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  • Using vi as a hex editor – linux instead

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  • I’ve been playing around with Voldemort recently for a robust enormous datastore at Esped.com.  One of the frustrating things I found in getting into it was the lack of complete existing code samples, so I thought I’d contribute one to the community. This is a bit more than simple put/get because I need versioning associated

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  • I seem to always get this backwards, so I’m writing it down as a mnemonic.  The correct ln syntax is ln <target> <linkname> e.g. ln /usr/bin/shutdown shutdown

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  • One year ago today, 8/18/2009, I was getting ready to go to lunch with Matt, Jorge and a consultant at work

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  • I watched the old John Wayne “Alamo” movie and wondered about the text of the letter Travis sent out. To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens and compatriots: I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade

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  • Taken directly from Brian’s page and added here so I don’t have to keep searching for this the one time a year that I need it, delete T1 from MyTable T1, MyTable T2 where T1.dupField = T2.dupField and T1.uniqueField > T2.uniqueField

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  • I have be using more javascript and css than I would like recently, but the power is amazing. My most recent revelation was that “read only” is for suckers, and using “disabled” is a better way to protect elements in forms from user access.  the main reason is because you can set disabled=[true|false] on any

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  • This script will backup your mysql DB using mysqldump, but because mysql dump locks the entire DB, this script only backs up one table at a time, thus only locking one table at a time.   #!/bin/sh # System + MySQL backup script # Copyright (c) 2008 Marchost # This script is licensed under GNU GPL version

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  • I was shocked to discover at my new gig that the database password that Tomcat loaded up into JNDI were not encrypted on the live site.  I was even more shocked that Tomcat does not provide a quick fix for this. So here’s mine.  Encode the password in your text file, and figure out where

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  • Here’s my problem.  I’m making the following SQL call from my application: select a.*, b.* from foo a, bar b where a.[column]= b.[column] I don’t know on the application end what fields are in what table, and I don’t know what field the join will be on — that’s all dynamic. I need to know

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