MySQL a real DBMS?
by Marshall on March 31, 2005
Looks like it! There is a beta version out which supports stored procedures, views, metadata, and triggers. Each article has a link at the bottom of the page to larger PDF documents.
Bash Completion
by Marshall on March 30, 2005
One of the coolest things that I ever found out when learning Unix/Linux was tab completion in bash. It made typing long path names easier and you didn’t need to know the exact path that you wanted to go to. (…)
$2.39 a gallon
by Marshall on March 29, 2005
Gas in Wisconsin has risen about $0.60 a gallon this year and now stands at $2.39 (that is less then $0.10 cheaper then Los Angeles according to www.gaspricewatch.com). Starting on April 1, the Wisconsin gas tax will rise to 29.9 (…)
The Drought Is Broken
by Marshall on March 26, 2005
Apparently NW Washington was in a drought emergency, that was, until today. The forecast is for rain for the next week. Today I drove from Port Angeles, through Olympic National Park, stopped at the Pacific ocean, and drove around Hwy (…)
Let It Rain
by Marshall on March 26, 2005
Well, I woke up at 6 AM this morning to get an early start on things. It is raining, what a surprise, but when I turned on the weather channel, they say that a low in the Pacific will be (…)
You are getting verrry sleepy
by Marshall on March 25, 2005
So it is 6:10 PM Pacific time and I have been up since effectively 1 AM Pacific. My rescheduled flight turned out pretty good. After a quick trip to Detriot, I found out that I was flying First Class from (…)
The Saga Continues…
by Marshall on March 23, 2005
Well, Northwest Airlines kept bumping me back in the On-Call list, so I cancelled my flight today and rescheduled it for Friday morning. I also bumped back my return flight from Sunday until Tuesday, so my trip will be the (…)