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There were plenty of low level libraries available then, less in the way of frameworks. It was an environment that he was used to coding in and cross-platform (in the PC world anyw…

Likely the emarker chip in the cable is reporting higher power capabilities than the cable can support long term. It'll work initially but then can't maintain that after resistance…

Only a single maintainer for years, and it's fallen now to best-effort.

A high voltage DC line is being built to Singapore now from a solar generator in Northern Australia, so it's definitely doable to send over that distance (around 3,000mi). I would …

You're right it is workload dependent. If you're low write but read heavy, you won't see huge differences in performance between RR and Serializable, so it can make sense to shift …

Potential timeouts for clients/workstations trying to reach microsoft.com. Which entry is picked for use is generally random depending on the client. Most systems will retry using …

Things is source code management these days even in mainframe but many shops still have you log into the same "box" to do your development. It can get pretty fun when trying to coo…

Do you know what they're using? Are they going to Microficus COBOL or doing something different?

Given the name, it'll be Qix, I had a copy as well! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix

It has its quirks on occasion and has changed a bit but has been around since 2007 and still going great.

It's a fair question and certainly is possible to have firewalls on a per-server basis. We do that for incoming traffic primarily. The catch is if that server itself gets compromis…

This is an advertisement. "How to avoid SIM swapping? Get your provider to use a different authentication method (like this one!)". In reality there is no great way to avoid it for…

Are they even still in business? That tweet is from 4 days ago.

There's knowing to ask the right question, and then there's asking the right question in the right way. That situation is tough though as you're working through both ego and office…

(The Thomas Covenant series was by Stephen Donaldson by the way) Card definitely has his own style with his work. Whether it's great or not is dependant on the reader - http://one-…

The windows ones apparently work with this version of Samba.

It's an intriguing idea though if nothing else. A question here (I don't know your background if it's biology mind you): what actually happens in the metamorphosis between caterpil…

No trouble and agreed - rumours flying around like that don't help the problem. If there was that level of security breech, outsiders would probably do more than lock everybody out…

In IT security here in Melbourne, first I've heard of it. Also why would network security specialists need to fly over 30 hours from Europe? We also have some pretty capable teams …

Are you sure? Sometimes wonder if talking to inanimate objects is just standard behaviour in Starbucks...

Seconding this. If you remove the '-3' at the end, it redirects back to the URL above. Cheeky, I like it.

With such a wide range of kernel versions, OS differences and various flavours of drivers from open, proprietary and closed sources, yep it's going to take some work.

The Alzheimer's link is a relatively new one (at least in the media) and looks to be a little bit of sensationalism: it sounds scary, makes for a good story and there's plenty of w…

Try adding '&viewall=true' without the quotes on the end of Wired URLs. It is annoying though, a little bit of jQuery would fix it in about 5 seconds flat.

Some banks are researching into extending that functionality too - creating effectively a disposable browser inside your browser to help mitigate against keylogging and screenshott…