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by andyking 15y ago
Why so much love for Namecheap on here? As far as I can tell, they've simply been in the right place at the right time and done some clever marketing in response to GoDaddy's general idiocy. But for a few days now, HN has almost read like a
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by andyking 15y ago
Presumably France, since that's where they're based.
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by andyking 15y ago
The only time I ever had a fraudulent transaction on my card, it wasn't stopped until they'd wiped out my account by gambling £1,900 of my money on Littlewoods Online. The bank never stopped my account, the criminals only stopped taking mon
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by andyking 15y ago
Seconded Gandi. I've moved my domains to them over the past year as they've come up for renewal and I can't fault the service provided. They aren't the cheapest, but they aren't exactly pricey either, and I feel safe in the knowledge that m
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by andyking 15y ago
You might want to consider XFCE as well - the look and feel is very similar to Gnome 2 before they started adding all the bling. The deal-breaker for me with XFCE is the lack of network folder support in the default Thunar file manager, but
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by andyking 15y ago
This happens in most countries - I think it's Vodafone in the UK which reads out the recipient's phone number very slowly before letting you leave a voicemail. It goes something like "Welcome to the Vodafone voicemail messaging service for
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by andyking 15y ago
It differs between different networks, but when I send a message from my Virgin Mobile in the US, I pay along with the recipient. Mobile tariffs in the US, especially pay as you go, make me feel lucky to live in Britain.
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by andyking 15y ago
In a similar vein, this striking anti-gun commercial by a local radio station in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAnmqdfGQY
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by andyking 15y ago
I have similar issues - our website is in WordPress and despite the ease-of-use of this particular package, a lot of people just don't seem to get it. Some staff and volunteers pick it up quite easily, if they haven't already seen or used i
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by andyking 15y ago
Is it just me for whom the scrolling "ITworld LIVE" thing just inside my field of vision makes the article really difficult to concentrate on? Why do I need to know that someone's just joined their site, or 'shared' a completely different a
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by andyking 15y ago
Top Gear is an entertainment show with an agenda all of its own (I don't know if you're in Britain, but Jeremy Clarkson is a well-known self-described 'controversial' right-winger with his own column in the Sun.) I wouldn't take anything th
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by andyking 15y ago
The very same thing is happening in Britain, where many local universities have admissions and recruitment officers actually based in non-EU countries, particularly in China where the value of a British degree is played up heavily. Students
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by andyking 15y ago
I suspect WordAds support will appear as an update to Jetpack (WP.com powered stats etc. for self-hosted sites - http://jetpack.me/ ) before too long.
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by andyking 15y ago
It's been "the year of desktop Linux" every year since about 2006 for me. Who cares what everyone else is using? Just find a system you're happy with and stick with it.
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by andyking 15y ago
A familiar sight to those of us outside the US, of course.
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm a presenter on an FM radio station and I read HN daily. My work is in a medium many people here would consider to be irrelevant, or even dying. I'm interested in the world outside my current narrow field of work, I'm interested in how t
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by andyking 15y ago
They seem to have counted downloads, rather than site visitors. The decline in Sourceforge downloads by Linux users is likely to be down to the fact that most will simply grab the package from their distro's repository, rather than getting
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by andyking 15y ago
Rather like some of the early, low-cost home computers which came out of Cambridge in the 1980s; see ZX Spectrum. It almost feels like history coming back on itself.
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Think different about Jobs(james.cridland.net)
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by andyking 15y ago
The European Union has its shortcomings, but this is the one reason I don't want to see it fail, or Britain to leave. If I wanted to, tomorrow, I could take my British passport to Berlin, Copenhagen, Warsaw, anywhere on a continent of 500 m
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by andyking 15y ago
Entering "+pepsi" into my copy of Chrome, or into the Google Search page itself, just does a standard Google search for Pepsi. I'm in the UK. Is this US-only functionality?
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by andyking 15y ago
I've only ever found it in Booths, which is a fancy Whole Foods-style supermarket local to me in northern England. It's labelled with the Canadian flag and "100% pure Canadian maple syrup," but no grade. I love it on my pancakes, but now I'
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by andyking 15y ago
Brand extension has worked well in starting to transition the UK across to digital radio, too, as argued (by someone other than me) in this blog post: http://james.cridland.net/blog/its-all-in-the-brand/ Rather than filling the dial with
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by andyking 15y ago
I've always wanted a service like this. I needed a USB hub the other day, and I couldn't really wait days for it to show up from an internet store. I could search the website of a big (expensive) chain store, PC World, but we have lots and
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What might "Pure Music" on your radio mean for radio?(james.cridland.net)
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by andyking 15y ago
Maybe I'm not representative of my generation, but I feel privileged to have a job at all in this climate, to have a car, to be given the opportunity to represent my organisation, and so on. It's a far cry from the attitude of a lot of peop
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by andyking 15y ago
I've just got out of work, where a 50-year old was shouting, literally shouting , at me about spaces in the office parking lot, for twenty minutes, because I had the tenacity to suggest he parked two minutes walk away like me. (The landlor
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by andyking 15y ago
Isn't CentOS more designed for servers? I'm not sure. I've considered Debian Squeeze, but it's one of those things I've never got round to looking at in enough depth. Our older users are in their 60s and 70s. We're a non profit radio statio
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by andyking 15y ago
As long as you've read up on the subject beforehand, their forums are also really helpful. A few times, I've asked a question on the Ubuntu forums and been met with dead air, but while the people on the Arch site can be a little short with
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by andyking 15y ago
I use 10.04 LTS on work machines (by which I mean, machines at my workplace) simply because things stay the same on it and I'm not going to get calls saying "this huge colourful bar has appeared on the left of my screen, what on earth is it

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