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    How to brew your own beer - The All Grain method

    I've been brewing kits for almost a year now, and I've just started drinking my second all grain batch. Most definately a money saving hobby. I'm also enjoying mead-making which seems to be a bit less common so thought you might be interested! It's pretty simple. All you need for a basic one is...
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    The Heat is on!!!! 2013 chilli growing thread

    Mine were sown 10 days ago I had quite a few! (just 2 of each sown so far) VEG-FREE1 Free Offer Peppers Chilli NUMEX BIG JIM FREE PKT 10 seeds. 0.00 VEG1116 Vegetable Peppers Chilli Tropical Heat 10 chilli seeds. (Hab and scotch mix) 0.95 VEG113 Vegetable Peppers Chilli Tabasco 20...
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    Problem finding the 'Options' menu in Firefox

    for a sensible reason, as you wish to edit the preferences!
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    Teachers on strike

    Thanks! now lets watch as people completely ignore reason and continue to complain about holidays! (off to march in manchester now - see you later!) ps And what qualifications does it take to be a classroom assistant? I mean no offense to the thousands of excellent ones, but all you need is...
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    Teachers on strike

    I'm a teacher on strike today. The reason I voted yes is purely financial, and that's because I was promised a career path with suitable remuneration for my skills and qualifications. The teachers pensions were renegotiated with union cooperation only a couple of years ago to make them...
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    Switchable Graphics (laptop) with ubuntu 10.10

    can you just blacklist the ati modules and let it load the drivers for the internal card?
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    How long as Iplayer worked?

    both
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    How long as Iplayer worked?

    iplayer is flash/air based, and has worked for years.
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    Best OS for Netbook?

    my old eeepc 900 has been running ubuntu NBR for as long as it's existed and I've never had a problem. Fantastic combo.
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    Anyone transformed an origional xbox into a media centre?

    the xbox is slow and the software outdated. avoid. Mine can barely stream from my mythtv server
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    Ubuntu 10.04

    Email adobe and complain? Thats about all you can do.
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    Ubuntu 10.04

    It does sound a lot like you haven't been using the "software centre" - the central repositories for loads of programs which allow installation in a couple of clicks (it's in the applications menu - it automatically downloads the files and ties updates to your programs into the system update...
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    Idle thoughts on the LHC

    a hot plasma has fast moving particles. These collide (though nowhere near as fast as in the LHC) and fuse together releasing energy. This energy is collected - in many prototypes by heating water, making steam, and turning a turbine as in a more traditional power plant.
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    Idle thoughts on the LHC

    Solar nuclear fusion requires deuterium. The LHC doesn't make this, it's aim is not to collide the protons, but to collide the constituent quarks and observe the particles produced and the possible decay modes. They then look for statistically significant signals for decay modes only possible...
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    Question for maths/physics/mechanics students

    year 9 (13-14yo), i taught it yesterday.
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    I need to make a wiki

    I'm a teacher, and I've had 35 13 year olds using mediawiki without problems so it can't be that hard. They had about 10 mins of instructions while they logged on and then just jumped straight in. If they can then you can! :) (and setup was a simple upload and script jobby)
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    IIPA blacklisting countries who use open source.

    I fail to understand the logic when copyleft licenses are themselves a use of IP rights, and the existence of GPL software requires the same laws for controlling licensing and distribution, though applied in order to retain freedoms rather than to curtail them. If anything the present form of...
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    Debian

    http://www.debian.org/distrib/ take your pick
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    Who's running Ubuntu 9 and a legacy ATI graphics card\GPU?

    I've got an old 9600XT and the open source driver works perfectly, marginally slower but also less artifacts and no more weird corruption issues with the output.
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    Math boffs (or even novices..) inside please.

    My understanding was that if you average a set of numbers that all have the same error the error becomes the original error divided by the square root of the number of values you averaged. Though error analysis was back in my first year of uni in 2004 and after that my lab partner did it all!
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