The Ji Village News

Author: Haidong Ji

  • Letter from Ahmadinejad to Bush

    The Council On Foreign Relations claimed that it has obtained a copy of the letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to US President George W. Bush. The link here points to a pdf file. It is not the official translation. I have to say that the quality of the translation is not very good. It…

  • Great Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts

    Update: Flickr changed its interface, so the scripts in step 2 and 3 no longer work. I will update this as I get more information. If you have Flickr account and use Firefox, I found 2 Greasemonkey scripts that are very helpful. They make photo editing so much more easier. They are both focused on…

  • Training wheels off for Benjamin

    The walking distance between our condominium and Benjamin’s school is about 700 meters. Because it is so close to school, the school bus does not serve our area. We could let him take the bus if we walk about 1 and half blocks south to the school bus stop, but we didn’t. Instead, I send…

  • Connect to a different database server within command line utility

    In sqlcmd, you can connect to a different server by this command: :connect MyServer The above command will attempt to use integrated / Windows Active Directory authentication. To use traditional Sql Server authentication, use this instead: :connect MyServer -U MyLogin You can do the same kind of thing in Oracle Sql Plus by using this…

  • Drop the empty schema first before you can remove its user

    A few weeks ago, I ran into an issue with a SQL Server 2005 database restored from a Sql Server 2000 backup file. I want to share how I resolved this, hopefully it will be helpful to somebody. You can restore a Sql Server 2000 database backup to a SQL Server 2005 server. When pages…