I got to confess something: I love Muxtape! Did you know there is a userscript which lets you download the songs? It’s not encouraged though…
I’ve been trying to learn Shell Scripting. So I decided: why not make a Muxtape downloader. This is my first shell script (longer …
I recently tried to install the Nokia Software Updater, but it gave me this error:
Error 1935. An error occured during the installation of assembly component{303994BA-6487-47AE-AF1D-7AF6088EEBDB}.
Quick research showed that this had something to do with MSXML 4.0. So I went here and downloaded …
Just found this, pretty handy!
// browser detection
var isIE = document.all;
var isIE7 = isIE && window.XMLHttpRequest && window.ActiveXObject;
var isIE6 = isIE && document.implementation;
var isgteIE6 = isIE7 isIE6;
var isIE5 = isIE && window.print && !isgteIE6;
var isIEDOM2 = isIE5 isgteIE6;
var isIE4 = isIE && !isIEDOM2 && navigator.cookieEnabled;
var isIE3 = isIE && !isIE4 && !isIEDOM2;
var isNS …Instead of this:
IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Table1 WHERE ... ) > 0
use this:
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE ...)
Great tip provided by this article.
I’ve been looking for a way to do this for some time now: scrolling unfocused windows, in Windows. You can do it with a Mac (movie here) and on Linux. I became accustomed to it after prolonged Ubuntu-use on my laptop. (It’s incredibly handy on lower resolutions too …
How can you do this (x is number of rows to fetch, y is offset) (Mysql):
SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT x, y
or this (PostgreSQL) :
SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT x OFFSET y
in a DBMS that doesn’t support LIMIT statements (take Oracle for example).
In Oracle, you can use …
The Internet is going crazy about some random number (and it’s not 23).
Apparently, typing out an hexadecimal value will get you killed / deleted / censored / jailed / destroyed / ignored / access to HD-DVD content. It goes something like: 09 F9 11 02. But it also has 9D 74 E3 5B …
We recently updated all our Ubuntu machines from Edgy to Feisty. Updating went smooth, apart from a few problems.
The first problem was that X was freezing at random intervals. Xorg log mentioned nothing special, but the GDM log did:
Error in I830WaitLpRing(), now is 7023360, start is 7021359 pgetbl_ctl …
Another problem (on another machine) was that it refused booting the new kernel.
Also: the live cd didn’t work either, with the same error. A lot of people have problems of this kind, and most of the times they get the following errors:
ata2 is slow to respond, please …What’s up with Google the last few days? First, a glitch was reported about users getting their mails deleted. This glitch is now (luckily) fixed.
Then that hack about your contact list getting stolen, try logging into Gmail and go to one of the following links: