Note to self, if you can’t find your installed ODBC-driver. It might be because you installed a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit system. Try looking in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
That’s all.
Wanted to play an Realmedia file? Installed w32codecs? Now Totem is freezing your Ubuntu Hardy? And by freezing, I mean: you can move the mouse, nothing else works, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no ctrl-alt-F1.
Then do the following:
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 …