Archive for May, 2005
Windows in a window where it belongs.
I know I gave up my hatred for windows but after having it installed on my desktop for a week I’ve decided that it needs to be put in it’s place. Today I succeeded in installing ubuntu linux, vmware, and windows xp. Now windows is in a window where it belongs. It’s so nice to [...]
How to get your question answered on irc by example
n0other: Hello, I have a field publish_to, I want to select only those entries, where publish_to is not older than today, publish_to contains for example ’2005-05-30′, I do: SELECT * FROM table WHERE (publish_to – “‘.date(‘Y-m-d’) .’”) > 0; (php date function), but that doesnt work, how should I implement this, I cannot change date [...]
One day someone is going to come up with a word that rhymes with orange.
… and everyone is going to be really upset. Especially M&M Mars and their horrible new advertising compaign. Borange – The same fruit you can get every day from any place that has fruit. Even when you don’t want it (a twist on the side of a breakfast dish). Add your own…
Root, mysql, root – A simple explanation of users.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the newbie crowd about the difference between MySQL and OS users. It works like this. Your operating system supports users. That’s who you log in as when prompted. When logged in you can start processes or programs. If I log into my linux box as user [...]
When MySQL Will Order Data.
This is cut and paste from an email I’m sending to the general mailing list. I’m putting this here so people can add comments. If any of this is wrong or you can think of a situation I didn’t. Add a nice comment Here, off the top of my head are situations in mysql where [...]
So much to talk about. Part 2 – What Now?
Driving past the crazy chain people coming down off the mountain I saw some very unique scenery. It was odd to think that all of this great country was going to be so close to home again. About this time I began to get fidgety for the ride to end. The scenery surprises were just [...]
Watch Your Step.
It seems the mild temperatures and rain around here are the perfect breeding ground for snails. Walking between the buildings at work, to and from my car I saw no less than 30 snails today. I have been lucky enough not to step on them thus far but I noticed a few spots where the [...]
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I got a little happy with the comment delete trying to clear out some spam comments. If I dropped your comment sorry.