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So traditional Sheet Music and hence, notation is akin to C or Perl's verbose and/or messy syntax...the problem is, it's not just about the Notes with Music: there's a lot more in …

Question for the Room.

Re: '...Rather than do all this work with Puppet, Chef, or even Ansible, I can just declare what the systems ought to be and cluster them within code branches...' It sounds like th…

Interesting read. I've personally seen other 'tactics' used, most notably a former company's CFO told my Manager that I was being paid 20k more in Salary than I actually was. This …

I wear earplugs on a regular basis and they are great for drowning out excessive noise. I do remove them off and on, especially if I'm in a meeting with someone or if I have to hop…

Agree with Johnythree. I used to be an electronics technician over 12 years ago. What happened is that it became cheaper to replace a board than to pay a skilled technician to debu…

Another explanation could be attributed to the food supply: in America, the lower standard of living you have, the more likely you consume a nutritionally poor diet and consume wat…

This is great news for Administrators and IT Staff as in the Enterprise, Microsoft is still very relevant and this will only ease Management. I am of course referring to the still …

Linux is increasingly become more 'appliance-like' and I think the steps taken here are actually positive. Too many shops flat-out ignore the OS compoment of the stack. This will a…

I think the PostgreSQL Development Group does a great job overall. If they indeed have a reputation of being hard to work with, all the better in my opinion if it means guarding th…

Personally I would never consider moving to Houston: it's humid-hot, air quality is poor in certain areas (lots of chemical and oil refineries there coupled with humid heat), and c…

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Of course, this is only an opinion, and in general the Suse engineers have always done some great work.

Open Build Service has always been one of the more attractive features of OpenSuSe, along with Suse Studio. Unfortunately, after spending some time with the newest release of OpenS…

Diet also plays a part: hard-baked flour products such as crackers, cookies, and roasted nuts should not be consumed too-heavily if one suffers from certain back problems. Men who …

In the book "Systems Performance" by Brendan Gregg, there is a section on Kernels--in this case comparing Linux to Solaris--where the author shows a table of Kernel Versions with D…

I agree, I've also been at a company which merged with another company; and both were each using their own Jira and Confluence instances along with plugins. Horrible products.