Meryl looks at Super hero dateability – Woo! She gave Batman 4 stars!
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The Truth Laid Bear: Banned in …
The Truth Laid Bear: Banned in Saudi Arabia. SA is blocking access to a number of sites!
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I wondered why Second p0st was …
I wondered why Second p0st was so high on the list of blogs at Salon, then I noticed his Ecosystem which of course everyone will link to. /me jumps on bandwagon!
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Bookmarklet fun!Calling all Ma …
Bookmarklet fun!Calling all Mailman administrators! Are you sick of continually clicking on “Discard”, “Discard”, “Discard” to rid your lists of all that spam? If you are then drag this link to your toolbar or bookmark it. When you go into Mailman simply click on that bookmark and it will auto-select the discard radio box. * <a href="javascript:var i=0,j,D,E,F=document.forms,discard=2;while(i<=F.length){E=F[i].elements;for(j=0;j<e.length;j++){D=E[j];if(D.type=='radio'&&D.value==discard){D.checked=true;}}i++;}“>Discard Mailman Spam * If you’re using Mailman 2.0 or upwards then change the $discard variable to ‘3’ because that version has an extra field.update! You’ll have to remove the BR tag at the end of the bookmarklet for it to work. Not […]
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More phplib fun!We're using de …
More phplib fun! We’re using default_auth on our site and thanks to some help I managed to make phplib play nicely with our template system. That is, until my boss tested it and discovered that if you enter an incorrect username/password the phplib loginform appears. Look around line 174 of auth.inc for the culprit.After I was almost finished a long email to the phplib list I figured out what to do. If the user types in an incorrect username/password then log them in as “nobody”! The fix to do that took all of 5 seconds and is below: Edit local.inc, […]
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PostgreSQL has a feature calle …
PostgreSQL has a feature called MVCC or Multi-Version Concurrency Control. Here’s a simple example to show it in action. I think it’s like CVS for databases. MVCC, or Multi-Version Concurrency Control, is the technology that PostgreSQL uses to avoid unnecessary locking. If you have ever used another SQL capable DBMS, such as MySQL or Access, you have probably noticed that there are times when a reader has to wait for access to information in the database. The waiting is caused by people who are writing to the database. In short, the reader is blocked by writers who are updating records. […]
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For the paranoid among you, Wo …
For the paranoid among you, World Conspiracy Map. Thanks Colm for the link!