivarix is 'the wayback machine downloader', which can be found here. Now this works very well but does require some work by ther user. First, it is a Ruby Gem, so one will need Ruby installed first.See here for the latest version for Windows, - other flavours are available. So install Ruby - basically just [...] Read more

It's not uncommon to need to move a working web site from one site domain to another - company mergers, hosting sites fail and so on. Assuming one has regular backups then this should not be too difficult, but unfortunately GetSimple uses absolute rather than relative asset addressing. So it uses https:\\www.sitename\data\uploads\pic01.jpg and not [...] Read more

Just don't ask.. please don't. I had a client who presented me with several disk images (via Macrium) and who needed to know which image belonged to which machine & therefore client. Basically, somebody had not documented it correctly at build time. So, the solution is to mount the images in Macrium and then: 1) Copy the file: [...] Read more