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Author Archives: steve

Creative. Minimalist. Bachelor of Arts, turned sysadmin/coder. Periodically runs a business. Runs on ground coffee. Pretends to surf.

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Most of us developers will recognize the publisher, but this really takes the cake. Via Greg Young on fb.

Posted on February 28, 2016
by steve
    <img class="alignnone" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nqJBpt8f49Y/VtGzceAnE-I/AAAAAAAFIoc/fM4Y5HtyWI8/s0/FB_IMG_1456583355037.jpg" alt="" />

Most of us developers will recognize the publisher, but this really takes the cake. Via Greg Young on fb.

Posted on February 28, 2016
by steve
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#StolenDog

Posted on February 27, 2016
by steve
    <img class="alignnone" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-33L8UxIVqT8/Vq1356WqLgI/AAAAAAAAehk/2rnbdkbwAH4/s0/Screen%2Bshot%2B2016-01-31%2Bat%2B02.52.12.png" alt="" />

#StolenDog

Posted on February 27, 2016
by steve
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New hardware ordered for @warphost. Onwards and upwards!

Posted on February 26, 2016
by steve

Making the most of hardware at WarpHost (@warphost)

Just ordered a new PSU for re-purposed server (from front-line to a backup server), plus drive caddies for new front-line servers.ย  Great guns!

Opteron 2437 CPUs and full banks of memory (64GB)
Re-purposing a server into a back-up role.
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Please, Interweb, no more top-down coffee, notepad and pastry photos.

Posted on February 25, 2016
by steve

If I see just one more clichรฉd, top-down  image of a coffee cup, notepad, laptop and pastry, I’m gonna … I’m gonna … be miffed. And maybe write a letter.

Posted on February 25, 2016
by steve
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Gravity waves detected. This will change everything.

Posted on February 12, 2016
by steve

Scientists have successfully detected gravity waves, 100 years after Einstein predicted them.

“It would have been wonderful to watch Einstein’s face had we been able to tell him.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/11/gravitational_wave_detected

#science #gravity #future

Posted on February 12, 2016
by steve
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The end of Moore’s law

Posted on February 11, 2016
by steve

Moore’s law is at an end. ย It was good while it lasted ๐Ÿ™‚

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/moores-law-really-is-dead-this-time/

Posted on February 11, 2016
by steve
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The end of Moore’s law.

Posted on February 11, 2016
by steve
    The end of Moore's law.

It was good while it lasted ๐Ÿ™‚

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/moores-law-really-is-dead-this-time/

Posted on February 11, 2016
by steve
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In the new skylake mobile processors, has Intel removed virtualization capability?

Posted on February 10, 2016
by steve
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In the new skylake mobile processors, has Intel removed virtualization capability?

Posted on February 10, 2016
by steve
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Nom nom. #chocolate #hotelchocolat #spoilt #restraint #temptation

Posted on February 7, 2016
by steve

from Instagram: http://ift.tt/1S9LaEa
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How To: Fix USB Keyboards Missing the First Keypress in Linux

Posted on February 5, 2016
by steve

I use my laptop as a desktop with an external monitor, mouse & keyboard, and found that recently the keyboard would keep missing the first character of input โ€“ and it was driving me nuts.โ€ฆ

Source: How To: Fix USB Keyboards Missing the First Keypress in Linux

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