To anticipate and prevent
I’ve been an avid XM Radio fan for many years, since I heard of the concept of satellite radio. This isn’t just because I’m a tech geek, but because at the time I was living in Lake Tahoe and radio up there sucks… a lot. There aren’t many local stations to Tahoe, stations from Reno…
As of late, I’ve been spending a good amount of time reading. Partially, this is because I’ve found some good books to read, partially, because I’ve got my Kindle back. It got broken, and Amazon was kind enough to replace it for free. Anyways, back to the reading. I started on a series of books…
I’ve recently begun tinkering with Amazon Web Services (specifically their EC2 service) and RightScale. The major difference between these “Cloud” computing platforms and others is that the “instance” (i.e A running virtual machine) is temporary. Once it is shut down, all the data is gone. Additionally, the RightScale (and fairly common) way about going things…
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I figured it was about time that I try plugging my blog into Twitterfeed. Basically, it will take the RSS feed of the blog posts, and post them to my Twitter account. I had done this previously with my “Snowulf” account, but I was posting everything by hand. So… we’ll see how things go. I…
As the title states, the caret (^) is not used as an exponent in MySQL. I’m not certain what exactly it does (and couldn’t find any documentation after a quick search), and would love to find out what its purpose is. I ran into this problem today when I noticed that MySQL’s math results (using…
I was called in tonight to fix an iTunes installation problem. When the user tried to uninstall iTunes, they got a popup box asking for a network location to iTune.MSI. When they pressed cancel (because the MSI file didn’t exist) it threw the error: “The installation source for this product is not available”. I checked…