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I've got a few new packages from the UK FTP site today, but if you've been keeping up to date generally there shouldn't be many updates.
This update is mainly for install media, so people installing fresh don't have to download months of updates before configuring their system for the first time.
Currently looking for work after a few months off dealing with a family health issue - this is a long shot, but I thought I may as well give it a go!
Location: West Yorkshire (nr. Leeds), UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but within Northern England or Wales only for family reasons - no London/SE please.
Technologies: 3+ years experience with Linux system administration, primarily for a company providing internet radio streaming and audio hosting services. Experience with Python programming, as well as sysadmin on CentOS and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. Installation and configuration from scratch of Apache, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Postfix and various other services Server monitoring and maintenance: knowledge and experience in the use of Munin, Monit, Nagios etc. Virtualisation experience - primarily OpenVZ, but with experience of implementing VMWare and KVM.
I am also looking for pointers on where to find entry-level technical writing work.
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I assume at this point that Opera have decided to quietly drop ongoing support for Linux.
There have been no updates to the Linux browser since the last one based on their old rendering engine - none of the Chromium/Blink based versions have made it across, even in beta.
the Morning Star is now defunct
They still sell it where I live.
But in a small country like Denmark or Sweden, citizens there are also citizens of the EU and so can freely live and work in 27 countries with minimal bureaucratic hassle. Language barriers notwithstanding, it makes the EU a lot more like the wide-open market of the USA.
Looking at the accuracy of the results it has for me (apparently I only spent three hours at work last week), I'm not worried.
When I was in a long-distance relationship a couple of years ago and couldn't SMS internationally without re-mortgaging, we made heavy use of an Android app called Kik which also had this very useful feature. It had four indicators, if I remember correctly. "..." meant it was pending and you were having network/signal issues, "S" meant the Kik server had received it from your network, and the "D" and "R" were delivered and read.
I didn't know Google Hangouts had it. How does it display the read indicator? I find the interface a little... obtuse, to say the least!
Isn't it just an office block?
I'm in radio and people frequently want to visit radio stations - they have this image of a fun, glamorous, star-studded workplace where anything goes.
They're usually pretty disappointed when they see the sales office, the programming office, a tatty kitchen and a tiny, basic studio in a broom cupboard.
Surely Google is the same - it's acquired a legendary status, but it's just... well, an office, like you go to work in every day. I'm sure there are more interesting places to visit in California.
Then again, it took them about three weeks to add the Isle of Jura back to their maps when it somehow got wiped:
And a domain from Guernsey, who are unlikely to mess around with things. It always baffles me when I see startups using things like Libyan (.ly) and even Syrian (.sy) domains to make some cutesy word.
This is fixed wireless internet access, rather than a local GSM network. It's very unlikely that Ofcom would licence a small local mobile network.
The address on [2] also shows Copenhagen (København).
People move around Europe a lot these days.
I don't know if I'm making a big mistake here, but isn't local council tax used to maintain the roads?
So if I was going to go down the path of "I pay my road tax, therefore I have more rights on the road than you," I could just as easily say "you're not from around here, get off MY roads!" Which would just be silly.
Unlike a lot of music radio stations, which are just a man sitting in a room playing songs off a computer and chattering between them, Radio 4 has a lot of well-researched, pre-recorded content that would be impossible to broadcast live.
As a case in point, I opened up this BBC News page in an Elinks text-mode browser, so that I can read the content without the person at the other side of the office knowing I'm reading BBC News instead of doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm far, far more efficient in my work when I have a bit of privacy, and I can relax and get on with things without thinking my screen is constantly being overlooked by colleagues. The constant feeling of being watched doesn't lead to more efficient work, just pointless stress.
A lot of people have 'strategically-placed' objects on their desks, between their monitors and other staff. Bags, boxes, and so on. No one wants to be in this type of office.
I recently bought a Huawei phone from a large mobile phone dealer. £70 contract-free, with a dual-core processor and Android 4.1.
Is there something I should be concerned about with this thing? It is remarkably cheap and seems good quality so far. I'll probably put Cyanogenmod on it if they come out with it, though.
