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Drawing Swedish flag with Logo
After our last experiment, we drew a Swedish flag with Logo. Major code improvement: 1. Introduction of variable for flag size; 2. Using the direction keyword instead of turnright and turnleft to make it less ambiguous to the code reader. Here is the final product: Here is the code for it. # Begin logo code […]
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HP dv6253cl laptop fixed
It took me a while to fix the wireless problem on my HP dv6253cl. As documented here, I tried various ways to make the wireless card work on this laptop, to no avail. I tried 3 different distros: Sabayon 3.4, Ubuntu 7.1, and Kubuntu 7.1, with different Broadcomm driver combinations I found at ndiswrapper’s wiki […]
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Migrating from one RDBMS to another
Here is some of my thoughts on migrating MySQL to Sql Server. It came out of an email discussion. I’d love to hear your thoughts on migrating to a different database platform, not just MySQL to Sql Server. I actually thought about writing a white paper or even a course on migrating from MySQL to […]
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Logo programming fun
My son had the idea, and I just implemented it in Logo. It’s been really fun. We learned typing, math, geometry, and all that together without even knowing it. We did it on Ubuntu with KTurtle. By the way, it looks KTurtle’s Logo implementation is not consistent with documentations found in other sites. The next […]
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VMWare Converter and VMWare Server fun
I am playing with VMWare Converter and VMWare Server. Both are available for free. You do need to register to get the download link and serial numbers. Fake name, address, and email will do. VMWare Converter is pretty neat. It can suck the gut out of a physical machine, while it is running, and create […]