Tag: Miscellaneous
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Netflix UK
After a long wait the UK finally has access to the Netflix film and television streaming service. We signed up on the day of release and after a few days of use I can say that over all I’m fairly pleased with the service. That’s not to say everything is perfect though, there’s a long way to…
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GCHQ Challenge
GCHQ (roughly the UK version of the CIA) are running a sort of recruitment program at the moment looking for geeks that are good code breakers. They have put up a site with a single page which presents a challenge to crack a code. Once you’ve cracked it you type the code into the text…
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Restarting a Download Manually in Firefox
What I’m abount to discuss is probably a fairly rare event but when you are stuck in a corner it’s good to have knowledge like this at your disposal. So, the background: I was downloading a very large video file in Chrome (about 13GB), it had got to about 12.5GB when I noticed that my…
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International Routing Department Scam
There is a scam doing the rounds that tries to infect your computer or get you to phone a premium rate number for computer support. It goes something like this: You get a phone call from an Indian sounding guy called Edward / Steve / John or something equally improbably. They claim that your computer…