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I like the idea but most of the servers we manage have out going firewalls to block them from talking to the internet. We produce installed package lists during deployment (as much…

Standard photo size (6 inches by 4 inches) - or at least some form of note card/postcard/paper size.

Dang, wished known about that a week ago when I was kludging it for a couple of utilities (thinking "someone must have a library for this but I can't find it!"). Thank you.

Actually we don't have the full DNA sequence for any human. For example, if you look at the data from say the Genome Reference Consortium the first 10,000 bases on Chromosome are d…

True, but there's also the fact we don't know the whole human genome - only about 98% of it.

- Could you make a baby? No, there's more to us than just DNA. For example methylation, the addition of methyl chemical groups to some bases, which isn't tracked in "normal" DNA se…

It's a long time since I worked on mobile phones but in GSM the phone has to keep an internal of the tower it's connected to and the nearest neighbours in order to manage handover …

Yep, it's called cell id location. I worked in mobile phone location about 8 years ago and you could find a rough position (about 200m radius IIRC) and we used it as a first pass. …

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