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loupgarou21
17y ago
The picture that says "that's actually ubuntu" doesn't look anything like the screenshots from the actual distro's website.
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17y ago
hmm, at the college I went to, there were almost no female students in the automotive repair courses... Obviously it was all the star trek posters.
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17y ago
... shouldn't it be common practice to test your backup system to make sure that the restore procedure meets the requirements of the client (company, etc?) The IT company that I work for creates a backup system based on the requirements of
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17y ago
I had a subscription to a magazine that went out of business. They sold the rest of my subscription to Maxim, and sent me a letter letting me know that I could get a check for the remainder of my money instead of getting Maxim. There were
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17y ago
You could do something like zoneedit and just have some stern warning about dropping your accounts or charging you for back usage if you get caught circumventing the free limit by opening multiple accounts.
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17y ago
I spend a lot of time researching software and technologies for my clients. Many times there are two or more candidates that are very close in usability, features, cost, but if one of them has a posted phone number with easy to reach peopl
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17y ago
I work in IT, and the way I see it, there is a certain amount of time that I want to work on computers. When I'm working work on computers 40 or more hours a week for work, I'm unlikely to want to spend any of my free time working on compu
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17y ago
Not that this is really relevant to the article or invention itself, but there was one line that made me instantly dislike the product (knee jerk reaction, I know.) "But most important of all the blades give a buffeting when they come on. I
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17y ago
The sad (but very real) part of this is that there are a lot of people that wouldn't do anything constructive with those 13 hours anyway. Not to mention, there are a lot of times during the average person's day where they could cut out cou
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17y ago
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I'm guessing that once the novelty wears off, most people will return to their habit of taking the escalator. I realize that this probably isn't a permanent installation, but someone did this in a more
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17y ago
Depending on the situation, the mall owners may have no actual recourse anyway. I know in my state, a "no guns allowed" restriction isn't enforceable for an entire mall unless every business in the mall posts a "guns not allowed" sign. But
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17y ago
I dunno, I'd kinda like a pound of mercury. Apparently, my grandfather used to have like a mason jar about half full of mercury.
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17y ago
I work for an IT firm, and I end up giving tons of sites an email to use trials, but I dislike doing so just to see a demo. For me, I prefer demos to give me an option to contact the company at the end of the demo, but I realize that this