TechCrunch: Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities. OS News: Yahoo finally pulls the plug on Geocities
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I love treating primitives as objects #ruby
#script to generate a .csv testing results file puts “Day,User ID,Action,Start Time,End Time” (1..28).each{ |day| puts “#{day},system,1. Load Step,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss” puts “#{day},system,1a. Raw Data Load,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss” puts “#{day},system,1b. Cube Build,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss” (1..8).each { |user| (1..15).each { |report| puts “#{day},#{user},2. Report #{report},hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss” } } (1..5).each { |user| puts “#{day},#{user},3. Query,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss” } }
History repeats itself, affiliate naughtiness and twitter spam
Looking at the updates to How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who’s Buying – ReadWriteWeb, it looks like all the “funding” for BeAMagpie is drying up. Box.net and StubHub have booted BeAMagpie from their affialiate programs, and I suspect the rest of the companies will too, once it gets on their PR radar [...]
rush: the ruby shell
rush. rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files – everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby. Install rush If you’re running windows and have Ruby installed, go to Start->Ruby-{version}->RubyGems->RubyGems Package manager and type in “gem [...]
Bookmark: 301 (etc…) Redirect Cheatsheet – mod_rewrite, javascript, cfm, perl, php, refresh, python
From the AskApache.com blog: Includes 301, 302, and 404 redirection methods. python, perl, http-equiv, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, ASP, CFM 301 Redirect Cheatsheet – mod_rewrite, javascript, cfm, perl, php, refresh, python. Also: smart HTTP and HTTPS .htaccess Rewrite .Force url to use SSL/https
10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions
10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions | LinuxHaxor.net. Distributions specifically built for certain applications… Scientific Security testing Educational Partitioning tool and disk imaging (parted magic/clonezilla — free clones of partition magic and ghost) Multimedia editing System rescue Gamers Religious (WARNING: one of the links under #9 may be NSFW) TV/PVR Some of these come in Live [...]
Term/Acronym dust-off
KPI for Key Performance Indicator ROLAP – Relational Online Analytical Processing. ROLAP tools access the data in a relational database and generate SQL queries to calculate information at the appropriate level when an end user requests it. OLTP, OLAP Multidimensional OLAP, or MOLAP: Multidimensional structure is defined as “a variation of the relational model that [...]
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