From the monthly archives: January 2010

Dear Priceline: Seriously, WTF?

By On January 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Dear Priceline,

You really can’t do better than $680 for a flight from LAX to Vegas? Seriously, why is this the #1 listing? For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a 1 hour flight that normally costs $60 each way.

Southwest (cropped out middle prices for simplicity)

Lame.

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The Lack of Flexibility of Stored Procedures in MySQL

By On January 6, 2010 · 6 Comments

Over three years ago I wrote about how you cannot use a stored procedure in a subquery. Well, it’s 2010, and I’m still annoyed by this and a handful of other things.

I was just working today on a report consisting of a series of queries, taking about a minute to generate. Some of [...]

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Redhat/Centos: Control Apache Startup with Chkconfig

By On January 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Copy apachectl (or symlink it) to /etc/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines at the end of the comment section:

# chkconfig: 2345 64 36
# description: script for starting and stopping httpd

chkconfig –add httpd

These commands will now work:

service httpd start
service httpd stop

Additionally, apache will start when [...]

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Linux/OSX: find out what network ports are in use

By On January 5, 2010 · 2 Comments

To get a quick idea of what ports you have open on your local box, you can use nmap.

~ jhaddad$ nmap localhost
Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-05 11:06 PST
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 499 closed ports, 492 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
[...]

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