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Getting serious with PostgreSQL

Posted 01-29-2009 at 10:45 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)

Ok, so the company I work for has set a hard date for the release/launch of our new flagship product...June 1st.

This is interesting for a number of reasons. First, the 5.0 project has been in "under heavy development" status for a seriously long time now (late 2007 I joined the 5.0 team, which at that time was roughly 20% done. I later moved from that team to the reporting division, spent a year there and then moved to my current role as DBA). I figured the 5.0 project...

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Ah!

Posted 01-29-2009 at 04:02 AM by Shibanee

You may all! Call me a total Dummy. no prob!Did I remember to put in a wireless card in my desktop! Nope!But I did remember taking it out some time ago!The wireless router does not pick up, but a card should!!But Later! Have to pay the rent on caravan storage and then! Try to avoid being dragged around the shops!But I ditched Unbuntu! Later I will pop in to the local newsagents and grab a few linux mags. Play with the laptop and see how things go!

In the meantime. You all have a great...

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Convert DVDs to xvid (avi) using dvd2xvid in opensuse

Posted 01-29-2009 at 01:32 AM by rbkumaran

Tags audio, avi, dvd, dvd2xvid, encoder

Dvd2Xvid is free opensource simple easy to use utility to convert DVDs into Xvid video formats. dvd2xvid is a simple GUI for MEncoder aimed at converting DVDs to xvid formats.Read More

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Network configuration problems

Posted 01-28-2009 at 04:22 PM by framp
Updated 01-28-2009 at 04:26 PM by framp

Just in case somebody has network configuration problems. I wrote a script which analyzes the existing network config for common config errors and creates a log of a lot network config details of your system. This log is very helpful for everybody who tries to solve network problems.

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GMaps API tile server

Posted 01-28-2009 at 12:59 PM by spirov92
Updated 01-28-2009 at 01:03 PM by spirov92

Tags google, google maps, php

So, I've been messing around with the GMaps API, trying to create my custom map type. It took me a lot of time, so I decided to share the code I ended up with.
This script serves content to the Google Maps API. It divides each requested tile into 8x8=64 squares and for each one displays the highest-rated picture that belongs to it.

PHP Code:



<? 
//this script should serve content for the gmaps api 
 
//we're echo-ing out an image, so we should show that

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