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Home Income Plan
by postasaurus
Mail online have reported that UK pensioners with an existing equity release scheme could save up to £300 million collectively by switching to an alternative plan at a lower interest rate. Equity release rates are fixed for life and have reduced over the past few years from around 8% to approximately 6%. The site claims that customers who have loans with the longest established lenders such as, Northern Rock and Mortgage Express could gain significantly by switching. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 pensioners could save up to £30,000 in interest payments over a 15 year period by switching their current equity release plan to one with a lower interest rate.
February 2009
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog » Your Ads, Richer
by kuroyagi
(via)
"A small group of advertisers tested it in the fourth quarter of 2008 and saw click-through rates rise by as much as 25 percent. They’ve also seen improved brand exposure and conversion rates."
ChucK => Strongly-timed, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language
by Emaux
& 3 others
ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and now, analysis - fully supported on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based, concurrent programming model that's highly precise and expressive (we call this strongly-timed), as well as dynamic control rates, and the ability to add and modify code on-the-fly. In addition, ChucK supports MIDI, OSC, HID device, and multi-channel audio. It's fun and easy to learn, and offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis/analysis programs, and real-time interactive control
Interest Rate Cuts All Round?
by polyxena
Thursday will have a similar deal - the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England announce their interest rates. The ECB is forecast - only forecast - to keep things the same, resisting any pressure to cut - which the larger members of the EU, France, Germany, would prefer - but others, Portugal, for example are dead against it.
January 2009
ODP - Open Directory Project
by Emaux
& 17 others
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
The Republic of the Web
The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet.
Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.
November 2008
Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows - ubuntu wiki
by tadeufilippini
Troubleshooting
Q. My download is very slow
A. The torrent hasn't got very many peers at the moment, so download rates are limited. If you can download with a standalone torrent client with properly forwarded ports that would probably increase the download speed - if you do please seed for as long as possible.
Q. I installed ubuntu, but how do I use it
A. Reboot the computer, and as it's starting up you'll be presented with a menu - select Ubuntu from that menu and press enter.
Q. The installer freezes at the splash screen.
A. Try another option in the 2nd boot menu (GRUB menu). To see the menu you may have to keep tapping the escape key after selecting "Ubuntu" from the first menu.
Q. When booting, I get this error: Error 17: File not found
A. Try defragmenting your hard drive
Q. The bootloader doesn't show up at all, and it boots straight into windows
A. Make sure C:\boot.ini has a "timeout" value higher than 0, and that this is the last line: C:\grldr="Ubuntu"
Q. I can't find the Boot.ini file
A. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties, then go to the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery, then Under System Startup, click Edit.
Q. I can't login to Ubuntu with the username I specified in the installer.
A. At the moment, the username is "ubuntu", and the password is "ubuntu", regardless of what you selected during installation
Q. I'm getting gdm and xserver errors
A. Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in, and run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, then reboot
Q. My network doesn't work
A. Open a terminal, and run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure dhcp3-client, then reboot
Q. How can I remove ubuntu when I no longer want it
A. Start the computer into Windows, and then go into "Add/Remove Programs" in "Control Panel". Select "Ubuntu Linux" and press remove. REMEMBER that this removes Ubuntu and any programs or documents you installed inside Ubuntu.
Q. Can I install if my computer is running Windows Vista?
A. Only if you're dual-booting with Windows XP; boot XP, install in XP, then select Windows XP in the Vista bootloader, then select Ubuntu. Users running just Vista, and not dual-booting with Windows XP will have to wait until GRLDR supports the Vista bootloader.
Q. My Windows partition is not the first partition on my first hard drive. Will this work?
A. Not for now. Support will hopefully soon be available.
FatFreeCart - Free shopping cart for Google Checkout and PayPal
by camel
& 1 other
(via)
FatFreeCart is a free shopping cart developed by the team behind E-junkie shopping cart. Get Google CheckoutIt works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything.
It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. Get PayPalIt supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.
If you are already using PayPal shopping cart, you will find the button code is similar. On top of being certified by PayPal and Google, it has been successfully tested on humans and they absolutely love it (which means higher conversion rates for you). FatFreeCart is also the only serious cart with a somewhat funny name.
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Ceriese: RDF translator for Eurostat data - DBTune blog
by karlcow
Well, now, after aggregating Semantic Web data about my music collection (using these tools), I can sort hip-hop artists by murder rates in their city :-)
