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I’ve just discovered that my auntie has a blog! It’s part of the website for their B&B, Carno House, how cool is that! Great work Auntie Hilda!

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It’s just one of those tools you can’t live with out.

Here is a list of some of the most frequently used SQL*Plus commands: • ACCEPT – Get input from the user • DEFINE – Declare a variable (short: DEF) • DESCRIBE – Lists the attributes of tables and other objects (short: DESC) • EDIT – Places you in an editor so you can edit a SQL command (short: ED) • EXIT or QUIT – Disconnect from the database and terminate SQL*Plus

Book a date in your diaries folks, if you’re in Belfast, or can get to Belfast on the 16th March, you now have somewhere to be: foss means business, big thanks to Ciaran O’Riordan & co for setting this up. Others have also blogged on this, so here’s some linkage to help google 🙂 DW, Paul Gregg, Indymedia Ireland, Bagel Belly Blog, eWeek

I have an old laptop (PII-400Mhz, 196Mb RAM, it’s small & light, which is why I still keep it around), it used to run Debian Woody just fine, I wiped it recently and dropped Debian Sarge on to it, it just seemed sluggish, I reckoned it couldn’t cope with all the new graphical schmuck in the new GNOME release. One of the things I liked about Sawfish/Sawmill was the pack window feature, I can be quite keyboard orientated and liked to be able to bounce windows round without have to jump for the mouse.

I was watching CSI last night, the song they opened & closed the show was quite cool and hit my current mood spot on (sound wise, not quite lyric wise..), so I did some googling & discovered that it was a cover of a Tears for Fears song, Mad World, the cover was by Gary Jules, you can hear & see it here.

Why why why can’t you burn ISO images without having to BUY tools…well, you don’t, if you know where to look [ http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/v2.htm][1] Update: 2007/12/04 I needed to burn a DVD ISO today, and ISORECORDER doesn’t do this, so I had a quick search, and there are a few options: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ http://www.imgburn.com/

My dad has a Dell Inspiron 6000, which I use every now and then, one of the things that has really bugged me about it jaggy images in IE (they are being scaled or something), I did some poking about today (we’re are babysitting at there house..) and found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp I found it here: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=79808 He had is DPI set to 120.

FOR THE WIFE WHO SAYS IT’S HOT DOGS TONIGHT, BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME, AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. FOR THE HUSBAND WHO IS ON THE SOFA BEING A COUCH POTATO, BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS. FOR THE TEENAGER WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME, NOT ON THE STREETS. FOR THE TAXES I PAY

I’m a multi-window kinda guy, in GNOME you can have it raise the window when cycling throught them alt-tab style, Windows XP doesn’t do this, so when you’ve loads of windows from the same app open (say IE windows for OWA), it can be a pain finding the right window. Apple’s Mac OS X has a neat feature called expose which shows you all your windows at a glance at the press of a button, allowing you to select the one you want.