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Thanks for the comment, I'm a long time UNIX user (since the early 90s) and because I see the majority of web-applications running on *NIX systems, I, personally think a grounding …

My sister-in-law has asked for my help about a possible career change. Her current field is social science, and has a masters degree in politcal science, she's worked at NGOs and i…

> No, and the situation was and still is a lot more complicated than that. The question was "Did they [Irish Protestants] really consider themselves "Irish", though?" and the answe…

I don't have exact numbers to hand but I am sure the numbers of Protestant Irish emigrants was very high. Poverty throughout the counties was common and they wanted to find a new a…

Yes, of course they did. They were Irish, but the unionists agreed (along with Great Britain) that Ireland should be ruled by the King and be under British rule, and subsequently t…

> I think it would be hard to find an Irish Protestant at that time, no? Belfast (and the whole of Ulster) was full of them.

Just out of interest, I installed a couple of the European Ultima Online servers, they were Sun E450s running Solaris 2.5.1. They had a massive 10 Mb/s dedicated to them (with the …

Atmel have had FPGA devices for a very long time, they also have military specification FPGAs that are probably sat in lots of hardware that would need a constant flow of replaceme…

> You would need an HDCP license... The suggestion is for an illegal device, no need for licenses in that case ;) The easiest way would be to extract the pint glass graphic over th…

I use an ATIV Book 9 Plus ultrabook (13.3" LED QHD+ 3200 x 1800) as my main machine - the HiDPI screen is stunning and it is something I couldn't live without now. Up until a week …

"I ask honestly, why?" As you say yourself, it is part of your history, you've probably forgotten which concepts that K&R taught you and the OP is trying to learn C from scratch. T…

You should definitely have a copy of K&R on your desk. A book I read alongside K&R was "Illustrating C" by Donald G. Alcock, even though it is out of print and quite hard to find I…

I think you are quite unique in 'skipping text' written nearby text boxes where you are entering your credit-card number, expiry date and CVV2. I would recommend changing that beha…

Yes, but they clearly state - "To register your payment information, we will ask your bank for a 20,00€ debit preauthorization. This will appear on your bank statement and be autom…

My UX - click, ugh! ,back.

> My advice would be to start experimenting with it now. This will give you a headstart over the rest of the field as IPV6 becomes more popular. I remember specifically a coworker …

That isn't the point I'm making, it was a fictitious example based on many interactions with these types of guys. I'm illustrating how easily such a file is leaked because the peop…

> It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their han…

This statement from Gemalto seems quite naive considering the leaked documents state that the operations to obtain the private keys were successful. They talk about the deployment …

> I use XFCE with a custom HiDPI theme Your documentation is great, thank you, I'm trying your XFCE4 theme right now (I've been using Cinnamon until now). Could you possibly clarif…

I'm not running a 4K display on my laptop but a QHD+ HiDPI display (with a resolution of 3200x1800). I've settled on Debian Jessie(testing) with the Cinnamon desktop environment an…

That's a great suggestion. I've been through everything trying to get a decent HiDPI experience, I'm running Opera beta and it all just works perfectly. I'm running Debian Testing/…

Do you have children? I hear that TRT causes infertility so you need to abandon any hope of that while you are on it, is this the case?