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46yrs old male hetero ubuntu user still very much a beginner digitally but fascinated and keen to learn more

Blogs. Space isn’t as empty as you’d think – especially in the first few thousand miles above the Earth.

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Here, the once pristine heavens, are littered with the detritus of half a century of space travel. Defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, nuclear reactors, bags of rubbish, items of space clothing, nuts, bolts and flecks of paint – it’s staggering what you can find up there (though rumours of orbiting space turtles might be exaggerated). In short, space on Earth’s doorstep is a junk yard – a junk yard that streaks through space faster than a speeding bullet. Nor is this a purely aesthetic problem. Traveling at more than 17,000mph, even the tiniest fragment of discarded junk is imbued with enough kinetic energy to tear through the walls of space stations – anything larger than a tennis ball could destroy it (as dramatically demonstrated in the movie ‘Gravity’).

Chainex. LLU Provider Overview - BT. BT Wholesale provide the vast majority of the nations ADSL connections. Achieving some 60,000 new connections per week at one point, BT Wholesale sell ADSL connections to ISPs such as Pipex, PlusNet, Eclipse, Demon, BT Yahoo/Broadband and many, many others. A range of different pricing models exist (Standard, usage and capacity based charging), and this is part of the reason why we see such a vast range of different and very competitive offers from ISPs nowadays.

Many of the smaller ISPs offering ADSL (such as ADSL24 and UKFSN) do not purchase from BT directly due to the high cost of the BT Central product. SOPA.

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Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration. 50 free web design tools that rock! A beginner's guide to BitTorrent. Sob, demonoid is no private tracker. half the torrents are externally tracked from the likes of tpb. even then it's ridiculously slow. and if you think oink is impossible to get into, good luck with the other great and more elusive and unknown private trackers out there.

A beginner's guide to BitTorrent

I'm tempted to recommend inviteshare, but most of the best aren't even on there..and the ones that are..fat chance of getting an invite (particularly when your email address is out there in the open to the site admins too...). MajorGeeks.com - Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities. Creating A Free Website. How to add Medibuntu repository in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise pangolin and 11.10. Updated 10/03/2012 Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues: patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creationlegal restrictions on freedom of speech or communicationrestrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptographylegal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissionsetc.

How to add Medibuntu repository in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise pangolin and 11.10

In this tutorial will show you how to add medibuntu repository to Ubuntu 9.10+ and above including the upcoming release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin 1- Install Medibuntu using command Line in Ubuntu 9.10 + ( Including Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin): Open terminal and enter the folowing command : Now you may also wish to add the following packages. Sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu Is done. Tweaking.com - Simple System Tweaker (Formerly Simple Performance Boost) 1.1.1 Download. Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free. BBC - Sign in with your BBC iD. The Arts – live, free and on demand. ConnectSafe. 50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts from Around the World. Sidewalk chalk guy. Street art. Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing.

This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011.

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing

General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them.