When she saw the snow, Mrs. B. said this morning that we were having a Christmas-Easter. I thought that was rather appropriate. At Christmas we rejoice that Jesus the King of Kings humbled Himself to come and die for our sins. Then at Easter we rejoice that He did die for our sins, but didn’t […]
Here are some pictures from my trip to Arizona. There was so many beautiful things to see, I am afraid my camera was not up to it. Sorry it is so blurry, but you can get a hint of the colors in the sunrise from this. The colors in the sunrise were very brilliant, unfortunately […]
I wanted to create a user who had just enough permissions to make a SQL dump of my database for backup purposes. I hunted all over the ‘net, but no one told what permissions were needed so by trial and error I found out: GRANT SELECT, LOCK TABLES ON *.* TO backup_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘xxx’; […]
Techcrunch is reporting on a special new email to hard copy system. The idea apparently is to allow people who do not have Internet access and are afraid of computers to receive emails. The problem with this system is that it is very limited and long term maintenance costs will be significant. It does not […]
I love Subversion, it keeps all my work in sync, lets me recover from a lot of big mistakes, and generally keeps my data safe. Getting it setup takes a lot of tweaking in many files though. I finally found a great reference for getting SVN setup in Ubuntu: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_subversion_websvn This covers all the major […]