marcusr

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1. 31.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   My home computer is my work computer, and vice versa. I work from home several days per week, but I'm out consulting for the rest, so my laptop is usually always with me. I've thought about taking just an iPad but I like having t
2. 32.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   I tried Rackspace but there's no equivalent of AWS's elastic IP, so if you stop the instance you lose the IP address. It's ok if you go through load balancers, but no good for a single site with a single IP.
3. 33.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   Why do credit card forms ask you to enter the credit card number without spaces between the clusters of digits, when it's simple for the machine to parse with or without them?
4. 34.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   Sometimes words just seem to get overused by everyone at the same time. In the UK at the moment, every single cookery and bakery program insists their recipe will give you the PERFECT X, where X is cake, meal, dinner party. We can't
5. 35.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   Digital Ocean remains very cost effective even if you move up to a $40 a month plan, compared to the AWS m1.small plan - $40 per month vs $47, and you get an SSD based server and 4TB bandwidth included, plus 4GB vs 1.7GB RAM. The smaller D
6. 36.▲
   by marcusr 13y ago

   There's always a compelling case for that until your line breaks or your power fails. I've seen data centres fail too, but they do have some redundancy for their systems, more than you could reasonably spec for your own premises.