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History tables pros, cons and gotchas - using triggers, sproc or at application level

I am currently playing around with the idea of having history tables for some of my tables in my database. …

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Why are radio buttons called 'radio' buttons?

I was thinking about my first contact with html language and I remembered when I was looking for that specific …

user-interface radio-button history uielement
Historical reason behind different line ending at different platforms

Why did DOS/Windows and Mac decide to use \r\n and \r for line ending instead of \n? Was …

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If registers are so blazingly fast, why don't we have more of them?

In 32bit, we had 8 "general purpose" registers. With 64bit, the amount doubles, but it seems independent of the 64bit change …

performance history cpu-registers assembly
What does ZIP stand for (the compression format, not the postal codes)

Does anybody know for what the acronym ZIP stands for which was and is used in programs like PKZIP and …

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converting the hash tag timestamps in history file to desired string

when i store the output of history command via ssh in a file i get something like this ssh -i …

bash unix ssh history time-format
Dynamic JQuery Mobile Navigation

I am having an issue with jQuery and how to dynamically process urls. What I would like to do is …

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The History Behind the Definition of a 'String'

I have never thought about until recently, but I'm not sure why we call strings strings. I am a .NET …

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Unix commandline history substitution ^foo^bar (for multiple replacements)

Occasionally I use the bash command to replace string in previous command: ^foo^bar Today I wanted to make the …

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