Only In Swansea.

Posted by: dhughese in bikers / 15wibble

I had an email from a very old mate in Swansea. I thought this bit was worth sharing with you… ===========… Yesterday I was at my local Sainsburys store buying a large bag of Winalot dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkou…

Revolting Shareholders

Posted by: jbdp in sasha_lubetkin / 11chatterbox - 17 days ago

I guess that since the following PDF is on the web I am not being too lacking in company spirit in posting this. (Perhaps if I sing the company song — I kid you not — a few times that will do as penance!) Anyway a colleague writes: http://www….

Posted by: pauldormer in opera / general

Damn, I’d been hoping this was an opera about the life of Simon Dee. Can’t say I enjoyed this much. It reminded me of occasions at university 40 years ago where friends tried to widen my music experience by playing things by the Moody Blues. Th…

Podcasts or Downloads

Posted in bbc.radio / 5general

The BBC (at least on the R4 website) seem to have ditched the term “podcast” in favour of “download” – although the iTunes Store still uses the former term. It makes no odds in the great scheme of things but what might be the reasoning behind t…

Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 6serious.chat

“Bolivia is to become the first country in the world to give nature comprehensi… legal rights in an effort to halt climate change and the exploitation of the natural world, and to improve quality of life for the Bolivian people. “Developed by …

Replacing our server

Posted in vmware / general

We are a small company of a dozen or so souls. We currently have a one Windows 2003 domain server machine, which acts as a (not much used) file server, and also runs VPOP3 to handle email. On a second machine, actually an old XP workstation, we…

Microsoft UEFI lock on Windows 8 PC’s

Posted in linux / 15general

Get your non-UEFI hardware while you can! http://www…. t-boot-cert… Fedora Linux capitulates to Microsoft boot certificate Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora http…

And we wonder why the country is going downhill

Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 6serious.chat

And we wonder why the country is going downhill http://www…. The terrifying thing is that 81% weren’t employable. Somehow I don’t think this is happening just in Scotland. Ken