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fossils
About this tag
The tag fossils on WindowsForum.com covers two distinct topics. In the context of software development, Fossil is a source code management platform discussed alongside Git, Perforce, and other SCM tools in guides for choosing the right system in 2025. The tag also covers paleontological fossils, including dinosaur fossils linked to the asteroid strike that caused extinction, a dinosaur buried at sea, a stone fossil of a man found in a collapsed mine, the Tully Monster, and fossils that could rewrite human history. Additionally, the tag appears in a lighthearted Water Cooler thread where a user jokingly refers to themselves as a fossil due to their age and experience with old computer technology.
Source code management is no longer a niche developer convenience — it is the central nervous system of modern software delivery, and choosing the right system in 2025 determines how fast teams ship, how well they secure supply chains, and how easily they scale across distributed workforces and...
Source code management remains the backbone of modern software delivery — and in 2025 the landscape reflects both continuity and rapid evolution as teams balance Git’s ubiquity with specialized tools for scale, binary assets, security, and integrated DevSecOps workflows. The Analytics Insight...
I was talking to HOLDUM333 yesterday, on an open thread on a Win7 help issue, and we got to talking about the old days of computer stuff, and he's even older than I am--starting to feel like a fossil now that I'm retired! :bigtongue:
So, he suggested we talk about that stuff here in the Water...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russian authorities have confiscated three tonnes of mammoth tusks from a criminal gang which tried to smuggle them out of the country.
The court office of the northern city of St. Petersburg said on Thursday that it had...
Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses?
For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity's closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses?
This isn't just a question of beauty. Scientists posited that the big snouts could...