Author: sroot
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What happens when you break down in France (10 things I learnt)
When you go on a family holiday and your car gets a longer holiday than you do, you just know something didn’t go to plan. This year our camping trip to france had a little ‘incident’ that left me pushing my French skills to the limit, learning new words concerning vehicle parts, pleading with insurance…
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The joy of being a forum/newsgroup moderator
I like to be helpful. It makes me feel good. When I post lots of technical questions to a community I’ll look to see if I can offer something in return for others. When the spree group asked for volunteer anti-spam moderators I was happy to volunteer. One side effect of that was being added…
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Peer to Peer downloading (Torrents) and network problems
Recently my parents had some friends visit. They had a laptop with them and asked to use the internet. We’ve not problem with that so let them connect…. except when they connected they were running a peer-to-peer file sharing program. If you’re here, you probably know what that is. A way of sharing large files…