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by andyking 17y ago
This blog post is just copied verbatim from: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/07/15/install-firefox-35-... - except the original has a better written introduction.
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by andyking 17y ago
I agree - why would I sit and watch a bloke talking for two minutes when I could skim-read a transcript of what he's saying in thirty seconds or so and have the info to quickly refer to later? It seems a bit like a gimmick for its own sake.
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by andyking 17y ago
Even in densely-populated European countries, 3G network coverage isn't anywhere near good enough to allow this sort of thing. FM (and DAB) radio will be around for a very long time - they're simply the most efficient way of delivering musi
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Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert(guardian.co.uk)
28 points by andyking 17y ago|37 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
I quite like ModX ( http://modxcms.com/ ) although it might be a little on the bloated side for many here. It's a pretty bog-standard PHP/MySQL package. Basically, you design and code up your pages as if they were static, then insert "templ
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by andyking 17y ago
Why is this "iPhone-like"? Every basic mobile phone I've owned since the internet arrived on mobiles has had this functionality when entering PINs and passwords.
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by andyking 17y ago
This is nothing but typical scaremongering from our good old British press. To the right hand side is a long, scrolling list of, er, job openings. (I've flagged it.)
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by andyking 17y ago
Networks in Britain routinely fall over on New Years' Eve...
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by andyking 17y ago
That sounds like a Viz top tip - "HACKERS: save money on torches by waving your expensive, brightly-lit mobile around in front of you while walking down the road in the dead of night."
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by andyking 17y ago
What does it take to write the ultimate newsworthy article? Stick the words "Hacker News" in the post title and you're well on your way.
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by andyking 17y ago
I know plenty of people with no degree who are working - some in quite highly-paid and fulfilling work. They've got there through being in the right place at the right time, internships, voluntary work and being good at what they do. I also
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by andyking 17y ago
The British network "3" (that's their name!) actively encourage it, selling dedicated Skype phones and running a fairly heavy ad campaign promoting "free calls forever": http://www.three.co.uk/Company/3G_Network/Skype Calls made via Skype
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by andyking 17y ago
It thinks I'm in Bradford, about 60 miles from where I really am, on my home O2 broadband connection. At work, it just says "United Kingdom". The geolocation on FF3.5 put me in a town five miles down the road at home. Very clever, consideri
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by andyking 17y ago
In Britain, unemployment is reported by the government at 7.2% - but for those aged between 16 and 24, it's hovering around the 20% mark. And that doesn't count people who are studying but can't find work to support themselves while at univ
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by andyking 17y ago
Not wanting to turn this into a lengthy debate over ad-blockers, but I tend to leave it switched on by default and make an exception for sites I visit regularly, value the content of and which don't go nuts with adverts. I find them fairly
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by andyking 17y ago
You really start to feel just how huge and bloated a lot of web pages have become when you get a mobile broadband dongle and are charged £15 per GB by Vodafone. One popular British forum site has some pages weighing in at upwards of 1MB eac
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Amazing Radio launches(mattdeegan.com)
1 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
Not forgetting those letters claiming that you have to renew your domain with some iffy company for £100. I wonder how many people fall for those and inadvertently transfer their domain to these scammers?
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by andyking 17y ago
Nominet in the UK have a far more enlightened approach - as long as you register as an individual, you can opt to have your info hidden at no extra cost. WHOIS just displays your name and the various technical details such as nameservers; a
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by andyking 17y ago
My name's ever so common - it's taken in all the popular domain extensions, all the major email services, most of the social sites (I got in early on Twitter!). It's a pain; I don't want to use a "nickname" and I really don't want numbers
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by andyking 17y ago
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/winterhill/winter-hill10.php This isn't far from where I live - I'd quite like to get into the engineering and particularly transmission side of radio (currently in programming although I have an amateur radio
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by andyking 17y ago
Fair point, but if I type "n" I could well end up with news.bbc.co.uk, nytimes.com or any number of other sites I've been looking at. There aren't many sites with the "yc" combination of letters.
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by andyking 17y ago
I love that bar, I don't even need to bookmark pages I visit a lot any more. All I need to do is type, say, "yc" and up pops this site. "tv" will show me tonight's TV listings. "gu" brings up the Guardian. If I wanted to come back to this s
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by andyking 17y ago
Sorry to veer off the topic, but I've never registered for the NYTimes and have always been able to read it online. Perhaps it's different for overseas users...?
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by andyking 17y ago
Everyone's got a bit bored of the recession. Quick, let's find a new mass panic.
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by andyking 17y ago
Be grateful that you don't want to look up the Scunthorpe United results.
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by andyking 17y ago
This doesn't seem very special. Where I live, you could put a pay-as-you-go SIM card from O2 (the iPhone's network, so no unlocking needed) into your phone and add "unlimited" internet access for about £7 a month. I don't have an iPhone, bu
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by andyking 17y ago
I have one of these in a drawer--it's a bog-standard GSM phone that takes SIM cards.
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by andyking 17y ago
Totally. I did it not so long ago (still am) and it's a brilliant confidence boost; everyone's there for the same reason, so it's not like just going to some club and hoping someone there will talk to you! You've got something in common, so
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by andyking 18y ago
That's at present. But while there'll only ever be one iPhone, probably stuck on one network, Android has the potential to be available on devices of all shapes, sizes and price points. And while at present, Android is exclusive to (the pre

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