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Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan has hit out at one of modern life's most common habits calling it 'deranged'.

The show will be hosted at Wherstead's Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park by park owner Jimmy Doherty and Sivi Ramoutar.

The Rolling Stones legend, 82, rubbed shoulders with ex wife Bianca, 80, as well as former partner Jerry Hall , 69, who attended with their daughter Elizabeth, 41.

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Who, Me?  Each new Monday ushers in a week during which you might shine or flatline. The Register celebrates the times you end up doing the latter with a new instalment of Who, Me? It's the column in which you admit to making mistakes and execute cunning escapes.…

Carl was debugging a job management script. The first thing that caught his attention was that the script was called file.bat. They were running on Linux.

The second thing he noticed, was that the script was designed to manage up to 999 jobs, and needed to simply roll job count over once it exceeded 999- that is to say, job 1 comes after job 999.

Despite being called file.bat, it was in fact a Bash script, and thus did have access to the basic mathematical operations bash supports. So while this could have been done via some pretty basic arithmetic in Bash, doing entirely in Bash would have meant not using Awk. And if you know how to use Awk, why would you use anything but Awk?

njobno=`echo $jobno | awk '{if ($0<999) {print $0 + 1} else { print 1 }}'`

As Carl writes: "I don't mind the desire to limit job count by way of mod(1000) but what an implementation!"

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Authorities are investigating the bizarre discovery, found by mine workers in the Australian desert.

Tiptree Patisserie in Witham has been nominated for the National Bakery Awards for 2025, as they hope to mark 20 years with victory.

Like many members of the Royal Family, the Duchess of Edinburgh is a devoted fan of the accessories label Penelope Chilvers.

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Dr Pamela Mehta, a surgeon at the clinic Resilience Orthopaedics has revealed the types of exercise to relieve lower back pain.

He promised to bring a 'gay and lively' musical repertoire to a remote Scottish community when he made his home there in the 1960s.

If changes are proposed will they take effect immediately, or at the start of the next tax year, or do the possible changes need to be agreed through parliament?

Tristian James Frahm was found face down in the yard of his family's property near Murgon, about 660km north-west of Brisbane.

Britney Spears returned to Instagram on Sunday with one of her most bizarre posts to date following a series of bombshell claims from her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

The new skatepark will be delayed for two months due to 'wet weather'

"Windows Recovery Environment (RE), as the name suggests, is a built-in set of tools inside Windows that allow you to troubleshoot your computer, including booting into the BIOS, or starting the computer in safe mode," writes Tom's Hardware. "It's a crucial piece of software that has now, unfortunately, been rendered useless (for many) as part of the latest Windows update." A new bug discovered in Windows 11's October build, KB5066835, makes it so that your USB keyboard and mouse stop working entirely, so you cannot interact with the recovery UI at all. This problem has already been recognized and highlighted by Microsoft, who clarified that a fix is on its way to address this issue. Any plugged-in peripherals will continue to work just fine inside the actual operating system, but as soon as you go into Windows RE, your USB keyboard and mouse will become unresponsive. It's important to note that if your PC fails to start-up for any reason, it defaults to the recovery environment to, you know, recover and diagnose any issues that might've been preventing it from booting normally. Note that those hanging onto old PS/2-connector equipped keyboards and mice seem to be unaffected by this latest Windows software gaffe.

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Donald Trump forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to apologize to Qatari officials following a deadly attack on the country last month.

Myles Taylor, 23, responded by grabbing Kieran Brown and dragging him 30ft down Head Street before knocking him out in one punch.

Essex County Council has said it will look at reducing speed limits after a man and a woman were killed earlier this month

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway made a low-key appearance as she attended the Royal Randwick races for Everest Day on Saturday.