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Sadly, disabling the spooler also disables print to PDF.

One of the biggest strengths of switch statement, falling through to the next case, unless there's a break, is missing. Of course, I can't think of a good example right now, but I'…

It generates a ~10km route in my Canadian city that starts off in meters, and switches to miles. I know we're somewhat used to flipping between metric and imperial, but it's not a …

Coffee? That's not so bad. I'd be worried about it raining vomit. Its already bad enough when fluids start flowing along the floor, hitting the coats and smaller bags stowed below …

One guy I knew pronounced it "squeal". I rather liked that.

There was a dispute involving LTO-8 that just recently was resolved, so LTO-8 tape should now be available in the US. I wasn't following it closely, so I can't give any real insigh…

Fortunately in Canada, we view busses as transport for the plebes. So when we finally brought LRT service up (a bit late) and the bus trip from home to work went from 45 minutes to…

I have the same case, similar PSU setup. My latest UPS makes more noise than the system it's protecting. Meanwhile, the low-end atom box attached to the TV has extra fans on it And…

I probably grew up north-ish of you, but ticks were always a concern if you were in the bush. -40 in the winter wasn't enough to kill them off. Just figured it was normal.

For power users, it's not just the extensions on Android (though it's a big part). It's the massively cross-platform for many years: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, BB10, MacOS, …

I assume they're talking about my 1.5 litre / 52 oz cups.

My favourite side-effect of fingerprinting protection is that local timezone is hidden, so that web consoles at work run in the one true timezone.

I think some of my pain came from attempts to unmount everything (particularly NFS) before letting long-running shutdowns (graphite/carbon) finished flushing, then never trying aga…

First thought - "that's just enabling bad budgeting" But then I realized -- waiting a week, or two, or a month might be considered a loan to the business. Should you get a 2% annua…

That sounds terrible. Weather keeps things exciting. On the other hand, all my concerns about self-serving cars in Canadian winters would go away.

I travel similarly equipped - with the idea that I can't lose (or lose control of) data I don't have with me. This addresses the threats represented by border control, intranationa…

Case insensitivity for files in a unix-ish environment seems like a great idea, until you're searching PATH for an executable called "head", and both HEAD and head exist. Do you go…