On my desktop PC, I plug in the webcam when I need to use it for Skype, and unplug it when it's not in use. Nothing can be used remotely when it's not plugged in!
Those places usually sell you a cup of cheap supermarket instant coffee...
Thanks all for your well-reasoned praise of this ISP outfit. I knew they were good, but very expensive - when I last looked, my current usage would have cost me north of £50 a month. Home:1 appears to be £25 (with the option to double your cap for a heavy month for a tenner), which is comparable to my current monthly bill.
I currently pay about £20 a month to Eclipse, who are very good indeed - except for the fact that IPv6 is perpetually currently being tested and coming soon. I live in a rural area, no fibre, so I wanted the best normal ADSL connection I could get for a reasonable amount. I'm likely to be moving again in the next six months (job "changes" apparently looming) so I'll re-consider A&A when I do.
I miss South Yorkshire's Digital Region. Origin Broadband was uncapped, unthrottled, unfiltered 40Mbps fibre for £22.50 a month...
They are also hideously expensive. I looked at them when I moved house a while ago - but their pricing, for the transfer-capped service you get, is extortionate.
And if all ISPs are to be legally obliged to "provide" this filtering, A&A will not be an exception. So what are you paying the extra for - a few platitudes on a web page?
The difference being, people can and do go to Tristan da Cunha. I know someone who's been there. They have telephones, internet access, satellite TV and a radio station.
There's a big fence around Glastonbury - and wandering off into the Somerset countryside doesn't hold the same level of risk as walking out into the desert...
This isn't Google Drive for Linux, it's third-party sync software.
I agree with this, which is why the new Google Maps rubs me up the wrong way. I don't like how it changes the emphasis of different streets and roads depending on what you've searched for. A major road is a major road, and shouldn't turn into a minor road just because the restaurant you clicked on isn't on it.
We look at a map of our town or city, and the main roads in and out are the spines - everything is off one of them. If you turn those white, and remove the emphasis, the map becomes far less readable.
I work for a non-profit organisation and I'm considerably below the median income. There are jobs going, doing what I do for wages that are quite a bit higher - but they're all in London. An absolutely ideal job came up last week, but it's in Southwark. I just couldn't do it... so I stay here, where I'm reasonably settled and happy.
Even if my pay was doubled, I wouldn't be able to afford to live in or near London. However, I can afford a comfortable lifestyle in rural Yorkshire (house, car, holidays, internet access, good food, days out etc etc) on a modest pay packet. The rent for my 17th century cottage with garden in a Yorkshire village wouldn't get me a room in a shared house in an undesirable part of London.
I don't understand the pull of the capital. It's overcrowded, noisy and dirty, even in its 'desirable' areas. The oil sheikhs and Russian oligarchs can keep it. I'd much rather live up here even if I had enough money to live in London!
I wish RT would broadcast more stuff about Russia - it's an interesting and under-reported country.
Every time I turn it on, though, they seem to either be slating the United States or peddling conspiracy theories off the internet. It's strange. I'd watch it if they talked about their own country.
So, in order to get around this DNS-based filtering, all a teenager has to do is change the DNS servers on their computer or device to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4? This seems like a move designed to placate rather than provide any real protection - like all such schemes.
There's no alternative to supervising young people's internet use. Teenagers will look up porn - it's best to be adult and intelligent about it, and protect them from its worst effects, rather than trying to filter the content itself.
I don't think this is practical - even if the Malaysians allowed it, Johor Bahru is north of Singapore and the main population centre and business district of the island is along the south coast.
Signals at such high frequencies simply wouldn't penetrate the extremely dense urban landscape of Singapore other than along a narrow northern coastal strip.
I don't think the voting blocks are political - they're cultural.
A song that gets played on the radio in Britain is likely to get a lot of airplay in Ireland, and the Irish vote will go to the familiar British artist. If someone's on Europa Plus in Moscow every hour, chances are the stations in Ukraine and Latvia and so on will also play them.
It's not down to "we really hate Britain, so let's all gang up and not vote for them," it's down to "we're familiar with the people who are celebrities in our own region of Europe." The Eurosceptic British media would like us to think the rest of Europe dislikes us, hence the "political voting," "let's just leave Eurovision" narrative that comes out in the press every May.