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t90fan

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    Comment #46244550

    > associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating …

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    Comment #43552932

    Things like RDX backup cartridges have a physical write protect lever on them A few years ago (before affordable cloud backup offerings) this was fairly common for Small Businesses…

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    Comment #41550073

    we had a 20 TB ballpark (so I would guess many tens or even hundreds of billions of rows for sure) postgres database at a place I worked in ~2015, hosted on-prem, I don't recall it…

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    Comment #40581553

    ntl? me too!

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    Comment #38040956

    > wasn’t leaded gas banned in the 70s? Don't know about the US, but we had leaded petrol (gas) for cars much later here in the UK, ~2000 at least. I remember my mum's Austin Metro …

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    Comment #37790100

    The sacking of Rome by the Goths in 410

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    Comment #37263203

    thats great for tape only marginally slower than your average SSD

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    Comment #37250467

    similar to what we have had in the UK for a good while too, there is one with a sad limp looking cigarette and SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCE which I find very effective, more so than th…

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    Comment #37186466

    15-40 minutes depending on what tests are run/skipped (the integration tests are pretty numerous/slow)

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    Comment #36941374

    I can't remember exactly what the use case was but we used at my old work (Start up providing a Web CDN/WAF type service, think the kind of stuff CloudFlare does nowadays) in ~2013…

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    Comment #36833756

    The latter, UHT isn't popular at all here in the UK, unlike on the continent.

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    Comment #36797336

    Running regular incremental repairs is the norm, as nodes will from time to time have trouble talking to each other due to real world network reasons, or will go down, for things l…

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    Comment #36780909

    probably? Every tech company I've ever worked at, normal devs have had administrator access on their own Mac or Linux workstations, its only usually the sales/product folks who hav…

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    Comment #36087415

    QT is used a lot in Embedded systems. Years ago, I used to write software for medical devices which used QT, and those were supported in the wild for 10 years. I think its also pop…

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    Comment #26680509

    > Aside from the whole, well... lack of HTTPS support in any browser you could possibly use on that OS. Also in Win95. And Win98. But regardless... Use a proxy running on your LAN.…

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    Comment #26594249

    Containers are 2 (20ft) or 4 (40ft) tonnes (roughly) unloaded. And they can (if I remember right) contain 20 tonnes or so, of cargo. Our current chinooks can handle 10 tonnes, and …

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    Comment #26556234

    Lenovo make Android One phones. I got a new Moto G Pro from them this year. Very good phone for the price.

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    Comment #15409831

    thats more an artefact of the fact that most of our prisons were built in the 1800s. 2 in a cell is common. Until the 90s they never had indoor plumbing either, only buckets in the…

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    Comment #15183714

    Scanning can lead to arrest in some places. In the UK for example, the computer misuse act says that using any tool with the intent of accessing a system (without actually doing so…

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    Comment #15175043

    MS windows ships with a lot more drivers, and translations, or one.

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    Comment #15175017

    Well, on account there isnt really a working AD or SMB implementation, little printing support, and most NICs arent supported (also: no wireless at all), then I would say there is …

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    Comment #14498094

    Do you have a 3rd party bootloader installed? OR non-apple hardware? You get that error if you are not using the official apple firmware/UEFI bootloader - I saw it a few releases a…

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    Comment #14375610

    I am. Lots of us about, mostly work in Banking.

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    Comment #13579507

    +1 for spring boot. I dont use the rest repositories/hateos stuff much. But mvc/data/security, are solid. The netflix cloud stuff is really nice too, for circuit breaking/routing/d…