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Assuming you can read. And can read the language it's written in. Neither of those is a given.

I didn't. Somewhere along the line, however, she became that person.

Doom multiplayer networking ran over IPX, not TCP/IP, and used a multicast to find other clients. So...trick question: none?

For what task? There are things I use Python for; others I use C.

That said...I'd never use PHP for anything I had a say in.

Not at all. My first wife not only didn't know what I really did for a living ("Oh...he does something in IT..."), she didn't give two shits as long as the money kept coming. And if signing a piece of paper and not asking questions meant more money coming, she would have happily done it without a second thought. I can completely relate to this level of willful ignorance.

See: Strontium-90

You're actually right...IA-64 was suppose to be the 64-bit Intel instruction set, right up until AMD dropped the AMD64 bomb and the market went "backward compatible...got to get me some of that" and Intel went scrambling for Plan B.

As someone who flew every week for about 20 years, the idea of not traveling with a bag to be gone for a week or needing to change flights periodically is pretty strange.

Wirth likes to design computer architectures to go with the languages he creates (he's got a EE undergrad). He did (at least) p-Machine & p-Code (Pascal virtual machine), Lilith (2901-based bit-slice graphical workstation implementing a Modula-2 virtual machine) and Ceres (a series of ns32000 based workstations running Oberon). He's been into FPGAs for a while. Smart guy.

Err...IA-64 is the Itanium instruction set. You mean EM64T, no?

XFS is better than ext4 when:

1) You need huge filesystems (like 100TB+). 2) You need huge numbers of files per directory (in particular, XFS is much faster at creating the files). 3) You have a workload heavily skewed toward streaming data off the disk.

ZFS does 1 & 3 well. Not as good on 2. And it's less mature on Linux than the other 2. But ZFS also has much more robust data integrity feature than either ext4 or XFS.

P.S. - I migrated most of my stuff from XFS to ZFS this year after many years of using XFS (back when IRIX was a thing). P.S.S. - Never run XFS without battery backup and make sure to force sync data to disk periodically.

My Intro to Operating Systems class was in Modula-2 circa 1988. I really liked it. I was lucky enough to subsequently spend quality time with Modula-2 on the 8051 and Modula-3 on Ultrix (which was a really nice evolution of the language). Shame that line of innovation has withered.

I deployed Fireeye over a year ago, and can confirm it's very good a spotting malware that most AV vendors don't. I can't, however, confirm it doesn't have back doors so that three-letter agencies can't tell it not to detect something they don't want it to.