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by andyking 17y ago
I don't have a credit card, only a Maestro (used to be Switch) card. Google Checkout stopped accepting these a few months ago.
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by andyking 17y ago
The reason the phone company can't use your phone number the minute you cancel your contract is so that there will not be a large number of people dialing that number and getting someone else than the one they expect. Last time I took out
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by andyking 17y ago
Is that wall of text really how Wikipedia administrators sort things out amongst themselves? Did they have a competition to design the most intimidating user interface known to man? It's impenetrable.
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by andyking 17y ago
I was looking the other day for the webcam in the nearby village of, er, Flash. It took me a few seconds to realise why my searches for "Flash webcam" weren't finding it.
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by andyking 17y ago
And if it works with wi-fi at 2.6GHz, why would it not work with the more broadly available and higher-powered 3G cell signals at 2.1GHz?
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by andyking 17y ago
That blog post makes no sense and borders on the offensive - "[she] obviously does not give a damn if her state were filled by Iranian shit" is the sort of thing I'd expect to read on a far-right website. Am I missing something here?
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by andyking 17y ago
Ever since I got followed down the street after buying a mobile phone a few years ago, I've always taken one of those big reusable supermarket bags with me to buy anything pricey. People are far less likely to look twice at you if you've go
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by andyking 17y ago
They seem to have studied at the Ryanair school of publicity.
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Opera 10.5 pre-alpha released for Linux - no longer uses Qt(my.opera.com)
2 points by andyking 17y ago|1 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
The Firefox menu in the top-left corner looks remarkably similar to the O menu that's appeared in the latest Opera alpha ( http://goo.gl/Chfb ). I like the way a lot of the cruft from 1990s Windows applications is starting to disappear from
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by andyking 17y ago
There's AdSweep at http://adsweep.org/ - I've never managed to get it to work on Opera 10 under Ubuntu, but I find it works well on Chrome and plenty of people have given it good reviews.
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by andyking 17y ago
At our small office, there's currently a four-foot snowman standing in a doorway. It makes me do a double-take when I come across it first thing in the morning before I turn the lights on. I think I'd turn and run if I came across some of t
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by andyking 17y ago
My ISP's DNS server (in the UK) quite frequently goes down or slow - it's useful to have an alternative to switch to. Normally, I change to OpenDNS then change back when the ISP one is back up to avoid the ads. However, since changing to Go
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by andyking 17y ago
I'd love to do the same, but in many areas of the UK (like mine) both Ceefax and Teletext have already disappeared. It's being removed along with the analogue TV signal region-by-region until the final transmitters are turned off in 2012.
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by andyking 17y ago
I've never had to subscribe to read the NY Times from Britain. Is it different for overseas visitors?
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by andyking 17y ago
I've had two kernel updates (40+ MB downloads and a required reboot) in the past month or so on the latest Ubuntu, but in general you're right, these updates aren't usually this common. OpenOffice updates seem to be the worst in Ubuntu; a f
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by andyking 17y ago
The simplicity of this site makes it far more conducive to mobile browsing than, say, BBC News or the NYT. Some of the indentation on comments can be a bit of a pain, but it's perfectly workable on the Opera Mini browser I use.
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by andyking 17y ago
How many countries do you list first, though? I find those forms annoying - the US and Canada sit at the top of the list, but then to find the UK I have to go down and look near the United Arab Emirates or Uruguay or some such place. But th
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by andyking 17y ago
They're already all but gone. There will be an election by next May and they are expected to lose heavily - there is currently a spate of legislation they're attempting to shove through in a rush before they're booted out. However, I can't
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by andyking 17y ago
In the UK, some of the mobile phone shops are already selling netbooks with SIM card slots in the bottom for direct access to mobile broadband.
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by andyking 17y ago
If it'll only work when you're somewhere with wi-fi, that immediately cripples its usefulness. Amazon realised this with the Kindle - that's why they went to the considerable trouble of dealing with the telcos to include a SIM card and conn
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A novel with a twist - it's all on Twitter(manchesterconfidential.com)
1 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
Visitors yesterday to the website I edit (for a mainstream local radio station, so likely to be one of the least "techie" audiences out there): IE8: 28%; IE7: 27%; IE6: 19%; FF3.5: 16%; FF3: 7%; Others: 3%
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by andyking 17y ago
I agree - I really like Chrome (and Opera, for what it's worth) and I can generally cope with the normal ads on most sane web sites these days. But some sites go over the top and a few minutes of looking at flashing, flickering, CPU-hogging
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by andyking 17y ago
I've had the same experience with one of those cheap "mobile broadband" USB dongles that have flooded the market. Windows: plug in the dongle, wait for it to pretend to be a CD drive and auto-run an installer, wait for the flaky Vodafone in
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by andyking 17y ago
The "new Mighty Mouse"? The Mighty Mouse was awful - this looks significantly better with no silly little scrolly ball thing to get clogged up and stop working after six months.
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by andyking 17y ago
I like the fact that in Montenegro, they're changing from .yu to .me. Cute.
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by andyking 17y ago
I originally found the video via this blog, which I'm subscribed to in Google Reader. I'd much rather reward the bloke who made me aware of it with a few hits than link to some anonymous Youtube page stuffed with inane comments. Both pages
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The last word on Lily Allen and her anti-filesharing campaign(beatcroft.blogspot.com)
68 points by andyking 17y ago|56 comments
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Goodbye call centres? O2 launch customer-powered mobile phone network(bitterwallet.com)
1 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments

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