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Sup everyone. Just checking in. Strange to think that I joined this forum 7 years ago, when I was 13. Some of you have been here even longer! Hope the old'uns and their kids are doing well. As for me, life's pretty good. I'm nearing the end of my 3rd year doing CS at manchester university...

Hey guys, it's been a long time since I've posted. I started university last September, and everythings been changing. I try and come here every now and again but I just can't feel compelled to answer banal questions like I used to do happily. Guess everything changes over time. Which...

I'm moving into halls tomorrow, it's 10pm and I haven't even started packing. I'm totally unsure where to start. And worst of all, I've left it too late to download Frasier. I've started to get into that show, and only one night left. :eek:

I've been using KDE 4.1 for a few days now and if you havent tried KDE since 4.0 then you should really give this a go. KDE 4.0 was awful in terms of usability. The technological foundations were there but many things were incomplete and should really have been in alpha rather than a full...

So yesterday I got my A Level results which I've been doing for the last 2 years. I studied Computing, Maths and Physics and got 3 As. That got me into my first choice university, University of Manchester where I'll be doing a masters in computer science. Nic is going to Durham to study...

I'm leaving for university in September, and since my current laptop is quite a few years old now and getting on a bit, I think I need a new PC or laptop. I know PCs are much less hassle in buying and maintaining, but I'm thinking a very portable laptop would be a good option. Battery life is...

Have to say I'm surprised with the amount of programs that run almost flawlessly under wine. Some features which you wouldn't think wine would be able to emulate work fine. Recently I installed express scribe in linux, since I have a part time job as a transcriber. It installed and had full...

I'm absolutely ecstatic. Euphoric. It's been 9 long years, but we've done it again. Over the course of the 120 minutes we were the better side, Chelsea came back strongly in the second half but we had the beating of them in the first half, and we were just about better in extra time. After...

Yes it's that time of year again. This year United have managed to progress past the semi finals after losing to AC Milan last season in an injury ravaged end. Paul Scholes scored a screaming goal from 25 yards at Old Trafford, and for all Barcelona's possession and pretty passing...

The new major version of KDE4 has been released today. It's been many years since the release of KDE3 and now we have a brand new KDE. KDE4 now uses the Qt4 library toolkit which is better in many ways to Qt3. Not all applications are finished, e.g. Amarok but they're on their way. The core...

Well no doubt you've heard all about it if you're a Brit. Or French or German for that matter. England slumped to a pathetic defeat last night against a good Croatia side, in which only a couple of players deserved to wear the shirt. One of them was Beckham, the other was probably Crouch...

Installed the new release of Ubuntu on my laptop today. I did the recommended upgrade by using the network update instead of a CD. I made a stupid mistake though, I left a DVD iso downloading at the same time, and when I came home today, and answered a configuration dialog during install I...

Saw this last week, and it's quite possible one the best Disney/Pixar films ever made. Plot was refreshingly original and animation was superb. It was different to the colourful animations used in other Pixar films, it was more realistic, hard to describe. Captured the Paris environment very...

BBC NEWS | Magazine | A breath of fresh air That report says that air quality in pubs since the smoking ban has increased tremendously. 585 micrograms / m^3 to 7 micrograms just shows the difference it makes. Would have been miffed if it turned out there wasn't much difference.

I've never been able to get user authentication working in Samba, the documentation and howtos make it seem so easy, yet every time I couldn't get authenticated with the system. In the end I just used the guest settings, but this meant I couldn't write to the shares. Finally today I found the...

Anandtech has a review of AMD's low TDP dual core processor, the Athlon 64 X2 BE-2350. Today AMD follows with yet another affordable CPU introduction; priced at $91 and $86 respectively, the Athlon X2 BE-2350 and 2300 aren't designed to take the performance crown from Intel, but rather they...

I've been using the latest beta of Ubuntu 7.04 which is set to be the next major release on thursday. I downloaded the default Ubuntu, as I wasn't sure of the quality of Kubuntu yet. I have to say, I'm very impressed. Hardware support is getting even better, and the new restricted drivers...

I thought I'd tell everyone about a traditional mongolian dish my family eat during celebrations or when we've just not ate them in a while. Booz The first is called booz, I didn't know how to spell it actually but this is the most widely used one. It's pronounced as "bauds" but the D is...

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has promised that an incoming Conservative government would create a level playing field for open source software in the UK, in a move which could save taxpayers more than £600 million a year. In a speech at the Royal Society of Arts, he also announced the...

The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source software, a change that would further distance the communist nation from U.S.-based Microsoft. Several Cuban government ministers backed the move at a technology conference held late last week. Communications...