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Am having moderate success installing #VirtualBox on a thumbdrive raw partition; updating Ubuntu & creating a swapfile. Will post later. # Amazing how pricey "back to school" can be 🙂 # Techhub http://t.co/HXCh0vm # Wanted: an XMPP client to unify Google talk and Facebook chat and other jabber svcs, for android. #

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@Liberationtech It's fake; too well edited, plus the "hacked" text is more yellow, moves faster, and the transition "flicker" is bogus. # @Liberationtech …and what they're "reporting" on is the controversy over whether it's real. # @Liberationtech Yes, appealing frauds that pander to peoples' prejudices frequently do. # How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

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@BBCr4today re: #CEOP how many convictions have they secured, please, and for what? # @JamesFirth Yes James. The LibDems should be in charge, then it'd all be sorted out properly, and everything would be tidy and fair. 😛 # @JamesFirth In fact it's amazing we've lasted this past 10,000 years. # Running Chrome on OSX?

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#!/usr/bin/perl -p # grocerise.pl v1.0 alec.muffett@gmail.com 2011/5/31 s!'(s)!\#$1!goi; s!’!!go; s!(\w[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz])(s)\b!$1’$2!goi; s!#(s)!$1!goi;

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Gandhi said it, but he was a focused person seeking a focused goal; yet today we have a QC calling Twitter-users “nerds”, and Adam Curtis doing what Adam Curtis often does, viz: stitch together some groovy music and graphics whilst oversimplifying some very complex issues to the point of error. I’m watching the first two

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I remember this moment http://www.xkcd.com/ – you actually get it twice # Has anyone got a good suggestion on what to do with other people's business cards? They're piling up, boring to file/search. Something arty? # The Internet is globalised speech. "Controlling" the Internet is globalised censorship, @martinkettle http://bit.ly/k2wsZA #Guardian #Oops # First, we must

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@peterhoneyman Ditto – i rooted my G1 and put Cyanogenmod on it, but it's starting to creak. So far the only S2 issue told to me is (…) # @peterhoneyman …halfday batt life for powerusers; I fixed that on G1 with fat battery, will see how S2 goes. ETA this week, let u know #

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@andypiper They have Dream and Desire, they need Death, Destruction and Delirium etc – http://bit.ly/iuSw1T HT @neilhimself # I've ordered a Samsung Galaxy II – now counting the hours until I can unhook the old G1 and use it as a wireless kitchen device. # @ramtopsgrum news, recipes, … # @nrosier When samsung get bored

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@k4thybrown Clashes with #rdggeek alas… # Chelsea Flower Show – Charley Boorman and Kate Adie #

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Pair of Apache helicopters just flew over the house, each with a small spherical pod hanging underneath. Going home after the Obama visit? # @webmink Argh. Now I'm wondering if we can walk into Boeing and demand the source code. # @lauraanngill Holding out is always good so long as the frustration won't kill you

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London CyberSecurity Summit – I am not going to this event, I'm not a believer http://www.cybersummit2011.com/ #baconsecurity # More #kulula – trademark the sky – http://bit.ly/jaXuEd (PDF) 🙂 # Leaked memo reveals CSC's plans for new NHS IT deal, will "roughly double" cost of NHS IT deployments http://ht.ly/52vpO # woohoo # @hvcco @TheRealSpaf "Strategic" –

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@ln4711 Quiesce the encrypted partition; consider it a stream of 8Mb blocks. Compute hashes for each. Compare hashes with those…(cont) # @ln4711 …you store, along with a series of 8Mb files named "1", "2" … ; update any changed "blocks". See similar http://bit.ly/mmj3ME # @ln4711 If that sounds too complex for you, you'll need a

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