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Philip Couling
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How do I use swap space for emergencies only?
Feb 8, 2019
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What specifically can swap do that RAM can't?
Dec 10, 2019
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How can I recursively delete all empty files and directories in Linux?
Apr 4, 2020
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Does the Linux kernel need a file system to run?
Mar 22, 2019
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How can it be that ssh somename works, while nslookup somename does not?
May 7, 2019
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Why does catting a symlinked file and redirecting the output to the original file make the latter file empty?
Feb 19, 2021
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Can I download and write a disk image to partition without saving as a file?
Jan 5, 2022
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Unmount /boot after booting
Apr 5, 2022
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How to install cross-compiler on Ubuntu 18.04?
Apr 2, 2019
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Bash script should only kill those instances of another script's that it has launched
Mar 11, 2019
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Should we have a stock answer for broken Windows boot?
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Is it okay to post, here on meta, a simple Thank You to our moderators?
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Is making personal attacks ever justified?
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What do you think about questions for which answers could be trivially Googled?
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Which programming languages are appropriate here?
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Add timestamp column with default NOW() for new rows only
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Character with byte sequence 0x9d in encoding 'WIN1252' has no equivalent in encoding 'UTF8'
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What is the XY problem?
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Can not connect to local PostgreSQL
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Does C++ support 'finally' blocks? (And what's this 'RAII' I keep hearing about?)

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