Question
Should the word “internet” be capitalized?
Answer
No. Recently we learned that the word “internet” should be lower case. You can learn more by going to this link.
Historically the term “continuous integration” has been the norm in the world of technology. In this article, Amazon defines it. As of two days ago, Amazon posted an article using the term “continual integration.” This website helps promote the grammatically correct “continual integration.”
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Problem scenario: A recruiter warns that he/she will not accept OPT resumes for a specific solution. What are OPT resumes?
Solution: OPT stands for Optional Practical Training. OPT employment authorization last for 12 months and is related to academic training in the U.S. To learn more, see this link. If you are a U.S. citizen like the author of this blog,
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Looking for a downloadable anti-virus or anti-spyware solution on Amazon? You will not find this on Amazon: The latest Lavasoft Ad-Aware Total Security is an all-in-one solution for Windows computers. Ad-Aware Total Security has a great OS firewall and strong anti-spyware capabilities. Its virus database and scanning technology provides great all-around protection. To learn more about this under-rated security solution for Windows computers or to buy it, click on this link.
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Update on 3/30/17: The Puppet IIS module has been updated, and the problem below has been eliminated.
Problem scenario: You want Puppet to install IIS. You install the IIS module and find the README.md file has this Puppet DSL (as of 12/13/16):
class mywebsite {
iis::manage_app_pool {‘my_application_pool’:
enable_32_bit =true,
managed_runtime_version =’v4.0′,
}
iis::manage_site {‘www.mysite.com’:
site_path =’C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite’,
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Ansible’s documentation (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#inventory) indicates that inventory variables (in .yml files) are assigned with colons (“:”) and not equals (“=”) signs. However in practice, equals (“=”) signs are necessary for key-value assignments and colons (“:”) do not work. If you have found their documentation to be correct, please post a comment.
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Bootstrap
Definition 1 (transitive verb) of bootstrap: To turn on a computer so that the operating system is completely functional. Source: The fifth definition of “bootstrap” in Dictionary.com is specific to “computers.”
Definition 2 (transitive verb) of bootstrap: To intentionally initiate multiple subprocesses (especially a primarily automatic sequence of often incremental subprocesses), as in a batch execution, from a single file or action.
Examples of definition 2:
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Some open source projects don’t always listen to contributors’ feedback. We reported a couple errors that we found in OpenStack documentation to openstack.org. Here are the errors we saw (as of 2/2/17):
#1 If you go to this link, you’ll find two “Storm EDP” links:
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/sahara-specs/
One points to this link: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/sahara-specs/specs/liberty/storm-scaling.html
We see no reason why the title/header of this above page is “Storm EDP” and not “Storm Scaling.” My attempt at a contribution was to not have two “Storm EDP” links in the first link of this post.
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Python is a great language.
On 11/10/15 we found an error on this Python documentation site. Here is what we saw for the endswith function documentation:
The Syntax for the “endswith” function, on the face of the documentation, involves “startswith”. We updated the site by clicking the “Edit on GitHub” link. We corrected it on 11/10/15. Hopefully someone will approve this change and the canonical syntax in the documentation will be corrected.
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