Archive for August, 2006

Postgres on Ubuntu

August 31, 2006 | In: General

I was setting my computer up for a database systems class I'm taking this semester. I got to the point of getting PostgreSQL 8.1, pgAdmin III, and the JDBC drivers installed, but I couldn't figure out how to connect to the darn thing. I knew it...

I ran into a bit of a situation that was really blowing my mind. I have a rather large XML file (around 20,000+ lines) marked up in TEI that I wanted to do some transformations on (a day book and ledger from the 1850s). Essentially the code follows...

Getting XML from MSSQL Server

August 21, 2006 | In: General

I've been playing with all the AJAX stuff that's been coming out lately. I suppose that like a lot of folks, I was creating a query, then having a generic function that created the XML in a proxy file for the JavaScript (Ray Camden has a really nice...

I ran across this on Digg under the title How to Make Firefox Over 40% Faster. While the improvement actually has nothing to do with Firefox, it does cover how to improve the CPU scaling settings. Quick breakdown... Uninstall powernowd sudo...