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by alricb 11y ago
FWIW, the case is a Corsair A540 with hard drive sleds in the two 5.25" bays: http://www.corsair.com/en-us/carbide-series-air-540-high-air... Makes sense to me, since you want the best airflow possible getting to
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The classic use is to talk about the Rump Parliament of 1648 in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_Parliament
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If it was good enough for the original (12 V!) Dodge car...
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You could also switch to base 12.
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New features also mean new security bugs. A complete freeze might not be optimal, but the "security cost" of new features could be given more weight when deciding to add something to browsers.
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The Dogs of War was made into a movie with Cristopher Walken and Tom Berenger, featuring the Manville gun as a kind of super grenade launcher.
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The ISO New England load zones are: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Northeastern Massachusetts and Boston (NEMA), Southeastern Massachusetts (SEMA) and Western/Central Massachusetts (WCMA).
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The thing with Iranians is that most of them are ethnically and linguistically Persian. They are mostly Muslim, but then they're Shia, not Sunni; it's the Sunni extremist that tend to go nuts for scarves and burqas.
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This is OpenSSL we're talking aboot here.
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There might also have been another reason for forgiveness: who had destroyed West German cities and killed thousands of civilians to no great military effect in the process (hint: not the Nazis).
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For programming languages, the HOPL papers, many of which can be found online for free. http://www.multicians.org/ is also a fascinating site on the OS that served as an inspiration/opposite for Unix. On that note, you
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These days, in Quebec, French (as a first language) is taught using a more-or-less linguistically correct approach, with articles called determiners, dividing sentences into groups and using transformations to understand interrogative sente
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The way the system was setup, the well that was contaminated was treated as a "deep well" that cannot get contaminated by surface water. Unfortunately, it wasn't the case at all. They might have figured it out in time if th
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by alricb 11y ago
And what can happen if the people responsible for a water supply screw up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs&
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by alricb 11y ago
libcrypto includes the OpenSSL ASN.1 code, which is worrying as all hell, e.g.: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=crypto/asn1/... Or any file in that directory.
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by alricb 11y ago
Looking at the references, I found RFC 7366, by Peter Gutmann (author of the dual-licensed cryptlib), which proposes an extension to make TLS encrypt-then-MAC instead of MAC-then-encrypt. Interestingly, that RFC cites three informational re
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Have there been documentation improvements? For instance http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/str/ is still quite obscure: it talks about the traits returned by certain methods, but there isn't an obviou
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by alricb 11y ago
Same reason they moved IO drivers to the kernel for NT 4.0, I'd guess. It was another time. Look at the WMF format, which is essentially just calls to GDI.
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Some software has remarkable staying power; look at the incomprehensible mess that is the TLS implementation from Mozilla, NSS, or at the insane amount of features required to implement the pdf spec.
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I didn't write it, Pierre Bourdieu did (in French, but my translation follows the sentence fairly closely), and he has stated that he writes like that so that he's hard to quote. In fact, to really understand the sentence, you&#x2
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ObPierreBourdieu: > This structure which is present in every artistic genre, and has been for a long time, today tends to work as a mental structure, organizing the production and perception of products: the opposition between art and mo
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http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-10-04.html... "Compilers are required to enforce the language rules in the same manner for a program consisting of several compilation units (and subunit
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The "outsourcing" of the boss fight is just that they asked the people who made their AI middleware to program the boss fights because they were rushing to release the game. (Source: I know someone who worked for the very small co
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Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(196...
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by alricb 11y ago
I doubt this case would have played out the same way in any other province. That's because you don't know much about Canadian law. Pawluck was found guilty of Criminal Harassment, which is the same offence ad mare usque ad mare
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Building a nation is hard, much like building a software stack; you have to stand on tons of infrastructure to be able to make it work, and the underpinnings often aren't pretty and/or efficient. Look at the mess that most TCP&#x2
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Battlecruisers were essentially a compromise design, trading either armour (in the British case) or guns and armour to a lesser degree (in the German case) for speed, at a time when a fast, fully armoured battleship carrying the largest gun
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The missing reset of the fifo is in one of the handlers defined at http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=hw/block/fdc.c;hb=2... fdctrl_stop_transfer() might be one of the incriminated functions.
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Shriram Krishnamurti to the rescue! Here's a memoized version in scheme: http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/08/dynamic-programming-vers...
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We still build steel mills near cheap sources of transportation, but it used to be that they tended to be near sources of coke and iron ore, such as in Le Creusot in Eastern France. Nowadays the big steel mills get their ore and coke throug

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