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I am testing Drupal 5 beta. A lot of useful modules have not been upgraded yet, but using this page I was able to upgrade manually a few of them, including Google Search, Quicktags, Pathfilter and a few others.

This is unbelivable! I have received 155 spam messages in one day! The world is going crazy.

Despite high prices and rising interest rates, recent figures from mortgage lenders show that the property market is acutally booming, writes BBC. I personally find it hard to explain, taking into account the fact, that the affordability levels are falling throughout the country, and especially in large towns, and the first time buyers often require parents' help to get on the so called property ladder.

An article in FT cites a recent report about tax levels around the world. Not surprisingly, United Kingdom has one of the highest levels in general and in property it has actually scored the first place.

For years I wanted to run the personal finance manager Gnucash on Windows - in my opinion, it is way better than Microsoft Money or Quicken. Unfortunately, it was only available under Unix. But it seems that now, with the release of version 2 of the application, it is possible to compile it on Win32.

It is quite strange - Google has robots.txt file, while both MSN and Yahoo! do not. It would be interesting to see, what other high profile sites have robots.txt and what do the

An article on BBC, published in 2000, but still relevant today, shows, how automobile fuel is taxed in the United Kingdom. The current duty figures, somewhere between 70% a

Sometimes Microsoft likes to hide installed applications from you in the "Add or Remove programs", especially when you play with their beta products. In that case, use a removal tool from, well, Microsoft.

If we believe the schedule, Fedora Core 6 should be with us this Tuesday. In the past the Fedora team honored their own deadlines, so hopefully we will enjoy a new rollout of the wonderful Linux distribution.

Following a tribunal ruling, the Financial Services Authorithy, UK's financial regulator, will have to pay legal costs of two men it tried to fine in the so called Cyprotex case, reports BBC.