March 2010
6 posts
OS X Geek Tip of the Day
When OS X Disk Utility tells you that your disk has “issues” and you must boot up from a system disk and run Disk Utility again, you can simply boot in single-user mode by holding down command-S during bootup and run `fsck -fy` at the command prompt. It does the same thing.
Now there’s no need to (a) look for your OS X install disk or (b) wait the 10 minutes for your system to...
“Never mind that real businesses track all of their data in SQL databases that...”
– You said it, Ted Dziuba!
Did you know that you can specify an IP address in your browser using a base other than base 10? For example, the following are all equivalent representations of 66.102.13.99 (one of Google’s IPs)
http://0x42.0x66.0x0d.0x63
http://0x42660d63
http://1113984355
http://00000102.00000146.00000015.00000143
From a post on Viruslist:
Now, by itself, this isn’t terribly interesting from a...
“Too many tables; MySQL can only use 61 tables in a join”
– AKA You’re Doing it Wrong
Huge CSV Data Exports in Rails
I’m a strong believer in data portability for software as a service applications. As a consumer, I never want to use a service that won’t let me get my data out. And as a provider, I’d much prefer to compete on features, quality, customer service, etc than on locking in customers. Additionally, it takes a lot of hubris to assume that your application can provide all the...