andyking

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by andyking 14y ago
I couldn't get used to Unity and didn't want to stick with the increasingly antiquated and patched-up 10.04, so I made the switch a while ago at home to Xubuntu. It's not the perfect desktop, but I've got it almost how I want it, and it l
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by andyking 14y ago
My ISP doesn't even provide its own DNS servers - their DHCP dishes out 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 to customers. Is this a good thing, or just them being cheap?
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by andyking 14y ago
Excellent. I currently use a local ISP, because it's the only way I can get a decent speed where I live (there's a local FTTC network called Digital Region). But I'm likely to be moving out of their coverage area at some point, so I'll add
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by andyking 14y ago
This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Intern
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by andyking 14y ago
Another day, another ban. Let's just ban the lot...
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by andyking 14y ago
I thought this, too, when I started a job in a city centre for the first time - great, I'll take the train, and get so much work done on my commute instead of driving! No - it's impossible to work on a rattly, wobbly old train, standing u
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by andyking 14y ago
I don't see an ad: $ cat /etc/motd Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
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by andyking 14y ago
Only if you're already public enough with your political views, the name of your kids' school and so on to stick that data on the back of your car anyway. If you really wanted to keep your politics secret, you wouldn't put a political stick
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by andyking 14y ago
I guess I'm lucky - I'd never looked before, but I checked, and I live in a very small town, about 50 feet from where Google Maps places my town name. I get your point - if you live in North London, then getting directions from "London" is
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by andyking 14y ago
I just do it by entering the name of my town rather than my full address, on the basis that I already know how to get out of my own town, and only really need detailed directions once I get to the other end of the journey.
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by andyking 14y ago
Yes - on my network, Vodafone UK, these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head: *#1345# - gives you your credit balance if you're on a prepaid account *#100# - your phone number *#101# - the current network date and time
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by andyking 14y ago
I do this - all my technology is in another room of the house. My computer, phone, TV, none of it is in my bedroom. I just plug my phone into a charger in another room overnight. The only concession to technology in my bedroom is a DAB cloc
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by andyking 14y ago
of course some areas of Scotland are long term grindingly poor and recieive lots of start up credits My area in northern England is like this - you can't move for constant advertisements for "start-up events," in the local newspapers, on
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by andyking 14y ago
I get dependency errors on Chrome under Ubuntu 12.04, when I do a dpkg -i google-chrome-stable-whatever.deb. But a quick apt-get -f install after I get those errors sorts it out.
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by andyking 14y ago
But then, the time is wrong on your phone - which could cause problems far worse than "having to wait for a new feature on a mobile game."
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by andyking 14y ago
I'll likely get downvoted so far I pop up in New Zealand for this - but zzzzz. These expensive spats between huge companies just aren't interesting, or in any way relevant, to my life or business. They're just billion-dollar corporations fl
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by andyking 14y ago
Why did you need a loan to buy a car? I just waited a couple of months until I'd saved enough to buy a small, fairly old car for cash. It's not a fancy car, but it is reliable, cheap to run, cheap to insure, and costs me nothing in terms of
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by andyking 14y ago
Because the stability of work at present means it's not practical to do so. I could lose my job at any moment - and if I've bought a house, I'm stuck in the same city, looking for a limited amount of work. I rent at present, it's not ideal,
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by andyking 14y ago
I don't have £100,000 in student debt - because I didn't go to university. I'm not rich, but I'm financially independent. The only thing that would push me to get a nicer car would be better reliability, or better gas mileage - which both s
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by andyking 14y ago
I own a car now, simply because I tried relying on public transport for a year and found the experience pretty depressing - it makes your day so very long (I was basically doing 6am-7pm including commuting) and loses you flexibility. I fell
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by andyking 14y ago
I use it all the time - 3G coverage is patchy where I live, and Opera Mini is far quicker and more reliable over a slow mobile connection than trying to load a bloated 300k+ page over a 12kbps GPRS link.
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New Apple patent could kill commercial radio(mediauk.com)
13 points by andyking 14y ago|19 comments
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by andyking 14y ago
I did the same - I'd been clinging onto the outdated 10.04 LTS for some time, because I didn't want to move to either Unity or Gnome 3 (tried both for a fortnight each, in daily use, and just couldn't be as productive on either). Eventually
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by andyking 14y ago
Take a look at LIBOR (somebody should, 'cause the mean-stream media has hardly mentioned it) There has been extensive coverage of this scandal - and widespread vilification of Barclays and their leadership - in the British mainstream medi
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by andyking 14y ago
The last few rack-mounted servers we bought came with DVD writers , which seemed a little redundant to me. In our case, we only ever use the DVD drive once, to install CentOS, and then it's closed up and never used again. I can't imagine a
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by andyking 14y ago
In the UK at least, the data comes from INRIX (ex Trafficlink), who also supply the traffic news to the vast majority of local and national radio stations. They have a network of cameras and monitoring stations around the country. I don't b
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by andyking 14y ago
I live in rural Yorkshire, and there's a village about five miles from me where broadband is not available - at all. There's no FTTC/H, no ADSL, no 3G coverage from any network, nothing. Residents still use either dial-up, or expensive, hig
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by andyking 14y ago
Digital TV switchover has killed a lot of the mega-power transmitters, though. In the North West, for instance, Winter Hill used to run around 1,000kW for each of the analogue TV channels. Post-DSO, this is down to 100kW per multiplex, as t
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by andyking 14y ago
Comment by jgrahamc that has been inexplicably dead-ed: Her actual tweets read: CPS owe my constituent @pauljchambers and the country a huge apology for a shameful prosecution that should never have been brought Two years of a man's life,
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by andyking 14y ago
I'm in the market for a new desktop monitor right now, and I'm finding it really difficult to find a 4:3 aspect ratio at a decent price. I'm not using the computer to watch movies, it's a PC, not a TV, and I value my vertical screen space.

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