Category: comptechsci
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Apologies for lots of duplicate posts in the last half hour - an automated service I was using went wild. Luckily I was awake early enough to notice. Service hopefully now disconnected from my accounts and duplicates removed. π
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Unfortunately I missed the live Microcamp last Friday because I was away for a long weekend π
Back home now so planning to catch up on the recordings today.
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My brother has made the news! ππ:
‘Once in a lifetime’ comet spotted from Derbyshire garage roof - BBC News
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Home screen status update!
I use the first two screens of my phone as easily accessible βHomeβ screens. The first is now starting to get overpopulated with note-making/taking apps π π€·ββοΈ
My second screen is more of a βconsumptionβ screen π€
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Experimenting with the Beluga.social app π³
I’m still playing around with Beluga and I quite like the way it works.
I’m sharing my Beluga posts on AWS S3 storage at thedimpause.cloud. This is a url forwarding address because to achieve anything in AWS requires me to do a vast amount of fumbling around until I find something that works. I’m not confident or familiar with using it and still haven’t found the energy to find a way to set up a custom domain yet π
I’ve got the JSON feed from my Beluga site importing into my Micro.blog hosted domain and the posts look OK. The main downside is that images do not get imported into the Micro.blog site but are still hosted externally on AWS. I don’t think there’s a way to change that at the moment.
I did notice today was that a link posted to Beluga ends up with a link preview card on the Beluga static site - example here. This card has an image from the linked page which then also gets imported into my Micro.blog site - as here. I do like this but the image that appears is not necessarily predictable - I could end up with some unexpected images on my blog and on the Micro.blog timeline π«’
One downside of the set up seems to be that photos uploaded via Beluga are quite compressed and do not seem to have the quality I get when uploading to Micro.blog via Mimi, MarsEdit or the web client. Fine for screenshots or casual snaps but not if I really care about the final appearance of the photo.
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Hello Beluga World
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Linkblog π: James Webb telescope makes ‘JuMBO’ discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
Some fascinating images and discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope
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thedimpau.se now furnished with Tinylytics webring and countries. Very nice @vincent π
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Linkblog π: The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
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Just had to post my weekly music stats manually. I fear that Tweekly.fm may have reached the end of the road with its Twitter API access π
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Trying the Vivaldi browser beta on iOS and so far it’s looking really good. I’ve been using Vivaldi as my default browser on macOS for a few months now so would definitely like to move to it on my mobile devices too.
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Have been finding Mastodon List Manager by @acbeers@hachyderm.io very useful in tidying up and organising my Mastodon timeline(s) π
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Afraid I wonβt be able to join Micro Camp live today - my sister-in-lawβs 50th birthday celebrations π
Look forward to catching up on recordings of the sessions later though.
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Hemispheric Views 082: A Hacker Has Entered the Chat! made my flight home pass far more pleasantly. Very interesting episode.
π @HemisphericViews
Could do with another episode for the passport queue though π‘
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Whoβs responsible for this !?
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𦀠Importing my Twitter archive into my Micro.blog
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π¦ π Time Machine
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π Tinkering with web design (again) πΈοΈ
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Inspired and informed by The Monitor by @maique π Iβve got @neatnikβs Web Monitor set up and working at nntk.net/status. No real reason, just seemed interesting π
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π» Trying out the Vivaldi browser
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Linkblog π: What is Mastodon, and will it replace Twitter? - New Statesman
Mastodon is not βTwitter but goodβ
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π½ First contact from status.lol
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Linkblog π: Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
via @cblgh@merveilles.town
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intricate β day 24 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge πΈ
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Midjourney AI-powered generative art project
My beta invite from Midjourney, the AI-powered generative art project, arrived today.
First attempt at a self-portrait - not flattering, but some would say fairly accurate π
prompt: seated grey haired man with a bushy grey beard drinks a glass of red wine and reads a green book
The area I live in - not badβ¦
prompt: Cynon valley in Wales
…and a more specific location even closer to home - I wish, but a bit overdramatic!
prompt: Werfa Abernant
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Update to my Micro.blog Navigation List plug-in
I have just updated my Micro.blog Navigation List plug-in to version 1.0.6
Prior to this version a link to the list page was automatically added to the site’s main navigation menu. This is no longer the case.
So, if you do want the link to appear in your site’s main menu when the plug-in has been installed see the instructions in the GitHub README.
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Linking Drummer to Micro.blog
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Dipping my toes back into Dave Winer’s world by trying out Drummer.
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I’m quite enjoying browsing through some of the Project Apollo Archive albums on Flickr. π
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Got to say @samgrover, Mimi is so good - I use it for most of my Micro.blog image uploads now, especially when I havenβt got a wi-fi connection. Even with a poor mobile data signal Mimi manages to upload where other apps fail!
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I’ve just successfully exported 4453 posts from my Micro.blog hosted blog and imported them into a Day One journal using the macOS Micro.blog app.
The whole process took about 3 hours, most of which was taken up by the downloading of all the blog images.
