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Tomorrow morning David Cameron will likely have two pre-written speeches on his desk.

One is the speech that he'll give if Scotland votes to stay as part of the union,

And the other is the speech that he'll give if Scotland succeeds.

I guess at this point it seems like things are pointing towards the former, and while if I wake up tomorrow to find the Scots have chosen to stay with us I'll be quite happy with that, We (the still United Kingdom) are going to have to put up with his smug arse-looking-face spouting a personal victory on national television for at least a week...

And while I would never wish for Scottish independence just to smite the man or the conservatives, I'd stil

Hi! I'm very new to Elementary OS, having only started playing around with it last night, and I'm wondering if anyone has had any success with it running on very legacy gear (details below)

The long version: I'm a self employed computer tech with two small business customers who are going through the motions of upgrading their dilapidated windows XP boxes, but are also trying to save some money on a few machines that are only used for very basic tasks.

One has a pair of AMD Athlon 1640B's with 768mb ram, and only requires basic web browsing, note taking, and product photo storage / camera support (Shotwell looks like it'll handle that perfectly.)

The other has an circa 2005 AMD Sempro

Hey r/computertechs/ first post here, 15 years IT / industry experience but very very newly self employed as a tech marketed towards home users.

The problem I have is trying to find a good hands-off / PC-illiterate backup solution for a certain customer / class of customer.

For most people wanting to backup their documents/photos/etc I'd simply set up a Google Drive/Dropbox/Microsoft Skydrive account of their choosing after explaining some pro's/cons/legal etc... and either explain how to use it, Or set up a Windows Task Scheduler job that executes a simple handwritten batch file (.BAT) that Copy /Y's everything from the customer's documents folder into the google drive/dropbox/sky

I was just thinking about both the difficulty's and ease of growing into photography in the digital age.

For myself my first 'real' camera was a Soviet era Zenit model E, in the early 90's, with a broken selenium meter, age 12, and I hated that thing, I still kinda do, no metering, no split prism, just a poorly ground glass focusing screen that merely shows greater to lesser extents of fussyness as a focusing aid.

Most of my time spent with that thing was asking my dad "what's this?" to which half the time the reply was "250 f16" He withstood about a whole two years of that before buying me a cheep Praktica with a spot meter and a split prism, that's perseverance!

I ended up making more