Question: How long does it take to clean a train

Answer: Seven Minutes, if you have the Shinkansen cleaning team

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Within commuting distance for me, too. :)

Could this be a sign of an exodus away from Windows-based environments? The cost of having to upgrade many machines to Windows 7 or Windows 8, not to mention support and licensing, or the premium support cost required to continue supporting Windows XP would not go down well at any sensible company’s finance/accounting department.

Linux is free, open-sourced (see this link for a video explanation of what the term “open-sourced” means), and if a user doesn’t like how it works, they can add/remove or tweak it completely to their liking. They can even build their own kernel to handle bespoke hardware if they wished.

It should be noted that HP teamed up with Bell Labs in the past (who developed the original UNIX OS, on which Linux was inspired from), and built HP-UX (source here), so it isn’t like HP haven’t got some *nix-like environment already under the hood. In fact, WebOS  (now looked after by LG, but originally developed by Palm, which was then acquired by HP, then sold to LG) was Linux-based (source here).

HP, which was actually one of Microsoft's key partners in the last decade, is trying to move away from Windows in a move that would clearly turn the company into a direct competitor for the Redmond-based software giant.

HP Stabs Microsoft in the Back: Dumps Windows, Prepares Linux-Based Operating System.

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Well, that’s one way of using Gumtree….

Did you vote UKIP? Here’s the truth behind your MEPs. Uncomfortable reading for some. Delightful reading for others.

Google has been named ahead of Apple as the world's most valuable brand, according to a new survey.

Google overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable brand - Telegraph.

A Californian woman has filed a class action against Apple after switching to an Android phone and finding that text messages sent by friends with iPhones didn't reach her.

Apple sued over iMessages that fail to reach ex-iPhone user | Technology | theguardian.com.

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Shocking moment two women crash their car while filming themselves singing and dancing | Metro News.

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The Wind Rises is a long goodbye to be savoured | Metro News.

China is mourning the loss of two young firefighters who fell hand-in-hand to their deaths while battling a 13th floor apartment blaze in Shanghai.

A member of the public captured the tragic moment the pair were swept away from a balcony as they tried to extinguish the fire, the Daily Mail reports.

Liu Jie, 20, was pushed towards the balcony by a sudden explosion before his colleague Qian Lingyun, 23, tried to grab his hand and save his life.

However, the weight was too much for him to hold, and the pair were pulled from the apartment and fell to the pavement below.

Fire brigade spokesman Jian Ku said: ‘Firemen always watch each other’s backs, they look after each other, this tragic death shows the strength of that bond between colleagues.

‘Guarding one another in life, inseparable in death.’

Qian Lingyun and Liu Jie: China firefighters fall to their deaths in Shanghai | Metro News.

The Heartbleed bug is among the major security vulnerabilities we have seen in recent times. It's one of those cases where precaution is the order of the day. You could manually check sites or use Chromebleed, an extension that tells you if the site you're on was affected by the bug.

Chromebleed uses Filippo Valsorda’s little tool to test if the page was hit by Heartbleed and hasn’t issued a patch yet. You’re going to be safe on the bigger websites like Yahoo, but there’s a chance that some of the smaller sites haven’t yet patched their servers, so this little protection will help. If you do visit some such site, Chromebleed will throw a notification warning you, in which case it’s best to exit and notify the site’s developers to fix their issue.

Chromebleed Notifies You if a Visited Site was Hit by Heartbleed Bug.

This is one way to handle someone who has parked their car terribly | Metro News.

‘Please use your education appropriately. Proofreading takes five minutes and keeps you from looking stupid.’

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Oh, God no. Rebooting all the 80s classics? Sounds like Hollywood are running out of ideas, so are destroying the childhoods of people who were kids in the 80s.

There’s going to be a reboot of 1980s film favourite Police Academy. Yes, we are being serious | Metro News.

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Bouncers often get a lot of stick for not doing their jobs, or throwing drunken or rowdy customers out, but this proves that some people take their job very seriously, and put themselves in the line of fire.

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Source:Eric Wasson: Johnny Baby’s bar bouncer in St Paul, Minnesota, wrestles man armed with gun in dramatic CCTV video | Metro News.

There is hope yet for the next generation, if this is anything to go by.

Source: Myles Eckert decides to honour dead father by giving Frank Dailey $20 he found in Ohio | Metro News.

Some software bugs are infinitely subtle and complicated. Others are comprehensible almost at a glance to anyone who dabbled in BASIC as a kid. The iOS 7 bug is in the latter group.

Did you see it? This function is called when a iPhone connects to an encrypted site over SSL: it’s meant to verify that the encryption key is being vouched for — digitally signed — by the operator of the website.

But notice the two “goto fail” lines, one after the other. The first one belongs there. The second is a typo. That extra, duplicative line diverts the program’s execution, like a bypass stent, right past a critical authentication check. The part where the digital signature is actually checked is dead code, never reached. Behind iPhone’s Critical Security Bug, a Single Bad ‘Goto’ | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Why Apple’s Recent Security Flaw Is So Scary.

On Friday, Apple quietly released iOS 7.0.6, explaining in a brief release note that it fixed a bug in which "an attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS." That's the understated version. Another way to put it? Update your iPhoneright now.

Oh, and by the way,OS X has the same issues—except there's no fix out yet.

I could make all manner of snarky comments on this, but I won’t.