Archive for January, 2009

Because I’m a Geek

January 25, 2009 | In: General

Saw this shirt and it made me laugh. Then I got out a pencil (because I'm a geek) and solved it :) [pmath] y = int{10}{13}{dx}(2x) [/pmath] Who say's math majors can't be funny!

rdesktop and Tcl/tk

January 16, 2009 | In: General, Systems Admin

This is something I did a few years ago and has been very useful. I'm a *nix admin that occasionally needs to log on to a Windows server. I used rdesktop for a long time to do this. I wanted, though, a nice GUI that would allow me to pick which server I...

Back in the day, I used to work on the Mycroft Project. At the time, only Firefox/Netscape could actually used these plugins as they were based on Apple's Sherlock specification (Mycroft is Sherlock Holmes' brother, btw). These plugins have been a staple...

I've been going through a bunch of old stuff I've written as I clean up things. There will be a rash of posts where I take code I've written in different projects to see how things work and that are potentially useful, just no implemented in anything that...

What Is a Database?

January 6, 2009 | In: General

After working on a couple of different projects over the years that lent themselves to using a database, it seems a lot of people have some misconceptions of what exactly a database is...or what it does. Many have confused data stores and databases (when...