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The Windoze CLI, or lack there of.
There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command.
Read moreGoogle at “The Simpsons”
I have a friend that is a DBA with Fotolog . A very novel idea that works well. Worth browsing to see what people take photos of. You never know what you find.
Read moreA lesson in Perl Package Syntax
I was given a perl program today, however running on my Fedora Core 5 install gave me the following error. $ ./nameofcommand Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
Read moreIt’s makes me cry
I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.
Read moreYour Ideal Job Requirements?
I came across in my papers while searching for some taxation information, a list that I made to use as an evaluation in an “ideal job”. This goes with a general comment I made only a few weeks ago to a number of colleagues.
Read moreSHOW STATUS Gotcha
Well, it’s Sunday night so I will put this down to being the weekend. The background to being caught out is a request I made to my local Users Group mailing list for some information on people’s environments because I wanted to some empirical data analysis without having any more knowledge of the systems.
Read moreMicrofox ?
I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish.
Read moreThe fast pace of technology in a Web 2.0 world
I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching).
Read moreNo Spam Today
Huh, tricked you. As if! However I was looking at my Akismet Spam section in WordPress , the open source software that runs my blog, and it gave me this message.
Read moreThe RAT and the CAT
No, it’s not a bedtime story, is a serious system’s design concept and I’m amazing that people don’t know about this. As I mentioned in If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application I was doing a Java Code Review, and I found a clear case of a much simplier solution.
Read moreIf you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application.
The art of data modelling is definitely lost on some [most] people, or they never found it, even though they think they did. Over dinner with good friend Morgan last night we were swapping present stories on the topic.
Read moreBecome named in Firefox 2
So, FireFox have come up with a novel idea to promote it’s product. Check out Firefox Day. The official blurb: Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.
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