Don't forget to check the Google page.

The difference between a practical joke and simply a fib is that a good joke should, if the victim took 5 seconds to...

DBA sleep paid off already. I was able to appear to be keeping up with the latest technology.

problems with the the 'hydrogen' concept

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-03-12.html

bnordberg (3/31/2008)

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Wow how do you drive so many miles in a yr! I usually do a combo bike/bus to work - 12 miles total. My wife and I have one...

To be devil's advocate on the battery life issue.

According to the article, the reason the batteries are supposedly much longer lived in hybrids than in computers etc is that the...

The first thing that hit me about the Loremo, is how would you get out after even a relatively modest front end collision? This was further emphasised by the pop...

The danger of lost biometric data is far more, though at the moment it is of minimal use. But things like SS, bank account info, etc can be changed if...

It would be much better if the default [enter] were 'restart later'. Then an accidental activation would merely be slightly inconvenient.

Jeff Moden (3/10/2008)

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So far as the cost of a DBA goes, I think the reason why Oracle DBA's get paid more is because of perception. I think many managers...

I knew a couple who, after retirement, sold their house and bougnt a motorhome, living in it full time, migrating with the seasons (they continued to do this until the...

I have disk encryption (for some files) on my personal computer, we are planning to do encryption for company laptop, but are waiting for top management to make their...

Political capital is as old as, no, older than the human species. We can see similar strategic alliances in chimpanzees. Every tribal society runs on a complex set of spoken...

There is an interesting side point to this.

Some time ago, MS rightly or wrongly accused some open source people of appropriating their code. What we don't know is how much,...

The code should be available. It is still protected by copyright and sometimes patent law. Not much there will aid pirates indeed most piracy needs no access to source code,...

The point of the interview is to find a qualified person, not play mind games.

There may be good reason to call somone's bluff at times, but flatout playing the Python...