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Photography – Portrait Lighting Patterns 21 Mar 2013 | 10:45 pm
I read an interesting article about common lighting patterns but the example images were lacking some clarity. I took a copy of the images and added some details that would help me remember each techn...
Windows 7, really? 7 Nov 2012 | 11:26 pm
I took this photo with my cell phone one morning when I turned on my Windows 7 machine. How many updates per day does that work out to Really? 84264 software updates? Why do people put up with crap ...
Linux bandwidth throttling 3 Oct 2012 | 09:35 pm
While doing a large file upload from my Ubuntu laptop, my internet connection was unusable from other machines at my house. I looked at the bandwith monitor on my router and saw that it was solidly up...
Replacing the domain name in a large file 1 Oct 2012 | 08:52 pm
I had a large text file (MySql database dump) with many instances of a domain name that I needed to change out for a website that’s being deployed under a new domain name. My first attempts to do a se...
Server move this weekend! 6 Aug 2012 | 12:51 am
Waiting to hear about the new name server IPs. I’ll update when I’ve put in the new ones.
Selecting rows in a paginated data grid 13 Jul 2012 | 12:02 am
When displaying sets of records on the web it’s a very common thing to include a checkbox on each row to allow users to select rows for things like, deleting multiple records, moving records from one ...
Hide changing content with JQuery UI 27 Jun 2012 | 11:07 am
While working on an ajax UI, I wanted to show that something was happening while preventing the user from interacting with page elements that are getting replaced. I used the .position() function from...
Updating Thunderbird on an older Ubuntu installation 11 Apr 2012 | 12:21 pm
I’m running Ubuntu 10.04LTS on my desktop at home and while there’s a year left on updates, my Thunderbird was telling me that it’s about to stop receiving security updates. While I typically don’t ca...
What roles do I have? 4 Apr 2012 | 03:34 pm
Ever wanted to know what Oracle roles your oracle user has? This simple query will offer up a complete list including the objects and privileges for each as specified in the role. Obviously it requir...
Canon 17-85 lens repair 2 Apr 2012 | 03:30 pm
While on vacation my Canon 17-85 IS USM lens started giving me Err01 messages. It turns out it was a cracked aperture control cable, a fairly common problem with this lens. I was able to locate a rep...
