Dec 30, 2002
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released the results of its What the World Thinks in 2002 survey early this month, and it contains some interesting news for Canadians, particularly in view … Read more
Dec 30, 2002
Without fanfare I upgraded my RSS feed to RSS 2.0 last week. Admittedly my simple feed was already compliant to 2.0, and all I really added was a to each item via the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, which I later removed. I have since downgraded back to RSS 0.91 as … Read more
Dec 29, 2002
I just don’t want to ruin it by making it a Hollywood thing, like an orchid heist movie or something, changing the orchids into poppies and turning it into a movie about drug running. Why can’t there be a movie simply about flowers? It’s like I don’t want to cram in sex or guns or … Read more
Dec 27, 2002
The CBC has an interesting article about the use of the word mulatto in the media. The article, which goes on to tackle other words with shady and not-so-shady pasts, is in response to a letter the CBC received after its use of mulatto in Read more
Dec 27, 2002
Metro Morning, the CBC‘s Toronto morning show, had a piece about British singer and songwriter Billy Bragg on today’s show. Bragg has had a track out called Price of Oil for the past month or so, a song which Errol Nazareth claims is one of the first to speak out against the … Read more
These instructions to install Ubuntu on a USB stick include the following on how to convert ISO to .img on a Mac:
“Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g., hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/kubuntu.iso) Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file … Read more
“Making the rounds and causing quite a buzz is Noktor’s new HyperPrime 50mm lens, with a maximum aperture of f/0.95. This astoundingly fast lens renders pictures (and video) with a unique aesthetic, a sort of dream-like mood where night becomes day. In fact, the lens exceeds the perception of the human eye in low-light situations … Read more
MySQL defaults to case-insensitive string comparison. SqlAlchemy does not do anything to mask this behaviour, and rightly so. This SqlAlchemy bug contains the reasoning as well as links to articles on how to configure MySQL tables and columns to use case-sensitive comparisons.
When defining a column or a table in MySQL, you can specify the … Read more
Man, those driving test administrators are hard-asses.
“The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms … Read more