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    When is my self employed tax payment due?

    I am getting conflicting messages from within the HMRC website regarding the due date for my 2014/15 self employed tax return which I have recently submitted online. The Self Assessment homepage states: £xxx.xx due by 31 January 2016 | 21 days left Bill details -> £xxx.xx Balancing payment...
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    Moving email from a Windows Server to Linux

    I've looked into this again, it appears they are running a Windows SBS box in the office for everything, internal network drives, backups, email and their website. It doesn't really have the performance or reliability to be running the website hence the desire to move it. I've certainly learnt...
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    Moving email from a Windows Server to Linux

    I am working with a client who is looking to transition from their current Windows server to a standard Linux hosting package for Web/Email. Presume VPS level access on both. Website is no problem as the site is being re-written from scratch. Question is, how can the email be transitioned...
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    Young People & Giving to Charity

    I'm 31 and do this :D Whether it's trick or treat, carol singers or charities, I object to people who I don't know knocking on my door and expecting me to give them something. But then I don't even have any christmas decorations so I am a grumpy git :)
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    old people and technology - interesting and sad

    It's a lot of nonsense really. It was my nanna that got me into computing back in the days of Amigas then DOS. She showed me things like how to configure a CD-ROM drive in DOS using the autoexec.bat and config.sys files :D She was the only person in the family to have a computer and we all...
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    Freelance Web Developer recommendations?

    I can't remember the rules on recommendation threads so apologies if this is not allowed, i'll understand if it disappears :) Basically I have been working with a design agency for the past 18 months to do web development for them on a project by project basis. I have recently taken on a...
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    Am I Breaking Any Laws?

    I was thinking of setting up a takeaway delivery service in Ipswich, does anyone know where I might be able to get a decent customer database to post my flyers through???? :D No idea on the legal side, agree with others that I don't want my details posted on twitter for friends/neighbours to...
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    Registering Guarantors for Company Ltd by Guarantee

    Bill, thanks, yes they are Members and have the limited liability of £1. The thing i'm trying to determine is if we are required to register these people with Companies House? I can not find any details regarding this online, normally if there was a form it would be easy to find on google...
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    Registering Guarantors for Company Ltd by Guarantee

    I'm a director of a company limited by guarantee. I was under the impression we had to register all the guarantors with Companies House but I can't find the relevant information/forms? Nor can I see a way to do it in WebFiling. Can anyone clarify the requirements and where to find out more...
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    How to win a lottery

    read 4 pages before realising it's an old thread but here is my take. The original link appears to suggest the maths only works when a certain rollover is reached which boosts all the smaller prizes, the profit is made by winning a lot of smaller prizes not the jackpot. This could be...
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    Julian Assange ?

    Why do people think as soon as he is Sweden the US will get him, what power do they have in Sweden that they couldn't use here. I'm not really following it but it seems to have reached a stalemate to some extent from what I can gather, whilst in the embassy he can't really be touched but step...
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    Online bingo?

    I've previously wondered the same with online roulette
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    Orange - Lack of password security

    I was surprised earlier when I phoned Orange about my broadband account that the person on the end of the phone, who I assume is a fairly standard call centre employee, had full details of my account including my password. It's one of those where they ask for 2 specific characters to confirm...
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    Any Americans here, re shooting?

    Personal safety is having the ability to cut a seatbelt, clothing or items you may be caught up in. It's also the safety of others. I know there are plenty of people who wouldn't leave the house without a knife in their pocket and many of them have been in situations where it has been used...
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    Olympics - upsetting folk already

    There was seemingly a few references to Team GB football team as England in commentary too, according to twitter, I could never watch womens football :D