Here is a picture of a standard UK PC keyboard. Can you spot the obvious mistake?
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It’s alwriiiight… Go and see it*.
*If you’re up for a bit of a mindless space romp, though not if you thought the first two films were irredeemable, because this is only as much better than II, as II was than I.
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I recently managed to get my server firewall to allow NFS requests from clients on my local network. It was a bit of a pain, so in case you’re suffering similar pain, I’ve written up my solution.
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“This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed,” said professor Adrian David Cheok, the leader of the team, who has been developing the technology for nearly two years.
“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
…and so on.
As an adjunct to today’s blockbusting “Hitchhiker’s” review, here’s a handy guide to our own wee corner of the universe—
—so that noone can accuse you of not taking an interest in local affairs.