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Continue reading →: Power UP @ Manchester Museum of Science and IndustryPower UP is a video games event running at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (Twitter: @msimanchester) between the 3rd and 19th August 2018. The official website for the event is https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/whats-on/power-up Power UP celebrates video games by allowing visitors to play video games from over the past 40 years.…
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Continue reading →: Cron – or a general update
I’ve spent the last few blog entries going over Cron stuff and think the issue ( DISPLAY=:0 played a part) was down to remote accessing and the way sessions display screens. I won’t go into too much detail tonight as I’m hoping that my work may appear somewhere else soon…
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Continue reading →: Cron Not Displaying GUI Applications / Terminal Display (Raspberry Pi / Linux)After yesterdays post around using a remote desktop connection to connect from my Mac to my Pi I decided to add some cron jobs on the Pi so that it would reboot every night and after rebooting it would log in (automatically using raspi-config settings) and then fire me up a…
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Continue reading →: Remote Desktop (Raspberry Pi)I normally SSH to my Raspberry Pi as I like using the terminal, however a recent task meant that I had to use a remote desktop connection to the Pi so that I could take screen grabs of the Pi desktop whilst on my Mac. The first part of this…
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Continue reading →: CodeUp Salford / Humble Bundle Linux
I had a bit of spare time this evening and so headed over to CodeUp Salford (Twitter: @codeupsalford) to listen to Drew Morgan talk about Python. As my regular readers know, I enjoy Python. Heck it is currently my go to language to bounce ideas around in, and it was great…
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Continue reading →: SITE UPDATE: GeekTechV2 – A Young Person’s View
To give a new author a chance to reach an audience and share their view/knowledge of programming I am proud to announce that http://www.geektechstuff.com is the home of geektechv2 – hopefully some articles on Scratch will be coming soon!
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Continue reading →: My Introduction
Hi I’m geektechv2. I’m going to write about scratch etc. I will post soon. For now I m signing out!
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Office 365 Endpoints V2 (Python)The Microsoft Office 365 Endpoints V1 program did a good job of outputting the endpoint data into CSV files, but what if you wanted the URLs outputted for use as a PAC file? A Proxy Auto Configuration file tells a proxy how to handle traffic depending on URL, host or IP.…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Office 365 Endpoints V1 (Python)Tonight I’m having a brief look at Microsoft Office 365 Endpoints; https://support.office.com/en-us/article/managing-office-365-endpoints-99cab9d4-ef59-4207-9f2b-3728eb46bf9a?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#ID0EACAAA=4._Web_service in my current favourite programming language – Python. My target is to be able to generate the various Endpoint details into an updating PAC or WPAD file. Then I will look at the same in PowerShell. I’ve used the SMTP…
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Continue reading →: PDF Merge – With GUI V2 (Python)A small change to yesterday’s PDF Merge with GUI. The below now asks the user how many PDFs they want to merge, and then loops through the process until that many PDFs are merged into one PDF. #!/usr/bin/python3 # geektechstuff # libraries to import from tkinter import * from tkinter import…
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