Hence Puppet and Chef to automate configuration, so you know every machine has an identical software configuration and is running the right services.

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IR The configuration of the global machine on the cover of your survey in effect prevents every gear in the machine from rotating.

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Dave shut down his machine tooling shop and now designs tooling configuration software.

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That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.

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Customers who opted for the lower range configuration will still get a car, of course, but it will be a 60 kWh machine with software restrictions on range.

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