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HELP: can someone point me thru the maze of creating Debian/Ubuntu packages, and (ideally) a repository based on static files, not CGI? # amusing: Data Protection Commissioner won't name company which sold data illegally, but #TMobile apparently only firm not to issue a denial # Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering" isn't merely a great book, but

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@jimfinnis They should name a forest after him. in reply to jimfinnis # #space #astronomy have there been any launches today? 2235GMT Aylesbury 40 deg long cloud runs NS moves WE not wind, poss propellant dump? #

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@ketan Channel 4 and Sainsburys are giving away 3d glasses; are they broadly useful? in reply to ketan # @merlyn and yet we still prefer perl… 🙂 in reply to merlyn # There's a man on Radio4 arguing that the Copernican view of the Universe – with the Earth not at the centre – has

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@k4thybrown I suspect that would be @suw ? in reply to k4thybrown # just discovered 4-finger swipe on my macbook air brings up the app switcher #

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First test of new #brompton heavy duty suspension block, and retrofit rear folding clip. V.good, not going back. # @LudoMP ypserv in reply to LudoMP # @ids ditto on the ez wheels, oddly, but they are not a massive change. Will test clearance later in reply to ids # Advice Wanted: what are the top

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Many MPs hit reply all to the message from Conservative MP Mark Pritchard ensuring a torrent of unwanted e-mails in the inboxes of other MPs. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8357921.stm

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@bbctech I pay 40+ quid for a landline and use it only for DSL, so YES YES YES, just give me a DSL-and-no-calls option with cheap rental. in reply to bbctech # Shorthand going the way of the Ham Morse-code test: http://bit.ly/3xoCXU "take teh trubl 2 lrn shorthand, & it suggests U're srs" 😛 #

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Astonishing: "ln -s" on SnowLeopard honouring umask, sets symlink mode to rwx—— and cannot be traversed by non-root # Need to dig out old USB HD so I can install virgin SnowLeopard, try out Mine Devkit on vanilla OSX # ( HT @Ketan for the idea ) # Old washing machine been sent off to

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My argument against the semantic web has always been: create documents that a computer can read, and only a computer will want to read them This, via Adriana, is the same but worse: http://inventorspot.com/articles/social_awareness_replace_social_networking_34355 In my past blogs, I have written about the Internet of Things and Semantic Technology where Web 3.0 will eventually no

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British screwdriver and pitchfork murder rates set to rise: http://bit.ly/3JYAiX # Starting the day wearing my old DotComBuilder t-shirt – grubby work awaits 🙂 # Fantastic, Oxford Circus used to be a nightmare: RT @jimgris: Shibuya in London. I missed this last week. http://tr.im/EJ1q # Read http://bit.ly/2wrZzc and replace "botnet" with "compute cloud". Makes you

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Yay! We're about to find out who needs who! http://bit.ly/2ifxYF "Murdoch: We’ll probably remove our sites from Google’s index" via @glinner # Does anyone know a way to synthesise a "pinch" gesture on a mouse and keyboard under Snow Leopard? # How *not* to make ice-cream using liquid nitrogen: http://bit.ly/4faAiF # @k4thybrown yeah, i check

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Whole frame Originally uploaded by alecmuffett There aren’t many Xtracycles in the UK, so this should be a local novelty – in fact I’ve not seen any, yet. The frame is my 1993 Raleigh Amazon which cost £300 at the time and heaven knows what it is equivalent to now; however it has a wonderful

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