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Comment on Compiling Ruby on Ubuntu – Part 2 by Todd

Todd — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:32:13 +0000

A very clever use of apt-get (build-dep), I’ve never thought of that before I’m ashamed to say. Works like a charm, thank you.

Comment on mysql: --i-am-a-dummy by jmernin

jmernin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:19 +0000

Good find Martin.

I checked each of the recommended/sample .cnf files that come with the Solaris Coolstack 1.1 version of MySQL and, in each case, the “safe-updates” setting is turned off (commented out) by default.

However, what is strange is that one of these sample files has a line above the commented out setting saying, “Only allow UPDATEs and DELETEs that use keys” but all of the others say, “Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL”.

In any case, enabling this setting was a simple matter of commenting out the “safe-updates” setting the /etc/my.cnf and restarting MySQL.

Comment on Installing Ruby on Ubuntu by martinmurphy.com - Martin Murphy » Compiling Ruby on Ubuntu - Part 2

martinmurphy.com - Martin Murphy » Compiling Ruby on Ubuntu - Part 2 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:28:10 +0000

[...] on from my previous post Installing Ruby on Ubuntu, I tried to install/compile Ruby (and rubygems, rake) on Ubuntu server 7.04. Some things I needed [...]

Comment on Create an in-cell bar graph with Excel by Martin

Martin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:00:37 +0000

Excellent, it gets even better.

Comment on Create an in-cell bar graph with Excel by PaulMWatson

PaulMWatson — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:31:44 +0000

Jing records audio while it records the screen, so you can do a simple voiceover. I don’t think you can add the voiceover later though.

Comment on Nokia N95 vs. iPhone by Nokia’s internet drive Life is grand

Nokia’s internet drive Life is grand — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:17:30 +0000

[...] Martin Murphy linked to an interesting bit of spouting by a Nokia exec on how the Nokia N95 walks all over the iPhone. I won’t get into the feature race debate but will say that having both devices I know which device I’d rather carry around and it isn’t the N95. [...]

Comment on Today’s word from Dictionary.com: triskaidekaphobia by PaulMWatson

PaulMWatson — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:52:38 +0000

I’d give an arm for the word “triskaidekaphobia” to be 13 letters long.

Comment on Back to basics (or some rules for software upgrades) by martinmurphy.com - Martin Murphy » Upgrading Wordpress

martinmurphy.com - Martin Murphy » Upgrading Wordpress — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:35:32 +0000

[...] after my earlier problems with the automated Fantastico upgrade, I did the “manual” upgrade to my WordPress installation. I was moving from 2.0.6 to [...]

Comment on ‘Smart dust’ to explore planets by PaulMWatson

PaulMWatson — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:08:58 +0000

That is fascinating. And unless the initial transport fails it should lessen the chances of one small error ruining the whole mission.

Comment on Macbook by PaulMWatson

PaulMWatson — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:37:54 +0000

I use NeoOffice on the Mac. It is an Open Office port that works on Mac OS X.