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How do I use swap space for emergencies only?
linux
memory
swap
asked Feb 8, 2019 at 14:28
unix.stackexchange.com
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What specifically can swap do that RAM can't?
linux
swap
asked Dec 10, 2019 at 1:13
unix.stackexchange.com
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How discoverable are IPv6 addresses and AAAA names by potential attackers?
domain-name-system
ipv6
autodiscovery
discovery
asked Apr 15, 2019 at 11:25
serverfault.com
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Serial down voting those who write serially bad answers
discussion
down-votes
serial-voting
asked Nov 25, 2019 at 16:14
meta.stackexchange.com
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Why are bountied questions immune to close votes?
discussion
vote-to-close
bounties
asked Jun 8, 2020 at 8:34
meta.stackexchange.com
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Can finalize be called after a constructor throws an exception?
java
exception
constructor
asked Jan 23, 2013 at 15:33
stackoverflow.com
18
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Can't set 64 bit target for Setup Project in Visual Studio 2017
windows-installer
visual-studio-2017
asked Nov 6, 2017 at 18:49
stackoverflow.com
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How can you determine the hostname associated with an IP on the network?
networking
hostname
ip-address
asked Nov 19, 2019 at 14:43
unix.stackexchange.com
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Why is grub incompatible with the raspberry pi?... Answer - It's not
bootloader
asked Jun 11, 2019 at 9:23
raspberrypi.stackexchange.com
12
votes
Separate "duplicate" close vote and "unclear" vote counts entirely
feature-request
vote-to-close
close-reasons
asked Aug 14, 2020 at 10:03
meta.stackexchange.com
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Add timestamp column with default NOW() for new rows only
stackoverflow.com
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Character with byte sequence 0x9d in encoding 'WIN1252' has no equivalent in encoding 'UTF8'
stackoverflow.com
67
Can not connect to local PostgreSQL
stackoverflow.com
66
Is multiplication faster than float division?
stackoverflow.com
66
What is the XY problem?
meta.stackexchange.com
41
How can I recursively delete all empty files and directories in Linux?
unix.stackexchange.com
32
How can it be that ssh somename works, while nslookup somename does not?
unix.stackexchange.com
32
Does C++ support 'finally' blocks? (And what's this 'RAII' I keep hearing about?)
stackoverflow.com
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Why does catting a symlinked file and redirecting the output to the original file make the latter file empty?
unix.stackexchange.com
30
I think I have multiple postgresql servers installed, how do I identify and delete the 'extra' ones?
serverfault.com
28
Does the Linux kernel need a file system to run?
unix.stackexchange.com
27
pgsql return table ERROR: column reference is ambiguous
stackoverflow.com
25
Can I download and write a disk image to partition without saving as a file?
unix.stackexchange.com
25
Is there a compelling reason why columns in SQL are nullable by default?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
23
Unmount /boot after booting
unix.stackexchange.com
21
IndentationError when pasting code in Python 3 interpreter mode
stackoverflow.com
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How to install cross-compiler on Ubuntu 18.04?
unix.stackexchange.com
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what is the difference between sqlite3 and pdo_sqlite
stackoverflow.com
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Bash script should only kill those instances of another script's that it has launched
unix.stackexchange.com
17
IndentationError when pasting code in Python 3 interpreter mode
unix.stackexchange.com
17
How to convert a db in postgreSQL to utf8?
stackoverflow.com
16
How do you stop PostgreSQL from starting a cluster under linux (Ubuntu)
serverfault.com
16
Piping 'false' does not give non-zero result code
unix.stackexchange.com
15
Are two periods allowed in the local-part of an email address?
serverfault.com
14
Can I have a single server listen on more than 65535 ports by attaching an IPv4 address
unix.stackexchange.com
13
In PostgreSQL, can we directly compare two timestamp with different time zone?
stackoverflow.com
11
Can I get UNIX file permissions to take effect immediately for all processes?
unix.stackexchange.com
9
Why does DNS work the way it does?
serverfault.com
9
Is it required to execute 'ROLLBACK' upon error?
stackoverflow.com
9
Why postgres returns unordered data in select query, after updation of row?
stackoverflow.com
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