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I heard about this on Radio 4 this afternoon. The current government is trying to get rid of that pesky, interfering need to put laws to the Houses to approve. They want the ability to arbitrarily create, amend or abolish laws. Oh, of course they won't...
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Digital radio. Embrace it. It's **digital**. It's better quality than analogue. Hurrah. Yay for digital radio. However, what they don't mention is that it can be worse quality too. Digital just means that what they transmit is what you receive (mo...
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It can happen to anyone, at any time. Even professionals. "I used to backup the data from that server every week, on another host. But last week, I needed some space for a specific application. And I temporarely deleted the backup. 2 days later, the ...
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=msg+headache So that's why I get a splitter after Pringles.
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I wanted a function to calculate the number of calendar months (not just 31 day months) between two dates in PostgreSQL, and it appeared that it doesn't like dividing an interval by another interval. So I have cranked open my copy of PostgreSQL, and wri...
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People still, in 2006, seem to think that Linux has a problem with audio, video, ripping, compressing, converting, etc. No, people, no. For videos/dvd playing/dvd encoding, I use MPlayer. It's a command line player (don't freak out just yet), and it pla...
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Here is an interesting philosophical look at the problems and intricacies surrounding digital copyright. For example, is it illegal to distribute 1 bit of a file that has been encoded as an MP3 from a copyrighted CD? Plainly not. Especially as the reco...
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Iran is making plans to sell its oil in Euros. Bearing in mind that Iraq started to sell its oil in Euros in 2000 before it was invaded liberated in 2003, after which the US administration reverted it to the US dollar again, and that the fact that oil i...
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If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right. Henry Ford.
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Just got back from spending Christmas in Villa Paranacito, Entre Rios. It was lovely - eating, drinking, sunbathing, and swimming in the river. I also watched a rather surreal Nativity play put on by the local children. It had a real baby in it, and all...