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mats replied to a thread Amazon EC2 in Thin Client and Virtual Machines

dhicks - you want the AWS forums for that lot I suspect!

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22nd May 2013, 08:52 AM

mats replied to a thread Amazon EC2 in Thin Client and Virtual Machines

Yes but my free usage tier is about to expire. Great if you want a net accessible always on linux box without paying the electricity bill.

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21st May 2013, 05:27 PM

mats replied to a thread Get London Reading: Nook Simple Touch e-reader now £29 in General Chat

Mine arrived from B&N last weds (14th). I quite like it (lovely daylight readable screen) - still reading free ebooks despite its best efforts to...

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21st May 2013, 08:58 AM

mats replied to a thread Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with 1TB of free space in IT News

Do Yahoo / flickr own the rights to your 1Tb of photos though? It's a deal-breaker for me.

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20th May 2013, 04:41 PM

mats replied to a thread Using Linux as a way of viewing flash websites on an iPad in *nix

I'd investigate why puffinbrowser doesn't work within school and see if I could get a linux box to do something clever on the networking side. Much...

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17th May 2013, 09:52 AM

mats replied to a thread RM Unify in Wireless Networks

Interested, but not at that price!

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17th May 2013, 09:40 AM

mats replied to a thread Any Push bike geeks? in General Chat

Ah yes, hard / soft saddles. Soft may seem best, but the padding tends to bunch up away from where the pressure is (sit bones) is and press on the...

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16th May 2013, 03:21 PM

mats replied to a thread Any Push bike geeks? in General Chat

+1 for mudguards and a rack. Front suspension on a road bike tends to be extra weight to push around for no real benefit. For the same money, I'd...

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16th May 2013, 11:28 AM

mats replied to a thread Oil Price Fixing For The Past 10 Years? in General Chat

Doesn't work like that. "I've spend £hundreds of tax in my 60 years of cigarette addiction. I have more right to NHS treatment than your sick...

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16th May 2013, 11:24 AM

mats replied to a thread Cycling to Work in General Chat

Don't forget to practice unclipping. Do it loads so you can do it really quickly when you need to - it needs to be instinctive. You will forget at...

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16th May 2013, 09:30 AM

mats replied to a thread Oil Price Fixing For The Past 10 Years? in General Chat

The "fleeced motorist" is a myth. Lots of the external costs of motoring are bourne by the people outside the car. On hypotecated taxation -...

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15th May 2013, 10:08 AM

mats replied to a thread Oil Price Fixing For The Past 10 Years? in General Chat

After Libor, nothing surprises me. I see the BBC spin it as a motorist issue (call the RAC foundation! Get a picture of a petrol pump!), but in a...

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15th May 2013, 10:05 AM

mats replied to a thread Why are 80s cars less loved than those from other eras? in General Chat

That's a proper bit of weird French - before Citroen's boring phase. Nice.

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10th May 2013, 09:15 AM

mats replied to a thread Get London Reading: Nook Simple Touch e-reader now £29 in General Chat

Same here.

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9th May 2013, 01:33 PM

mats replied to a thread Get London Reading: Nook Simple Touch e-reader now £29 in General Chat

Had a play with Calibre last week - it's really nice. I suspect that using a dropbox directory for its data directory will make it work as a reader...

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9th May 2013, 11:47 AM

mats replied to a thread Get London Reading: Nook Simple Touch e-reader now £29 in General Chat

Has yours arrived yet? I'm still waiting and despite having received an email from B&N saying my order is scheduled to ship (on 1st May) there's...

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9th May 2013, 11:00 AM

mats replied to a thread Cleaning projectors in AV and Multimedia Related

School vacuum cleaner (Henry) for cleaning in-situ, Giottos Rocket for blowing out internals eg pc cases. Using lung power isn't all that good for...

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8th May 2013, 09:19 AM

mats replied to a thread Virtual Library in Virtual Learning Platforms

RM books has an online viewer and ipad & android reader apps. No kindle or nook which makes it a bit spendy if you want to use cheap offline readers.

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7th May 2013, 03:40 PM

mats replied to a thread Raspberry Pi connecting to Proxy server in CLEO

<checks notes> Have you created /etc/apt/apt.conf to contain the line Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy url:port"; (change as appropriate)?

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3rd May 2013, 03:21 PM

mats replied to a thread Ding Dong Hotmail is Dead in General Chat

Ha - I had a Hotmail address *until* it was owned by MS!

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2nd May 2013, 11:42 AM

mats started a thread Cheap ereaders - get 'rm while they're cheap in Netbooks, PDA and Phones

The Nook Simple Touch is going for £29 inc delivery at the moment. Cursory research looks like they're fairly hackable and may even function as one...

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24th April 2013, 03:39 PM

mats replied to a thread Sparklebox in General Chat

Couldn't say (in a public forum). DM / email.

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24th April 2013, 03:21 PM

mats replied to a thread Sparklebox in General Chat

I removed the sparklebox toolbar from a teacher laptop just last week. It was there because Twinkl have started charging £30pa apparently.

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