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I have a Linux VPS account which I use for hosting this and some private photo collections [i.e. personal, not porn!] etc, I used to use Unisonto sync my photo directories between my Linux VPS and my Linux Laptop. I’m currently running Windows XP on my laptop, so I was looking for a way of syncing stuff with my off site storage again, after some playing around with different versions of Unison, I settled on running unison from withing Cygwin.

Joel Spolskyhas an excellent set of brief articles on management styles in IT (focused on software developement, but I believe the comments apply across the board for creative technology[1] roles) They are as follows: Introduction – Three Management Methods The Command and Control Management Method The Econ 101 Management Method The Identity Management Method Worth a read if your management or managed. I work with several ex-military people, where we have a mix of C�C and measurement…I’m still mulling over what that means 🙂

<p> <code>&lt;?php&lt;br /> require(‘wp-config.php’);<br /> header(‘Content-type: text/plain’);<br /> ?><br /> <MTEntries lastn=“999999”><br /> Redirect Permanent /archives/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<MTArchiveFile><br /> http://www.mccartney.ie/wordpress/&lt;$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/%d"$>/<?php echo sanitize_title("<$MTEntryTitle$>"); ?></MTEntries><p align="left"> This generates a file that us suitable for using as a <code>.htaccess</code> file, making Apache redirect requests for the old MT URIs to the new WordPress URIs. For the category links, I&#8217;ve just hand crafted the lines, I only had a couple of categories. </p> <p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"> (In writing this post, I&#8217;ve discovered some of the problems with quoting PHP in a PHP based system, so I&#8217;ve started to read <a href="http://codex.

On the 15th July I jumped on a place (well, two planes, and jumped is hardly right, as easyJet stung me an extra £40 for being over weight1) and headed to Durham, North Carolina, for a couple of months, work offered me an exciting opertunity, and after some discussions with my wife, we took it, she joined me here a week later. Her work has been good enough to let her take some extended leave so she can spend the time with me out here, she joind me out here a week later.

Buttons! I have some server based rules & spam training, so I need to drop any spam that hasn’t been caught in a specific folder, so that a it will get picked up by the server as spam and used to train the spam filter, the simplest way I’ve found of doing this in Thunderbird is using Buttons! to have a couple of shortcut folders on my toolbar, not quite as slick as a macro in mutt 🙂 Enigmail

A good friend of mine, AlanP, sent me this link: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Oct05.5Flaws.html, which is an interesting discussion design flaws in Windows 2000/XP that aren’t in Mac OSX.

select a.TABLESPACE_NAME, a.BYTES bytes_used, b.BYTES bytes_free, b.largest, round(((a.BYTES-b.BYTES)/a.BYTES)*100,2) percent_used from ( select TABLESPACE_NAME, sum(BYTES) BYTES from dba_data_files group by TABLESPACE_NAME ) a, ( select TABLESPACE_NAME, sum(BYTES) BYTES , max(BYTES) largest from dba_free_space group by TABLESPACE_NAME ) b where a.TABLESPACE_NAME=b.TABLESPACE_NAME order by ((a.BYTES-b.BYTES)/a.BYTES) desc; Produces something like this: <td> BYTES_USED </td> <td> BYTES_FREE </td> <td> LARGEST </td> <td> PERCENT_USED </td> <td> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- </td> <td> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- </td> <td> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- </td> <td> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; </td> <td> 241172480 </td> <td> 10289152 </td> <td> 9371648 </td> <td> 95.

http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7567

Every now � then I’m forced to deal with databases in Access, the worst case of this is when the database started life in something else, ‘cos that when Dates usually get really screwy. I recently had one with dates stored as 3 seperate fileds, I know I should have transformed the data, but I didn’t, so I came up witha few queries that tried to munge the data into something usable, my first attempt was this:

If you use firefox, you need Tab Mix Plus. The site is here, and you can install it from here. I used to use Session Saver .2 & some japanese fellow’s Tabbed Browsing Extensions, but this does it all, it’s much slicker & I’m very happy 🙂 Update: 14th July 2006 I’m considering adding Bookmarks Synchronizer 3 to this list..