andyking
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
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. Leeds), UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but within Northern England or Wales only for family reasons - no London/SE please.
Technologies: 3+ years experience with Linux system administration, primarily for a company providing internet radio streaming and audio hosting services. Experience with Python programming, as well as sysadmin on CentOS and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. Installation and configuration from scratch of Apache, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Postfix and various other services Server monitoring and maintenance: knowledge and experience in the use of Munin, Monit, Nagios etc. Virtualisation experience - primarily OpenVZ, but with experience of implementing VMWare and KVM.
I am also looking for pointers on where to find entry-level technical writing work.
Résumé/CV: Email for a copy Email: [email protected]
Comment · 13 years ago
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 rendering engine - none of the Chromium/Blink based versions have made it across, even in beta.
Comment · 13 years ago
> the Morning Star is now defunct
They still sell it where I live.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 barriers notwithstanding, it makes the EU a lot more like the wide-open market of the USA.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 had this very useful feature. It had four indicators, if I remember correctly. "..." meant it was pending and you were having network/signal issues, "S" meant the Kik server had received it from your network, and the "D" and "R" were delivered and read.
I didn't know Google Hangouts had it. How does it display the read indicator? I find the interface a little... obtuse, to say the least!
Comment · 13 years ago
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 goes.
They're usually pretty disappointed when they see the sales office, the programming office, a tatty kitchen and a tiny, basic studio in a broom cupboard.
Surely Google is the same - it's acquired a legendary status, but it's just... well, an office, like you go to work in every day. I'm sure there are more interesting places to visit in California.
Comment · 13 years ago
Then again, it took them about three weeks to add the Isle of Jura back to their maps when it somehow got wiped:
Comment · 13 years ago
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 make some cutesy word.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
The address on [2] also shows Copenhagen (København).
People move around Europe a lot these days.
This update is mainly for install media, so people installing fresh don't have to download months of updates before configuring their system for the first time.