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• March 18th, 2009

  What does 24x7x8 mean?

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• March 9th, 2009

  Which religion has the principle that the journey is more important than the destination?

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• September 23rd, 2008

  Sensitive teeth after eating specific food?

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• September 3rd, 2008

  Why are single-trip flights so expensive?

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• April 3rd, 2008

  Place to be?

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• March 18th, 2009

  What does 24x7x8 mean?

  Sorry, I should have mentioned that the context is service, or something similar. My current best guess is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and an 8 hour response time. But not sure about that. From lefteh, it could then also mean 24/7 during 8 years.
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• March 9th, 2009

  Which religion has the principle that the journey is more important than the destination?

  Yup, the Zen spirit. Although I feel that rules out Buddhism, because I think I specifically have something with ‘more important’ in mind (unless that just doesn’t exist, and I messed things up).
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• September 13th, 2008

  Why is my Mac's HD so full?

  As long as you don’t have eg Photoshop installed, or some other application that came from a a DVD, it’s likely somewhere in your home folder. Perhaps you installed and removed something, and that ended up in the Trash? The Trash can accumulate quite a bit of data over time. I don’t have another suggestion for a free app, but there’s something that comes with OSX that you can use; if you’re not afraid to use the Terminal: – Fire up Terminal – type or copy the following: du -k | sort -n Takes a short while to run. It should go through all subfolders in your user folders, outputting the result in Kilobytes, and sorting them them in increasing order. If you want to do that for your whole system, try the following command in the Terminal: sudo du -k / | sort -n providing your password when asked. Will take a while to go through all the different folders. Always works for me.
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• September 13th, 2008

  Why is my Mac's HD so full?

  Have a play with GrandPerspective. At first it may look a a bit confusing, but play around with it to get an idea of where things are clogging up on your disk. And don’t underestimate what goes in eg /System, /usr or /Library. Depends what you have installed (eg, the Developer Tools can eat quite a bit of disk space, and possibly various languages as well).
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• September 4th, 2008

  What are the constants of the universe?

  This may be a good read, if you like to know more: http://www.amazon.com/Just-Six-Numbers-Forces-Universe/dp/0465036732/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220553420&sr=8–2 (Martin Rees is the Astronomer Royal in the UK, and certainly knows his stuff.) In addition, it goes down from 26 or 42 to just 6…
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