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by alexkus 14y ago
I remember being impressed by a friend at University who would do:- copy CON: reboot.com and then enter 8 or 9 bytes (some via ALT+keypad) all from memory. (There are ways to do it in just 2 bytes I believe, this isn't about reboot.com golf
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by alexkus 14y ago
I used to work as a pot-washer in the kitchen of a restaurant and therefore I was the person who used to go to the petrol station next door to buy things for the other staff (waiters/waitresses, chefs, etc) as they weren't able to get away
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by alexkus 14y ago
It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you mean it is. If you don’t, it’s its. Then too, it’s hers. It isn’t her’s. It isn’t our’s either. It’s ours, and likewise yours and theirs. —Oxford University Press, Edpress News
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Not once have I seen a network failure simulated. Reminds me of the webserver UPS setup at a previous company. The router (for the incoming T1) and the webserver were plugged in to the UPS. UPS connected (via serial port) to webserver
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by alexkus 14y ago
Server has been bombed it seems. All game servers dead. No idea whether it was HN related or a separate issue.
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by alexkus 14y ago
One side effect of "sudo bash" is that when you exit that shell your local user's .bash_history file gets overwritten by one owned by root (and un{read/write}able by the local user), and so your local user loses the bash history functionali
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by alexkus 14y ago
Which is why you dress for being warm and wet. I'm commuting by bike every day in London and it's usually been between -2 and 2 deg C in the morning/evening the last few months (with occasional milder spells). I use arm roubaix backed lycra
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by alexkus 14y ago
Simple. Have the drone hold on to them for long enough that they explode before the others have a chance to return it.
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by alexkus 14y ago
No, salaried. [EDIT] I didn't quite walk out straight after fixing the problem. I stuck around to help out with any other queries they had with our software but they ran out of questions by lunch time. [EDIT2] Customer wasn't being billed a
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by alexkus 14y ago
I flew over to see a customer (only a 2h domestic flight) to solve an 'unsolvable' problem. They'd been going through it with support for weeks with no luck. I got to the customer, took over his chair, edited a single file, added a missing
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by alexkus 14y ago
Sorry, yes, I was thinking about support in relation to the pod itself (the subject of this article) and not BackBlaze in general.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Eh? What makes you think it doesn't already?
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by alexkus 14y ago
> It would be hell to get the data off before imaging the drives. What do you transfer it to? I'd guess you'd transfer it to the same thing that was accepting the data when it was coming over the 1Gbps link?
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by alexkus 14y ago
It's quite common if you ask for a quote for hosting in the UK. If you ask for a single server you generally get a monthly allowance. For example, one of our servers sits gets 5TB a month on a 100Mbit port. Saturating that 100Mbit port woul
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by alexkus 14y ago
> You ingest caffeine only in the morning. I have slept so much better since switching to decaf[1]. I do miss a good coffee, but then some cafes do a good decaf and I'm quite happy drinking instant (decaf) coffee; it's also saving me a
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by alexkus 14y ago
No chance of co-sleeping. Daughter likes to sleep diagonally when in our bed and spends most of the night kicking me and pawing at my wife's face/hair. Joy. Luckily she has pretty much slept through the night (7pm to 7am) from 3 months old.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Yep, we hear our daughter shuffling around in bed, sighing and generally being restless and then at bang on 7am there's the sound of her getting out of bed and running in to our room shouting "Mummy, Daddy, the sun came up!"
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by alexkus 14y ago
You don't need any special tricks in the backend. The only limits on the backend are the number of file descriptors. You only need special tricks when you want to simulate a large number of client connections from a single machine (or bunch
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by alexkus 14y ago
Nothing incites vitriol from opposing camps than a good 'Cyclists vs Cars' debate. "The only winning move is not to play."
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by alexkus 14y ago
It all depends on the context. Many small websites were threatened with legal action if they displayed more than a couple of weeks' worth of football (soccer) fixtures on their site. The claim was that the data was part of a copyrighted dat
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by alexkus 14y ago
Bilateral keratoconus. It's been stable for the last 10 years but it rules out any form of LASIK as my corneas are already thin enough thankyouverymuch. I've worn glasses since I was 11 so I don't mind. I'm 20/60 in one eye and 20/200+ in t
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by alexkus 14y ago
Indeed. Enjoy the DMCA takedown notices.
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by alexkus 14y ago
The trick is to do both. Create one site that's honest and pure (like you have), and a completely separate site where you sell higher placements to companies. You then don't care about what people think about the profit making page.
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by alexkus 14y ago
It's just one possible result of applying "two whys" and then not stating the answer to the first why.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Karma whoring.
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by alexkus 14y ago
And such encryption relies on the primes that are used remaining secret. Using any of the 'well known' primes would be a bad idea as it is easy to go through the 'well known' primes and test to see if they were used as a basis for the encry
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by alexkus 14y ago
> I personally find a 50/50 balance between working on- and offsite. With 2 dogs and 2 kids and stay-at-home wife - working from home for me is a challenge. But working on-site 15 minutes away from home is a perfect arrangement. That's
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by alexkus 14y ago
I work with one (out of 200 odd) person who has bothered with becoming MBCS, so they do exist! I (Comp Sci B.Sc.) never bothered for many of the above reasons, and I can find better things to spend £100 a year on, but I have bothered with I
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Homing pigeon 'Bermuda Triangle' explained(bbc.co.uk)
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by alexkus 14y ago
The early modems I had access to were 300/300 or 1200/75. Ah! V.23. The 75 baud backward channel of 1200/75 was good enough to keep up with typing so it was my preferred speed when accessing various things remotely where I never needed to s

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