Google: “I have everything!” Facebook: “I know everybody!” Internet: “Without me, you all are nothing.” Electricity: “Keep talking, bitches.
Whitespace
Because whitespace matters.
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2012-01-16
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2011-12-01
Source: thedirektor
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2011-11-01
At intervals, becoming more frequent as apocalypse approaches and starting at ten hours before shutdown, warning messages are displayed on the terminals of all users logged in.
— Shutdown Apocalypse, shutdown(8) man page
Source: freebsd.org
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2011-10-25
Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility.
— Seth Godin’s Blog: The difference between management and leadership
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
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2011-10-24
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
— Albert Einstein
Source: cnicolaou
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Rsync friendly database dumps
I frequently use
mysqldumpin scripts @ work. For transferring databases to test environments and for various backup purposes.I noticed a gzipped SQL dump could take a long time to transfer even though the changes were negligible. After a little research I came up with to tips on getting blazing fast transfers:
mysqldump --skip-dump-date: Skip the date-stamp in the SQL file, an identical database will generate an identical dump even though time passes.gzip --rsyncable: Fromman gzip: While compressing, synchronize the output occasionally based on the input. This increases size by less than 1 percent most cases, but means that the rsync(1) program can much more efficiently synchronize files compressed with this flag.Put those two together and you saved yourself a lot of bandwidth.
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2011-10-21
Source: gastricfutures
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A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says ‘Can I join you?’
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2011-10-20
Ask a random sampling of people if they think we will have colonized space in 500 years, and I expect it will be a while before you run into someone who says it’s unlikely. Our migration from this planet is a seductive vision of the future that has been given almost tangible reality by our entertainment industry. We are attracted to the narrative that our primitive progenitors crawled out of the ocean, just as we’ll crawl off our home planet (en masse) some day.
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2011-10-19
Sometimes a picture says a 1000 words, illustration for an Politiken.dk article (danish) about the lacking IT possibilities in the danish public schools.


