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I've got a few new packages from the UK FTP site today, but if you've been keeping up to date generally there shouldn't be many updates. This update is mainly for install media, so…

Currently looking for work after a few months off dealing with a family health issue - this is a long shot, but I thought I may as well give it a go! Location: West Yorkshire (nr. …

I assume at this point that Opera have decided to quietly drop ongoing support for Linux. There have been no updates to the Linux browser since the last one based on their old rend…

> the Morning Star is now defunct They still sell it where I live.

But in a small country like Denmark or Sweden, citizens there are also citizens of the EU and so can freely live and work in 27 countries with minimal bureaucratic hassle. Language…

Looking at the accuracy of the results it has for me (apparently I only spent three hours at work last week), I'm not worried.

When I was in a long-distance relationship a couple of years ago and couldn't SMS internationally without re-mortgaging, we made heavy use of an Android app called Kik which also h…

Isn't it just an office block? I'm in radio and people frequently want to visit radio stations - they have this image of a fun, glamorous, star-studded workplace where anything goe…

Then again, it took them about three weeks to add the Isle of Jura back to their maps when it somehow got wiped: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23331456

And a domain from Guernsey, who are unlikely to mess around with things. It always baffles me when I see startups using things like Libyan (.ly) and even Syrian (.sy) domains to ma…

This is fixed wireless internet access, rather than a local GSM network. It's very unlikely that Ofcom would licence a small local mobile network.

The address on [2] also shows Copenhagen (København). People move around Europe a lot these days.

I don't know if I'm making a big mistake here, but isn't local council tax used to maintain the roads? So if I was going to go down the path of "I pay my road tax, therefore I have…

Unlike a lot of music radio stations, which are just a man sitting in a room playing songs off a computer and chattering between them, Radio 4 has a lot of well-researched, pre-rec…

As a case in point, I opened up this BBC News page in an Elinks text-mode browser, so that I can read the content without the person at the other side of the office knowing I'm rea…

I recently bought a Huawei phone from a large mobile phone dealer. £70 contract-free, with a dual-core processor and Android 4.1. Is there something I should be concerned about wit…

On my desktop PC, I plug in the webcam when I need to use it for Skype, and unplug it when it's not in use. Nothing can be used remotely when it's not plugged in!

Those places usually sell you a cup of cheap supermarket instant coffee...