hitreCords Summer in the City show – NYC
August 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
http://hitrecord.org/records/182869
Too bad wordpress won’t let you post embedded videos… that’s so 2007
MySQL: ibdata files do not shrink on database deletion [innodb] | Technology: Learn and Share
August 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
A great discussion on a potential problem for database servers with limited drive space (life EC2 small instances). The best solution is in the comments section so be sure to read through.
One very interesting thing I noticed with MySQL was that if you delete a database, ibdata file doesn’t shrink by that much space to minimize disk usage. I deleted the database and checked usage of /usr/local/mysql/var folder and noticed that ibdata file is still the same size. So the problem I face now is, how do I claim back this space?
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www: the origin of the BLINK tag
July 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
A very interesting story of the origins of the BLINK tag.
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The Origins of the <Blink> Tag
I am widely credited as the inventor of the tag. For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying. I won’t deny the invention, but there is a bit more to the story than is widely known.
Back in 1994 I was a founding engineer at Netscape, prior to that I had written the Lynx browser, which predated all of the other popular browsers at that time. Lynx had been and still is a text only browser and is commonly used in a console window on UNIX machines. At Netscape we were building software that used a graphical user interface and could express vastly more text styles and layouts as well as images and other media. We spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the web and new technologies that would enable new classes of documents, applications and uses. A few examples of those thoughts were, HTML Tables, SSL for secure communications, Plugins for extensions, and JavaScript to enable dynamic HTML.
Sometime in late summer I took a break with some of the other engineers and went to a local bar on Castro street in Mountain View. The bar was the St. James Infirmary and it had a 30 foot wonder woman statue inside among other interesting things. At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife.
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How to Remove Addresses from the Entourage Address Cache – support.microsoft.com
June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
I haven’t found much worth posting lately but this one has been a thorn in my side for some time. I find it equally as interesting that you need to jump through so many hoops in Entourage when the same issue in Outlook can be solved with one or two clicks. I hope some people find this helpful.
Circuit Simulator Applet – falstad.com
February 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
This is a very cool little app that I found after listening to Security Now Episode 233: Let’s Design a Computer. Some of the basic circuits were hard to visualize and this app kind of brings them to life with animated current flow and some interactivity. For the podcast you’ll want to look in the Circuits menu for the Logic Families/RTL for the circuits being discussed.
Get Vista and Samba to work – Code Monkey Business AU
February 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
I used these instructions to get my Windows 7 clients to connect to my Mac 10.4 server.
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Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. According to a Google search Samba doesn’t support this yet.
Update: Some readers have pointed out that NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Samba 3.0. However, this certainly wasn’t an option to get this running in my instance.
To get Vista to work with Samba follow the simple instructions
Get Vista and Samba to work – Blogs – Code Monkey Business – Builder AU.
iPhone Wifi not working? Reset your network settings | A Mountain Top, LLC
February 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
iPhone Wifi not working? Reset your network settings | A Mountain Top, LLC.
From the Home Screen, I clicked on “Settings”. From there, I scrolled down to “General” and clicked on it. From there, I scrolled to the bottom, clicked “Reset”, then “Reset Network Settings”. After accepting the warning that I was doing something dangerous and clicking the giant red button, the iPhone started buzzing and shaking and generally throwing a fit. After it was done getting reset, I simply went back into Settings -> Wifi, saw my network, connected and it worked!
Google Moderator
January 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
Let your audience decide
Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.
Everyone’s voice is heard
The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.
Be creative
Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.
Google PowerMeter
January 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
Google PowerMeter
Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming. Google PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices and visualizes this information for you on iGoogle (your personalized Google homepage). And, Google PowerMeter is free.
Studies show that being able to see your electricity usage in near real time, throughout the day, makes it easier to reduce it and save money. This sort of feedback requires either an advanced electricity meter, a “smart meter,” or a consumer-owned electricity management device, and many of today’s smart meters don’t display information to the consumer. Consumers should have access to data on their personal electricity use, control who gets to see this data and choose from a range of services to help them understand and benefit from this data. We’re working with federal and state governments to ensure our energy policies encourage consumer information; read our comments to the Department of Energy on smart grid investment in the stimulus, Edward Lu’s testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and our comments to the California Public Utilities Commission and our joint statement with leading companies and NGOs. We hope that consumers will soon be empowered with an entire ecosystem of energy information products and services.
Google PowerMeter is a project of Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, which aspires to leverage the power of information and technology to address global challenges.
Mac OS 10.5.7 update broke JMeter
August 3, 2009 Leave a Comment
The latest Java update from Apple broke JMeter… not sure why but JMeter needs Java 1.5. Add this line near the top of your jakarta-jmeter-2.X.X/bin/jmeter file using your handy dandy text editor. I like TextWrangler.
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5"
If you use any of the other jmeter run scripts you may need to add this to them as well.
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