The Day One journal entries look very good - much better than a lot of those I have been crossposting from Micro.blog to Day One using IFTTT. They would often lose some formatting and only import one image from multi-image posts.
I paused the Day One sync service during the import process - now I’m just dreading turning it back on. I know it’s going to take a very long time to upload all these posts and images to the Day One servers and while the process is underway my (already poor) broadband service is going to slow to a crawl.
Now I just need a way to incrementally export new posts from my blog to Day One. I’d rather not go through the process of exporting and importing thousands of posts each time!
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
I’ve just read this article in by Oliver Burkeman The Guardian:
It is an edited extract from his book Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It, published on 26th August 2021.
I recognise and certainly experience a lot of the symptoms of being distracted that he is pointing out.
Social media is engineered to constantly adapt to our interests. No wonder the rest of reality seems unable to compete
We mustnβt let Silicon Valley off the hook, but we should be honest: much of the time, we give in to distraction willingly
When we succumb to distraction, weβre motivated by the desire to flee something painful about our experience of the present
What we think of as distractions arenβt the cause of our being distracted. Theyβre just the places we go to seek relief
The title of this post comes from Burnt Norton the first of T.S.Eliot’s Four Quartets:
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
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Gala - photography based social media
I’ve been trying out the photography based social media platform Gala. It was brought to my attention by @gr36 here on Micro.blog, in this conversation.
My username/profile there is (as expected!): thedimpause
I like the app they’re developing - although it does seem sluggish at times and I have experienced a few crashes whilst using it. Hopefully there’ll be a willingness and time allowed for improvement. It’s the style of app I wish Flickr had, a relatively simple photo browsing experience.
I don’t know yet whether the platform will succeed and prosper so I’m also publishing the photos I upload there to a Flickr album titled Gala. At the moment they’re mainly images from my archives which I’m revisiting with a little more post-processing.
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The official #Mastodon app for iOS is now on the App Store.
π Mastodon.social post
First impressions pretty good!
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Check out some of best photos from todayβs historic #NSFirstHumanFlight pic.twitter.com/aqQg0gzxi4
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Launch, flight and touchdown of Blue Origin First Human Flight. Very impressive. Looking forward to seeing images captured from within the capsule. π
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Watching the launch of Blue Origin First Human Flight π
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My Micro.blog anniversary
My first post to Micro.blog was made four years ago today - on Tuesday 2nd May 2017.
There are posts dated earlier than this on my Micro.blog hosted site because I imported my content from various web silos - including Twitter, Instagram and Wordpress.com - into the The Dim Pause.
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Homescreening because I listened to today’s episode of Hemispheric Views // @HemisphericViews.
Two screens, first is all widget, everything else in App Library.
And for reference it’s an iPhone 8 with 162 apps installed. π π€·
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: reflection β I still have my Power Macintosh G4 Mirrored Drive Door (2003). Hasn’t been powered up in a very long time though. ο£Ώ π·
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Been tinkering with @vincentβs Sublime Ads on my blog thedimpau.se. Works very nicely. π
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Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - β β Β½ π₯
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The scramble for Edtech β just another data mining operation? π β Excerpt: …students arenβt really the customers, they are the product.
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Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus β and you π β Excerpt: Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.
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Dark Sky Blog π β Dark Sky has joined Apple.
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Politics and social media
An interesting article on The Correspondent about social media and politicians - If a politician can say something in 280 characters, perhaps they shouldnβt say it at all.
I’m not sure that I agree with the conclusion that politicians should not engage with social media but there are certainly a number of valid examples of how it (or at least Twitter) can and has been misused.
The comments on the article are also interesting, comparing social media to newspaper headlines, soundbites and a TL;DR culture. I have more sympathy with some of those points of view.
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Good that I can still use my old iPod touch as a music player to some extent. Catalina syncs my music library with iOS 5.1.1 so long as tracks are ripped from CD, manually added audio files or purchased from iTunes. Tracks downloaded via Apple Music subscription do not sync.
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Appointment at the Cardiff Apple Store Genius Bar this morning, first for several years. Bit of a wait but the issue (faulty iPad) was dealt with quickly and efficiently.
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Very impressed with this update to NewsBlur on iOS
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Successfully installed Dialog app for Micro.blog onto a Kindle Fire tablet. Easier than I thought it would be! Used these instructions to get Google Play Store installed.
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π Donβt trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users
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π Google+ to shut down early after privacy flaw affects over 50m users
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I don’t think I want to see Mastodon content in the Micro.blog (app or web) Discover sections, but I’m enjoying seeing photos from Mastodon users I follow appear in the Sunlit app Timeline.
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Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. RM Technical Seminar
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Found a minor niggle with the new Mastodon features. Set up my ActivityPub/Mastodon-compatible username as @TheDimPause@thedimpau.se, but am finding in Mastodon this is appearing as @TheDImPause@thedimpau.se - any possible reason for this change of case @manton?
