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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.
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.
Résumé/CV: Email for a copy Email: andy@andyking.eu
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.
They still sell it where I live.
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!
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.
People move around Europe a lot these days.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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 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!
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.
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.
Signals at such high frequencies simply wouldn't penetrate the extremely dense urban landscape of Singapore other than along a narrow northern coastal strip.
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.