| 2012/3/15-6/1 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:54340 Activity:nil | 3/15 Why does MS put double-quotes around the '8' in Windows Server 8, like
the following?
- Windows 8
- Windows Server "8"
\_ Because when they didn't do it, code didn't see the '\0'
and went over? Looks better than '8','\0' *shrug*
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| 2011/3/7-4/20 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:54056 Activity:nil | 3/7 I have a C question. I have the following source code in two identical
files t.c and t.cpp:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
const char * const * p1;
const char * * p2;
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| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Computer/SW/Database, Industry/Jobs] UID:53480 Activity:nil | 10/28 I live in the Los Angeles area and a lot of jobs near me hire
people who are 1) Front End developer 2) ASP .NET Developer and/or
3) MS SQL DBA. Are these things common in Silicon Valley? I don't
remember seeing so much M$ requirements when I lived in the
Bay Area several years ago.
\_ tons for it and enterprise apps. more rarely for cool startups
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| 2009/7/28-8/6 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:53213 Activity:nil | 7/27 I have an actual technical question here. My MySQL DBA tells me
that I can't expect a MySQL port to be able to run effectively
on more than a two CPU box, he says that the extra CPUs will
sit there unused. Is this true? I have a bunch of new quad core
servers that I would like to use as Database machines. -ausman
\_ It's not that simple. If you stress test your new fancy multi core
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| 2012/7/2-8/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54429 Activity:nil | 7/2 If I download a software that has GNU GPL and create a search
engine on top of it and the search engine profits (and I don't
release the source code nor do I modify or redistribute it), is
that an acceptable use of GNU GPL?
\_ Yes. Even the AGPL allows this if you don't modify the program.
\_ What if I'm a search engine that uses something that uses
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| 2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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| 2012/1/4-2/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54281 Activity:nil | 1/4 I want to test how my servers behave during a disk failure and
a RAID reconstruction so I want to simulate a hardware failure.
How can I do this in Linux without having to physically pull
a drive? These disks are behind a RAID card and run Linux. -ausman
\_ According to the Linux RAID wiki, you might be able to use mdadm
to do this with something like the following:
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