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Testing out Pi-Hole applied as DNS to a few of our mobile devices - seems to be working well
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What?? β Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
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The Facebook account breach extends way beyond the site itself. The compromise of access tokens means the FB SSO (Single Sign-On) mechanism was also vulnerable, meaning users' accounts on third-party sites implementing the FB SSO system may have also been compromised.
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Just upgraded Acorn image editor from version 4 to version 6
To celebrate the launch of macOS Mojave … we’re slashing the price of Acorn by 50% for a limited time.
It’s the image editor I use most on the Mac and IMHO at $14.99 is a bargain!
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Adding to the post-a-homescreen timeline. π±
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Good luck to NASA! β Can Mars rover beat the dust to trundle on again?
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Still intend to skip todayβs iteration of the iPhone X β after a decade or so of getting a new phone every two years (and handing my cast-offs to other family members) Iβm determined to make my current device last at least four years.
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Googleβs Art Selfie goes worldwide and thereβs no getting away from it β I am Man with a White Beard
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Microblogging and fragmentation by Riccardo Mori
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Robotic bees π on Mars! β Planet of the apis
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Experimenting with a few crossposting ideas between Microblog, 10Centuries and Pnut. Not entirely happy with the way in which links in posts pass through (or don’t!).
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Google and Facebook data β Despite myself, I’m quite impressed with the data that Google holds on me, as detailed in Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you. The timeline locations and ‘My Activity’ sections of the data seem particularly comprehensive! In comparison, for me, the download of my Facebook data seems relatively superficial.
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Testing a Python script to crosspost from 10Centuries.org to Micro.blog » originally posted at 10centuries.org
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Hey @micron Iβve just noticed that the rugby π category is missing from your Discover Search Categories section.
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Testing RSS to Pnut as a Service (RTPaaS) for cross-posting my Micro.blog feed to pnut.io.
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Just noticed that there were updates to Apple AirPort firmware released in December - AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.7.9 and 7.6.9. Seem to be addressing the KRACK vulnerability.
Currently working my way around updating 16 devices :(
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Accidental Tech Podcast 255: The Thermal Paste Lottery @atpfm filled my flight home from Rome almost perfectly.
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Bitcoin energy consumption β Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries Including Ireland & Most Countries In Africa β if correct, these figures are staggering.
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Posting from newly released MarsEdit 4. Great work @danielpunkass!
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π The system is failing β Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web. (ht @adamprocter)
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Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. RM Seminar time.
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Another Twitter irritation I haven’t come across before!
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Testing OwnYourSwarm by Aaron Parecki @aaronpk. Seems to work faultlessly and nice to see it feeds photographs through to Micro.blog.
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π WPA2 security vulnerability β ‘All wifi networks’ are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers
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Time for a quick feed test …
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Farewell to The Matrix β Physicists find weβre not living in a computer simulation
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Amazon still lags behind Apple, Google in Greenpeace renewable energy report β a few months old, but still interesting.
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π Bookmark β iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review: India β Austin Mann (ht @moridin)
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Revived my old Samsung Q1 after several years of it sitting in a drawer and have actually been using it for something useful over the last couple of days.
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Watched an Apple event live for the first time, to see the iPhone X. But possibly more impressed that the Apple Watch is now essentially (also) a phone.
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Superduper! by @dnanian saves the day again for me. My work 2011 iMac, rendered almost unusable by what looks like a failing GPU, now successfully mirrored to a healthier machine.
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Really like the Safari Extension in MarsEdit 4 Public Beta - got mine configured to create a Markdown link from a web page url and title and place it in a new Quick Post.
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Importing bookmarks from Chrome to Safari works a lot better now than I remember from the past.
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Veritas technical support @veritastechllc far outdid Microsoft technical support @MicrosoftHelps in both efficiency and politeness in dealing with similar problems I had today. Make of that what you will.
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Old servers out, data migrated to new servers, tidier server room! Next stage is upgrading to Server 2016 next week…
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Even on holiday, not thinking about work, the death of Flash makes me happy: Adobe is ending development and support for Flash in 2020
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Trying out Micro.blog cross posting to Facebook.
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Twitter archive for TheDimPause now imported into this micro.blog
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GNU social: https://t.co/HaTtMvgNxo Friendica: https://t.co/8zf8hzHxuJ
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Testing out a GNU social account.
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Sign The Ello Bill of Rights for Social Network Users from @elloword: https://t.co/nnDs5EjIxA
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Just spent nearly an hour reconnecting about 50 keyboards and mice back into computers in four IT rooms - what was going on yesterday?
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Five years' use of @LogMeIn now over - all removed from my computers and iOS devices. #logmeout #goodbyelogmeinΒ
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Yes, #Pressgram has arrived - my first quick photo test! #photography http://t.co/PNDp3buTtp
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Spotting computers in film and on TV! http://t.co/bo5WvIy7ZN
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3 cheers for #Asda - replaced failed #XBox360 8 weeks after purchase. Not so pleased with #M$, seeing 2 consoles fail in space of 2 months.
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sigh of relief - core system upgrades on 4 servers and 334 workstations just finished - can enjoy another four days off now :)
