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Mixed links and commentary
pgAdmin 1.9 will have some nice new features. The query designer will probably save a few keystrokes when working with star schemas. The MySQL Performance Blog explains the different meanings of COUNT. Very nice. I usually use COUNT(1) or COUNT(*), but it is very useful to know about other possibilities. I got this one from…
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Interesting phish
Recently I’ve received the following phish: Return-Path <[email protected]> Authentication-Results mta403.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=hosts.co.uk; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received from 85.233.160.25 (EHLO outgoing-smtp.namesco.net) (85.233.160.25) by mta403.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:04:47 -0700 Received from [192.168.0.7] (helo=artemis.hosts.co.uk) by outgoing-smtp.namesco.net with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KrKrG-0008PU-2d for [email protected]; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:05:20 +0100 Received from babs-education.info…
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Augmenting user interfaces
I was reading Jeff’s post on Coding Horror about naughty filters (and I more or less agree – you can’t fix a social problem with technology). Towards the end he mentions Yahoo Mail, which brought to mind a nice feature they added recently to search: Now, when you do a keyword search, it presents a…
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Media you can get for free
Some time ago I’ve written about (commercial) software which you can get (legally!) for free. Now I’m writing about the media you can (legally!) consume on the “Intertubes”. There are of course the well known players like Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and so on (although some of those are not available outside the USA – a…
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Procrastination
Zee Frank – pro-cra. “You might learn a whole new programming language to put off something usefull with the ones you already know!” – Brilliant!
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It can happen to the best of us
I was reading Scott Hanselman’s The Weekly Source Code 33 – Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome and came upon this piece of text: Older versions of ATL, and by older I mean pre-Visual C++ 2005, used dynamically generated code in small isolated cases. Obviously, without the appropriate APIs this is going to cause problems…
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Free space on an NTFS volume
I found this article via Raymond Chen’s blog: NTFS Misreports Free Space?. It’s very interesting (if you like getting to the bottom of technical things). Incidentally it reminded me of an old question I always had: Why don’t processes which need to read all the files from a given volume (for example AV scanners) use…
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Fun Slashdot comment
On the topic of ReiserFS vs. Ext3 benchmarks: Just search for benchmarks, something like reiserfs beats ext2 by huge margins when it comes to important workloads such as a mail server. Hell, it probably beats it to death.
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Financial markets
Lately I’ve been reading about financial markets in general and equity markets specifically. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve certainly picked up some things. What surprised me is how “distant” some elements of these markets are from reality. For example: stock is easy to understand – you get part of the ownership of…
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A cuddly little penguin
Most probably a Fiordland Penguin: