The New Show 13: Unlucky For Some

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The best and worst jobs in IT, memorable parties, shopping habits, getting old and grumpy, and self improvement goals.

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00:00:43 What’s the best party you’ve ever been to and what’s the worst?
00:06:54 We get more cynical and grumpy as we get older. Why?
00:10:56 What do you think the best and worst jobs are in IT?
00:17:08 If you could be hypnotised to stop yourself doing something from today onwards, what would it be?
00:25:33 One big shop or lots of little shops?

2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte

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Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.

 

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Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop

Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics

What the hell is going on with .uk?

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

.uk overlord Nominet tells everyone not to worry about ‘distorted’ vote allocations in its board elections

 

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We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.

 

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