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 »
Finding a quick PHP function for date difference was painful. Now that I found it, here’s the quick easy way. This site was a great help: http://www.phpf1.com/tutorial/php-date-difference.html
Finding a quick PHP function for date difference was painful. Now that I found it, here’s the quick easy way. This site was a great help: http://www.phpf1.com/tutorial/php-date-difference.html
In an effort to get myself out of cloud storage and retain my privacy, I have decided to move my digital life back onto a flash drive. My problem is that I don’t want to pay for it. My goal? Get a nice flash drive without touching my everyday budget.
There is some controversy about using cursors in TSQL. Overall, I believe they tend to tie up resources and are seen as bad. So how do you get around using them? Here’s how.
This is a new venture for me. Although this won’t be a very in depth of all the possibilities of Gmail scripting, it will give a quick example of what’s possible.
Having trouble getting your techless friends on board with PGP/GPG encrypting emails to you? You’re not alone. That’s why I have created a nifty solution, just for you. And everyone else like you. Cryptana.com is where you go to get signed up. With this site, your public PGP/GPG encryption key is stored once, and anyone can… Read More »
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.
(If you want to AVOID cursors, see: TSQL – Loop Through Result Set WITHOUT Cursors) This is the basic query text to use whenever you need to loop through a result set in SQL Server using TSQL. In this example we are getting every database name and printing it out.