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Answer by DocSalvager for How to install 32-bit Brother drivers on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 or later? - 2018-07-13 Updated Solution Though this an old question, it and its answers provided the clues necessary for me to enable CUPS printing from a 64-bit OS v...
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Answer by DocSalvager for Database design for generic behaviour - This sounds like a couple of classic one-to-many relationships. You haven't indicated what the thing is that they are commenting and/or favoriting so I'l...
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Answer by DocSalvager for UI issue for Add, Edit and Delete experience - Several thoughts... - As a former DBA, please give strong consideration to never actually deleting anything from the database. People make ...
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Comment by DocSalvager on forward vs. backward symlinks: administrative practice? - I think terminology is tripping us up some here. The topmost directory / is called "the root directory" but there is also a /root directory under that in m...
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Home Improvement

Answer by DocSalvager for Is there any reason (code or otherwise) to not vent one room into another? - I would consider adding a bank of fans, (3) 6" fans maybe, mounted in the wall above the sofa as close to the ceiling as possible. They would pull air fr...
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Answer by DocSalvager for Unix: Files starting with a dash, - - Another technique is to include the parent directory with the file name... To rename the file -file-to-rename to file-to-rename... mv ../parent-dir/-fil...
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Database Administrators

Answer by DocSalvager for In what data type should I store an email address in database? - Any variation of VARCHAR uses only as much space in the data block as needed. The additional bytes for storing the length are trivial compared to the spa...
13 years ago
Raspberry Pi

Answer by DocSalvager for How can I extend the life of my SD card? - You could try running Puppy Linux which is completely ram-resident. It's very small and blindingly fast since it runs completely in memory by copying the...
13 years ago
Stack Overflow

Answer by DocSalvager for Python vs Bash - In which kind of tasks each one outruns the other performance-wise? - *Typical mainframe flow...* Input Disk/Tape/User (runtime) --> Job Control Language (JCL) --> Output Disk/Tape/Screen/Printer ...
13 years ago
Software reVisions

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