SQL Key Columns and Tables

by Marshall on May 28, 2004

Have you ever needed a list of the foriegn keys of a table but didn’t want to parse out the contents of sp_help? Well I did and here is what I came up with create proc sp_GetKeysForTable@objname varchar(100)asselect @objname ForiegnKeyTable, (…)

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Cellular automata and Music

by Marshall on May 20, 2004

IBM has a cool article about using Java and cellular automata to create music.

updateyourcomputer.com

by Marshall on May 13, 2004

I just registered the domain http://www.updateyourcomputer.com. I plan on creating a web site devoted to helping people keep their computers up tp date with security patches and virus updates.

Ximian Connector GPL’d

by Marshall on May 12, 2004

Novell announced today that they have released Ximian’s Connector, a program that allows linux to interact with Microsoft’s Exchange server, under the GPL. Here is the Press Release Last night I watched an inde film on PBS called Refugee. It (…)

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PPC Emulator for x86

by Marshall on May 10, 2004

PearPC is “an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems”. It is released unter the GPL too. Unfortunately Due to the nature of emulation, PearPC is quite slow (the client will run about 500 times (…)

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Linux taking over the world

by Marshall on May 10, 2004

OSNews has an interview with Miguel de Icaza which discusses how the “Rest of the World to Eventually Force US Into Linux”

Upgraded to 1.0.2

by Marshall on May 4, 2004

Just got done upgrading to wordpress version 1.0.2. The admin interface is a lot nicer. During the upgrade I found this backup script which I think should be included in the default install. The upgrade did not solve my <pre> (…)

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