by nazham on
September 24th, 2008
There may be a case where you may want to access a certain directory or drive on a remote machine, and mount it to your local PC. For example, I have a headless CentOS box running Apache where all of my web application codes are sitting. Editing those web application codes are a nightmare when [...]
by nazham on
September 21st, 2008
It’s been awhile since I’m searching for a perfect online backup application. I’ve tried many, but none have really captured my attention. Not until I’ve tried Dropbox.
Dropbox is a free, multi-platform, online backup and synchronization application. My first attraction to Dropbox is because the client tools supports Linux. It also suports Mac OSX, and oh [...]
Tags: Backup . Dropbox . Online Backup
by nazham on
September 19th, 2008
I have just found out a nifty little trick regarding MySQL output the other day. I just had to put this up as a reminder to myself, and also to share with the viewers.
Let say, you want to have the output of your SELECT statement created to a text file. The MySQL database server could [...]
by nazham on
September 18th, 2008
I have one problem the other day; Why does my “SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE col IN (@list)” does not work? The col datatype is int, while the @list parameter is a comma-separated varchar.
The Problem
In a stored procedure, I’m composing a SELECT statement with a WHERE clause in which the column condition datatype is integer, while [...]
Tags: SQL
by rizal on
September 17th, 2008
Ok, the Honda City is not that ugly; I just thought it would make a great headline. But still, the Honda City is not exactly everyone’s dream car. Are Honda designers not talented? Surely they could come up with a better design? Yes, quite easily, I’m sure. It’s just that Honda is applying a slightly [...]
Tags: Car industry . Microeconomics
