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Open Source Developers' Club AGM

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The Simpsons come to life

The actors, apparently chosen because they can be easily identified with, finally settle on their couch to watch the cartoon version of the show.

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Soar with the Eagles

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Terminology

You're driving home. You're behind a motorcyclist doing the speed limit. You want to go a bit faster. The highway's a bit busy, so you can't over take. You start tailgating. A hidden on-ramp hides an ...

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First PHP course scheduled

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Have you heard of a Conservation License?

Although the land is not your by title, while you have a license for conservation, it it yours to do with as you please as long as you're acting within the guidelines of the license. Bulldozing the wh...

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Even real people say stupid things...

I would imagine having extra people pointing hoses at fires can only help, whereas sending untrained people to war is tantamount to murder. Now whether there are enough hoses to go around is another m...

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Definition of life-long friends...

On leaving her job at Channel 10, Jennifer Hansen was reported to have said that:

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Am I a Geek?

> A geek (pronounciation /gi:k/ ) is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the t...

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Being British

Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland.

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MySQL Backup Script

``` #!/bin/bash # MYSQL Backup Script # # Creates: # $BACKUP_PATH/ # '-- yyyy-mm-dd/ # |-- database_name.sql Full database backup # `-- database_name/ # |-- table1.sql Individ...

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OSGERMS renders a page

Okay, so it only says "Hello", but it's a start. The system is separated into a share and docroot directory, where the docroot contains a symlink to the index.php in the share directory, and deploymen...

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