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Stephen Kitt

Debian Developer, SDN engineer at Red Hat working on OpenShift.

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How to enable diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange on Debian 8.0?
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The "proper" way to test if a service is running in a script
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Failed to fetch jessie backports repository
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How is Mono magical?
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Why is pattern "command || true" useful?
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Create symlink - overwrite if one exists
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It's now safe to turn off your computer
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Easy command line method to determine specific ARM architecture string?
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Understanding UNIX permissions and file types
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
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Why did MS-DOS applications built using Turbo Pascal fail to start with a division by zero error on faster systems?
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Why did some old MS-DOS games lack the ability to exit them?
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Why is Ctrl-V the Paste shortcut?
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What character is the MS-DOS cursor?
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Why does the following script delete itself?
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Why is Windows using CR+LF and Unix just LF when Unix is the older system?
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How was copying prevented when the first CD-ROM games were introduced?
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On DOS computers, what would the PARK command do?
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How to get rid of "No match found" when running "rm *"
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What does an idle CPU process do?
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Why is Unix 'self-supporting'?
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Why would anyone choose not to use the lowlatency kernel?
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How to download package not install it with apt-get command?
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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?
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What key factor led to the sudden commercial success of MS Windows with v3.0?
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How to view all the content in an awk array?
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Assigning exit code to a shell local variable
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Do progress reports/logging information belong on stderr or stdout?
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I've just "mv"ed a 49GB directory to a bad file path, is it possible to restore the original state of the files?
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How to determine the maximum number to pass to make -j option?
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