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Sad sign of an era forever gone.

TechCrunch: Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities.OS News: Yahoo finally pulls the plug on Geocities

I love treating primitives as objects #ruby

 Ruby |  copy code |? 01#script to generate a .csv testing results file02puts "Day,User ID,Action,Start Time,End Time"03(1..28).each{ |day|04 puts "#{day},system,1. Load Step,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss"05 puts "#{day},system,1a. Raw Data Load,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss"06 puts "#{day},system,1b. Cube Build,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss"07 (1..8).each { |user|08 (1..15).each { |report|09 puts "#{day},#{user},2. Report #{report},hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss"10 }11 }12 (1..5).each { |user|13 puts "#{day},#{user},3. Query,hh:mm:ss,hh:mm:ss"14 }15}

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 rushIf you’re running windows and have Ruby installed, go to Start->Ruby-{version}->RubyGems->RubyGems Package manager and type in “gem install rush” [...]

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 CD [...]

Term/Acronym dust-off

KPI for Key Performance IndicatorROLAP – Relational Online Analytical Processing.ROLAP tools access the data in a relational databaseand generate SQL queries to calculate information at the appropriate level when an end user requests it.OLTP, OLAPMultidimensional OLAP, or MOLAP:Multidimensional structure is defined as “a variation of the relational model that uses multidimensional structures to organize data [...]