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HELP: constructively critique my cycle's new bottom bracket: http://bit.ly/2Kg93m #xtracycle #mtb # @ChrisGerhard not sure, I told them to use a decent shimano but the receipt does not list it; will upload extra pics, looks cross-threaded? in reply to ChrisGerhard # @IgorMinar we tried, Igor, we tried… in reply to IgorMinar # @ChrisGerhard agreed, just

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delays on swt on approach to woking from waterloo, a road vehicle hit a rail bridge. #southwesttrains # @katzmandu http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/72157622544614157/ <- present i took for you in reply to katzmandu # @the_eggwhite @alimbada @simonw @jonathantweed thanks++ for coming along, it's good to know new people are interested #themineproject # nuisances du jour: 1) my Twitter

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@darrenmoffat R you sure you can export VMDK from #Virtualbox? Can only find OVL, and http://bit.ly/1LSo7s suggests it only a half-solution in reply to darrenmoffat # #virtualbox team : please add a "never show this window again" checkbox on your Registration dialogue. It's annoying. # American friends: be aware that the UK and rest of

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@timminchin loving the gig so far! Btw, as one ginger to another the only one you missed is 'duracell' but I remember the rest. Best! #

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Help: How much of #VMware can I use for free? I use #Virtualbox but need to build, test and deploy a Ubuntu VDI under vmware on OSX. # Rgds prev tweet: I believe I can use EasyVMX.com to create a VMDK and #VMware Player under Linux to populate it. Zero cost. Will this work? #

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@LFoaB ping a message to @LaureenH, she's on a boat in Oakland, home schools, recently got a Mac. Also I'm happy to field mac tech q's in reply to LFoaB # @LFoaB ps: Frankly there's little wrong with the white MacBook at $999 although extra memory ($100) is a boon in reply to LFoaB #

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@LFoaB ping a message to @LaureenH, she's on a boat in Oakland, home schools, recently got a Mac. Also I'm happy to field mac tech q's in reply to LFoaB # @LFoaB ps: Frankly there's little wrong with the white MacBook at $999 although extra memory ($100) is a boon in reply to LFoaB #

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+1 RT @glynmoody GCHQ outsources net snooping to EDS – http://bit.ly/3x9cCL thank goodness… it'll be late and probably never work properly in reply to glynmoody # Anyone reading this familiar with creating #Ubuntu packages? Don't want to run a repository, just create an installable + dependencies… # @timburks http://themineproject.org – because data has reduced requirement

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funny feeling when the house you grew up in gets sold. # Michael Jennings geeks-out on Windows version numbers: http://is.gd/4sZjE – I think SunOS can match/exceed MS on this one… # http://is.gd/4tPjC "SunOS 4.1.3_U1 is still God's Own Operating System in my mind: anything else is either new-fangled or obsolescent." # http://is.gd/4tGj8 Excellent Geek Reading:

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Inspired by Michael Jennings’ History of Windows Version Numbers. As a Sun systems admin you had to know all of the below, and be able to translate in both directions, just to do your job. The changeover from SunOS to Solaris numbering was not a good time… Sources Wikipedia [1] [2] and first hand experience.

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users like @LethaJefferso are amongst the reasons I would almost support banning of url-shorteners on twitter # do you remember the days when tinyurls were only 4 characters long? (now == 7) #

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@kurtsauer watching it now, looks great! in reply to kurtsauer # loading 2000 vurls into pymine so i can test pagination and stress it a bit in the morning. #themineproject #

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