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	@andypiper @o2 I like how they avoid asking even the questions they asked themselves.	56 hours ago
	RT @VictorGooner: I have a dig bick. You that read wrong. You that read wrong too. and that.	60 hours ago
	Trisquel	77 hours ago
	RT @jonathancoulton: Any other musicians out there notice that ever since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has just been POURING in?	87 hours ago
	Blimey. Working with strings in PHP is basically impossible. I might just backtick some Perl here...	125 hours ago
	Having 'Authorize.Net provphpides this code "as is"' at the top of example code really doesn't inspire confidence...	128 hours ago
	I still don't understand fall-through as the default behaviour of a switch statement.	129 hours ago
	I'm still not really used to the idea of the price of a drink beginning with a '1'.	143 hours ago
	@KatieMillman I don't believe there's that many people eager to get to Norwich on a friday evening.	ages ago
	I thought I'd given up cleaning up after surprise flaws in proprietary software :/	ages ago
	@mgdm qmail	ages ago
	How the hell did something with such an obsession for tai64n date formats become the world's second most popular MTA?	ages ago
	RT @FakeWikipedia: Nick Drake fans have waited years for him to be the Featured Article, and boy, are they pissed off	ages ago
	@Orderwise Is there some server component of your product which runs on Linux?	ages ago
	Wikipedia missing the point? Fancy that!	ages ago
	@bokkiedog I might speak to him on the phone, or type an email to him, though.	ages ago
	I do dislike the US distaste for 'to' as a preposition. Are you writing "your congressman" or are you writing to him?	ages ago
	Nice to see that 'Open With' is still ridiculous in Precise Pangolin	ages ago
	Dammit. I think I just volunteered to write some PHP.	ages ago
	Glusterfs's comedy documentation is rapidly becoming unfunny.	ages ago
	@kirrus pft. </ kid type='little'>. And you're wrong :)	ages ago
	@kirrus yeah, just the chocolate	ages ago
	@elwoodicious @kirrus I think it only happens on reboot of the instance, it certainly only happens when I'm not looking...	ages ago
	@KatieMillman East of England is the Thames estuary. You're in The North.	ages ago
	@KatieMillman Oh, that's less exciting. In general, in the UK, 3G is not something to be relied upon for anything.	ages ago
	@KatieMillman I still don't know what a Mifi is. My theory was that it's a euphemism, but I don't know why you'd put 600kbps through that.	ages ago
	@KatieMillman The entire internet is now pimping your favourite PAYG telephone answering service at me :)	ages ago
	@KatieMillman Yeah, especially in ruralistan (or Norwich) :) Just make sure the net connection is reliable.	ages ago
	Well, that's the first time I've come away from working on the bike smelling of new grease. I suppose that's a good thing.	ages ago
	@KatieMillman Mifi? Is that a euphemism? Softphones (well, SIP) is generally a pain in the arse if there's firewalls to traverse.	ages ago
	@KatieMillman It is. It's waaaaay out of the M25.	ages ago
	I'm sure suexec causes more problems than it solves.	ages ago
	Currently taking issue with Only Connect's capitalisation.	ages ago
	I know I've seen ads for consultants who do HIPAA compliancy on Google Docs, but presumably it's quite expensive If Ubuntu One is the sort of thing your after were it in-house (though it really doesn't sound like it is), sparkleshare might be worth a look. It's sort-of a self-hosted $dropbox-clone I've not come across anything that does in-house google spreadsheet - it's a pretty hard thing to make. I'd imagine if anyone did, LO/OOo would get there first in FOSS.	ages ago
	Yeah, likewise.	ages ago
	You're a couple of decades late. These days Israel is ALWAYS the aggressor from what I hear.	ages ago
	Yeah. Techincally, the SysRq combinations are just ctrl+sysrq+[letter], but to get SysRq on PC keyboards you need to pres Alt+Print Screen.	ages ago
	Yeah, this is a common complaint. Personally, though, I've not yet found a keyboard where the K is more than a handspan from SysRq. In fact, on this (admittedly laptop) keyboard the ctrl+alt+k bit is quite doable on the left hand Hilariously, one of the alleged reasons for removing ctrl-alt-backspace was that users were somehow accidentally triggering it, at least there's no chance of that happening with SysRq.	ages ago
	Ubuntu didn't remove it, X11 did upstream. Which sort-of hints at one of its major problems - it was implemented in X11. When X11 is hung, you don't want to be reliant upon an X11 feature to restart it. I know, yes, it's still very useful because the subset of problems in which it does work are also among the most common But, in any case, you can use one the magic sysrq key combinations to restart X: ctrl+alt+sysrq+k Will kill anything on your current TTY which, generally, is X11. And when X...	ages ago
	alright, this is version 0.20120106	ages ago