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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-17
:: "if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax" – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers http://t.co/Zt6XuHL4 # :: "AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server" #justwhatineed #not http://t.co/Fe0S7flI # @toxicnaan Do you mean Alistair Darling's QE http://t.co/bzDhE6Eo – or his
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In protest of #SOPA and #PIPA, #Wikipedia will “go black” on January 18th, and…
…well, I made exactly the same posting about Reddit earlier in the week, and some friends’ reactions varied between meh and pointless to who? and not going to change anything. Somehow I think that a global blackout of Wikipedia: This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on
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Three builders’ tubs labelled BURN, TRASH, RECYCLE …
…plus 1 hour and I’ve collated the paperwork for my 2011 tax return. It’s a remarkably small heap, yet the bins are quite full. I think I need to work on my filing system.
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Reading: ‘Is it still possible to extend TCP?’ http://goo.gl/PQAar [PDF]
Link We’ve known for a while that the Internet has ossified as a result of the race to optimise existing applications or enhance security. NATs, performance-enhancing-proxies, firewalls and traffic normalizers are only a few of the middleboxes that are deployed in the network and look beyond the IP header to do their job. IP itself
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Will Someone Please Explain What’s Wrong With The Hammersmith Flyover? | Londonist
Fabulous, geeky read… update: and the problem may be salt and grit The next question is, how unsafe is the Hammersmith Flyover and will it ever re-open fully? Again, without evidence, definitive answers are impossible at this stage, but the notion that the structure could collapse any minute seems a little far-fetched. via Will Someone
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“AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server” #justwhatineed #not
Dear Amazon EC2 Customer, We are excited to announce that starting today, the AWS Free Usage Tier will now include Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server. Customers eligible for the AWS Free Usage tier can now use up to 750 hours per month of t1.micro instances running Microsoft Windows Server for free. With this
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“if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax” – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers
’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-16
:: Has some TV chef done a programme about Duck Eggs? http://t.co/H4dVbDuD #
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Has some TV chef done a programme about Duck Eggs?
My how to cook the perfect soft-boiled duck egg posting has had 150+ hits over the weekend…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-14
:: You and Your Phone are Huge Threats to the Net #security #privacy #tor #dns – HT @rdggeek @techhub @doctorow http://t.co/1xDkpbvH # As promised to a bunch of people at #rdggeek Why You and Your Phone are Huge Threats to the Net http://t.co/aD4ASiDt Props to @JimAnning! # @mikethebee Long story short: YouTube's new uploader is