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Monthly Archives: July 2008

What’s that stand for?

Posted on 2008-07-31 by Martin McCallion
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I remember several years ago when the right answer to this was given wrong on University Challenge; but you’d think that, after all this time, The Guardian‘s Technology section would know what URL stands for.

Tip: it’s uniform, not universal.

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FF3 on Linux

Posted on 2008-07-30 by Martin McCallion
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Well, that business with installing Firefox 3 on Linux? Finally done on my Eee PC. Took ages, but the instructions worked more-or-less perfectly.

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