February 2012
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Feb 7th
January 2012
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“Google: “I have everything!” Facebook: “I know...”
Jan 16th
November 2011
1 post
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Nov 30th
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October 2011
9 posts
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“At intervals, becoming more frequent as apocalypse approaches and starting at...”
– Shutdown Apocalypse, shutdown(8) man page
Oct 31st
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“Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility.”
– Seth Godin’s Blog: The difference between management and leadership
Oct 25th
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
Oct 24th
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Rsync friendly database dumps
I frequently use mysqldump in 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...
Oct 24th
Oct 21st
4 tags
“A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says...”
Oct 21st
59 notes
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“Ask a random sampling of people if they think we will have colonized space in...”
– Why Not Space?
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
“The Cycle Wherein Apple Creates A Product And People Copy It And Then “Improve”...”
– And the Headline of the Week award goes to Trevor Gilbert.
Oct 19th
August 2011
6 posts
“As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on...”
– HP To Apple: You Win.
Aug 19th
Peek Inside the Lamborghini Factory →
Aug 6th
2 tags
Observing humanity
The coffee automat at work has, because of wear and tear over time, lost central pieces of hardware. It has come to a situation where you have to hold you coffeemug at a precise angle and at a precise height to get most of the liquid to the right location. And even then you only have a 50/50 percent chance of not getting your hands sprayed with boiling hot water… But even with this clear and...
Aug 5th
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Selecting a random file
Reason: I have a recurring calendar event, reminding me to test our backup. I do this by restoring one of our websites from tape, run a few tests on it and then delete it again. To be fair :) and a little safer, I didn’t want to restore the same website over and over again. So random selection it is! I found this elegant solution: ls -1 | shuf -n1
Aug 4th
“Other than a small diversion over central Nevada, the “handwriting” is pretty...”
– Boeing Flies Giant ‘747′ Pattern Across United States. Wired.com
Aug 3rd
404 page not found →
Nosh takes the “404 page not found” to a new level. Make sure your sound is turned on when you watch!
Aug 2nd