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  • Old computers at Dallas Children’s Museum

    We went to Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for my son’s spring break. My brother’s family just moved there recently. With everybody being new to the area, I didn’t know which place to visit for some fun. Naturally, I started looking for Children’s museums. Some web search revealed there is a place called Dallas…

    April 23, 2006
  • Ji Village will get running water soon

    I talked to my mom today. She told me that my hometown, the Ji Village, will have running water soon. Isn’t that amazing? When I was growing up, my hometown was your typical Chinese village: no paved road, no electricity, no tv, no cars, even tractors were rare. In fact, if for whatever reason, a…

    April 22, 2006
  • All books were sent out

    I decided to gave away the extra copies of my book. In the US, I sent 2 copies to Ohio, one each to Florida and Texas. Overseas, I sent 2 copies to India, and one copy to Australia. I had tea/coffee with a reader in the Chicago area and hand-delivered a copy to her. In…

    April 19, 2006
  • Fixing remote connection problem for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

    Today I played with a server setup a few months ago but has since been neglected. It has Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on it. I got the following error when trying to connect to it using sqlcmd integrated authentication from my workstation: C:\>sqlcmd -S MyServer HResult 0x35, Level 16, State 1 Named Pipes…

    April 19, 2006
  • Setting sqlcmd environment variables

    In this post, I talked about how you can set your default editor for sqlcmd. At the end of that post, I asked how to make that variable persist. To do that, you can create an environment variable. For example, you can create an environment variable called sqlcmdeditor, and give it the value of your…

    April 17, 2006
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