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Stop junk mail, save the environment
Credit card companies are sending junk credit card application offerings now to my first grader. Just unbelievable. I used this site, https://www.optoutprescreen.com/opt_form.cgi, a few years ago to stop unwanted mail for myself. It did get rid of a lot of my junk mails, although not all of them. Overall, it made a big difference and…
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Learn Perl through Perl debugger
I attended an introductory Perl course recently. I’ve always wanted to learn the language. It is a very powerful scripting tool with excellent regular expression support. The training delivered by Daina Pettit from LearningTree was excellent. One nugget I got out of the class, that I think is worth half of the class cost, is…
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Some pictures taken on 20060702
Shanghai Nonstop: Duck at Shedd Aquarium, behind the glass wall: Benjamin and the duck:
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Messages when installing SP1 for Sql Server 2005
Service Pack 1 for Sql Server 2005 was released in April. I have installed it on quite a few systems: 32-bit, 64-bit, and 64-bit cluster. SP1 is cluster-aware, meaning that if you want to upgrade a cluster, the installation package can detect that and will apply the changes to all nodes. Of my installs, all…
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Upsizing Access Database to Sql Server 2005
One way to convert Access database to Sql Server database is through Access’ built-in Upsizing Wizard, accessible through Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard. It works both with Sql Server 2000 and Sql Server 2005. When upsizing, you are provided with basically 3 choices: converting Access database to a ADP project; converting all tables…