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Dear Priceline,
You really can’t do better than $680 for a flight from LAX to Vegas? Seriously, why is this the #1 listing? For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a 1 hour flight …
Over three years ago I wrote about how you cannot use a stored procedure in a subquery. Well, it’s 2010, and I’m still annoyed by this and a handful of other things.
I was just working …
Copy apachectl (or symlink it) to /etc/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines at the end of the comment section:
chkconfig …
To get a quick idea of what ports you have open on your local box, you can use nmap.
~ jhaddad$ nmap localhost Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-05 11:06 PST Interesting ports on …
I bought a MacBook Air in June this year, refurbished. I didn’t really use it a lot for day to day work, and when I didn’t use it I was charging it. It was very convenient - it weighs …
Looking for instances particular column in a large schema can be a pain. Fortunately the information schema makes this pretty easy, if your columns have a consistent naming convention.
SELECT …
I’m sick of looking through chat logs to find an IP geo lookup database.
Now it’s here, possibly forever, or until I stop paying for hosting.
Here’s a great guide for setting up a new remote git repo. Thank you, Tool Man Tim.
I found a good tutorial on IBM on doing Python development with Eclipse. It might be a little out of date, but I think only the screens got moved around a little bit. It includes details on how to …
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