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alexmunroe

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    Comment #9076665

    14.04 is the LTS release, most corporate environments using Ubuntu that I've encountered jump between the LTS releases due to the five year support cycle. Being that a fairly large…

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    Comment #6289004

    It looks potentially a very good application, however, I'm unable to sign up as I use a personalised domain and get this message: Incorrect domain of Email-id! (only gmail, yahoo, …

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    Comment #6256475

    I believe there was an issue with guards needing to be able to use their mobile phones in an emergency. The majority of the Prison service use TETRA radios now which can be linked …

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    Comment #5528200

    I use it for an org with anywhere between 25 and 50 using it at any one time, assuming that you spend a bit of time organizing the folder structure at the beginning it's not a majo…

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    Comment #5155871

    The difference between the anti-piracy and illegal porn blocks are that the porn blocks are transparant whilst the anti-piracy blocks are a clear notification page. I'm not sure if…

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    Comment #5010515

    It's not usually this bad, we've had a lot more releases lining up with the US release dates. A number of friends have already resorted to piracy to view Wreck-It-Ralph and the stu…

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    Comment #4932867

    As unpopular a suggestion as this may be, Blackberry's are very secure particularly if you enable some of the more advanced security features such as secure memory and full device …

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    Comment #4769357

    Pretty impressive, I've given it a go with a few of the more technical terms that I come across at work and that other TTS' have difficulty handling and it dictated them flawlessly…

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    Comment #4449772

    As far as I can see he's done absolutely nothing illegal, immoral maybe depending on your view on the matter. It's rather like totally trusting client side javascript for authentic…

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    Comment #4416685

    I would imagine the number of people accessing the site from different timezones is likely to be the reason for it, an article can quite rapidly disappear from the front page befor…

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    Comment #4346417

    There is the option of GoCardless ( https://gocardless.com/ ) in the UK, however they use the Direct Debit system rather than card processing which does somewhat limit you geograph…

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    Comment #3500589

    It's quite possible that the image was also used for their facebook group image and simply not renamed when pulling together the landing page.

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    Comment #2891007

    One of my ethics lecturers at University was a Chinese national and she was clearly quite uncomfortable, nervous almost, of discussing human rights and oppression in China.

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    Comment #2878571

    I've been running an event in the UK for around 4 years now. We have around 1200 attendees and push around £55,000 (around $90,000) through each year. We had a few small issues the…