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Connecting to Sql Server from Unix or Linux with FreeTDS
To connect to Sql Server from *nix environment, you can use JDBC (Java), Perl’s DBI and DBD packages, unixODBC, etc. You can also use another open source tool called FreeTDS. TDS stands for Tabular Data Stream. It is a protocol that defines how data is transmitted between computers. Both Sybase and Sql Server implement TDS.…
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教孩子中文的一些信息
我七岁的儿子上周开始读中文学校。尽管他刚成为二年级的学生，但他从中文一年级读起。他的情况比较特殊：我讲英语和汉语，而妈妈讲瑞典语和英语，所以我们在家里讲英语。儿子三岁时到一家日文学校读幼儿园和学前班。升入小学后，下午三点放学后每天还会到这家日文学校。之所以去日文学校，是因为当时在我家附近没有好的中文学校。 我想在他的年龄段，他的日文应当没问题。日文学校的一个好处是他接触了汉字的书写，并且字意也差不到哪里去。所以他在汉语书写上有少许基础。汉语口语方面，我们一起看过BBC的Muzzy中文视听教程，一起玩过WawaYaya的游戏软件，我随之引进更多的汉语说话。绝大多数情况下，他不会用汉语回应我们的对话，但他倒是可以听懂一些。他的汉语听力和口头表达能力是跟不上同龄的在家讲汉语的孩子的。我跟他讲汉语时还要讲究策略，否则只会造成孩子的反感和抵触。 中文学校是周末授课，每周只是两个小时。有家庭作业。学校用的是马立平为海外中文学校编写的教材。这个教材的几个特点是先直接识字，三四年级才学拼音和强调读字能力等。我们刚开始用这本教材，所以不好妄加评论。 无论如何，这儿是我搜集的一些链接。我的目的是抛砖引玉。希望能听到家长和读者的评论或电邮，以达到互相切磋、共同提高的效果。 山菊花的中文教材评论； 欣华中文的材料。
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Psychic connection
I pass this business every day on my way to work. It is on the south side of Roosevelt Road in Lombard, a suburb of Chicago. This actually reminds me that Raymond Chen, programming guru at Microsoft, is known for his psychic debugging skills. According to wikipedia, he is also known for pithy comments and…
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How do you get on your bike
Raymond Chen has an interesting post titled the cultural anthropology of getting on a bicycle. I left a comment there. It is fairly long so I decided to cross post it here. There were no children’s bike when I was growing up in rural China in the 70’s. Since bike was such a valued possession…
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View and kill processes in Linux and Solaris
On *nix system, the ps command is kind of like Windows task manager. It provides running processes information. Once you find the process ID, you can kill it using kill command. On Linux machines, you can type ps ux to list all your own running processes. The second column, PID, is Process Identifier. By looking…