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A teacher who could be banned from the classroom after being caught writing an anonymous gossip blog about his school has accused his former headmaster of being a “cheat” and “dishonest”. Alexander Price penned the “The Provoked Pedagogue” blog about students, parents and staff at Denbigh High School in Denbigh, North Wales. In one article titled “The Problem With Prom”, Mr Price called the event “a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on loo...

A teacher who could be banned from the classroom after being caught writing an anonymous gossip blog about his school has accused his former headmaster of being a “cheat” and “dishonest”. Alexander Price penned the “The Provoked Pedagogue” blog about students, parents and staff at Denbigh High School in Denbigh, North Wales. In one article titled “The Problem With Prom”, Mr Price called the event “a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on loo...

Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images It’s been widely — indeed, endlessly — noted that Peloton has been a rare “winner” of the pandemic. With gyms reeling, many have opted for the high-tech home bike system, which involves a $1,900 piece of hardware and a $39 monthly subscription for custom exercise classes. The latest dramatic twist: Now the eight-year-old publicly traded company is reportedly “threatened” by its own struggles to meet the demand and fulfill orders for impatient customer...

Back in 2008, I discovered a bug in the BSD filesystem that has been there for more than 25 years, in all of the major BSDs, read the whole story here: The other day, I got an email from Edd, an OpenBSD user, claiming that Samba would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. This was Samba built from sources and not the one from ports. Since I use myself Samba a lot and for a quite large user base, I got interested in the issue and started investigating it. What I found out in the end...

Kevin L. Jones December 29, 2020Updated: January 4, 2021, 11:55 am Hari Kondabolu (left) and W. Kamau Bell Photo: Topic Studios/ Christina Domingues With Joe Biden the president-elect, it’s a new political era in America, and comedians W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu look forward to continuing to provide the commentary. Back in October, as the election season was at its hottest, Bell and Kondabolu reactivated their “Politically Re-Active” podcast after a three-year hiatus. W...

Back in 2008, I discovered a bug in the BSD filesystem that has been there for more than 25 years, in all of the major BSDs, read the whole story here: The other day, I got an email from Edd, an OpenBSD user, claiming that Samba would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. This was Samba built from sources and not the one from ports. Since I use myself Samba a lot and for a quite large user base, I got interested in the issue and started investigating it. What I found out in the end...

I am soon going to be 70 years old. Some of my senior friends say there is no Santa Claus. It seems to me that, still being a kid at heart and not real keen to "act my age," I think it is just fine to believe in all sorts of things. I dont have to be able to see something or have to touch it to think it could be real. At the Festival of Trees this year, I watched as people of all ages came in to that Christmas Wonderland. It wasnt just the children that had their eyes wide open and expressin...