This script searches every file in a directory for a particular string and replaces it with another value. get-childItem | ForEach { (Get-Content $_ | ForEach {$_ -replace “OLDVALUE,”NEWVALUE”}) | Set-Content $_}
A script that generates a script to fix all orphaned users at once.
How to get your database out of the “restoring” state so you can use it again.
This short block of PHP code takes a SQL script and removes the “dash-dash” and “/**/” comments from it. Of course, many languages, including PHP itself, use the “/**/” comment style so this could apply to PHP scripts, as well. The line that removes the dash-dash style comments could easily be changed to the “//”… Read More »
Having to sift through a large directory to get the latest file can be tedious. Surprisingly, I’ve needed this twice in the past month, so I figured I should post it. I hope this helps someone.
CamScanner is a free Android app that takes photos of documents, automatically crops the photo, enhances the photo, saves it, categorizes it, tags it, converts it to PDF, and uploads it to your cloud. And CamScanner does it well. The quality is as good as (or better than) a normal scanner. Here is a sample… Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss most of a lawsuit against Google Inc over allegations the company improperly scanned the content of customers’ emails in order to place ads. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California ruled that the proposed class action lawsuit against Google can proceed.… Read More »
Do transactions apply in dynamic SQL, in SQL Server? In a word, yes. For proof, run the following chunks of code:
Electronic “government”* spying has been occurring for decades. Recently, it has become a hot-topic because of Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing. The news of this, however, is not a new thing. There has been warrantless wiretapping, NSA spying, and all sorts of communications databasing happening since W. Bush was the ostensible “leader” of the land-of-the-free, and before.
Occasionally, while “surfing the web”, I get this annoying error message. It comes up for Facebook, Google, and today, Vimeo. The error message looks something like this: Invalid URL The requested URL “/video/67664300”, is invalid. Reference #9.8cc21508.1251069229.0 There is no obvious reason or fix for this that I found, until today. This forum nailed it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372083… Read More »