The IOC decided not to grant sailing an 11th medal for the 2012 Olympic Games. This means that there will be no catamaran in the 2012 Olympic Games.
These people should watch the news, they will then find out how cool multi-hulls are. Look at the pictures of Alinghi from my friend Claude. Take a seat [...]
I’m no big fan of commercial database product. Oracle is a complicated beast, and I have never completely understood why big companies use such a complicated and expensive product to store small databases. A DBA friend of mine said that 90% of the databases he has seen in the last 10 years could be done [...]
From a big company like Swisscom, you would expect a stable web site. Sadly, they use Windows and the dreadful dotNET to deliver their content, so the uptime is not what it used to be. But as they once said “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”.
My NAD 3150 (cheaply bought 5 years ago from an auction site) was scratching when adjusting the volume and balance control, sometimes loosing output completely. I have unsoldered and dismounted the control, cleaned it with a contact spray and compressed air, then resoldered it. It now sounds much better, will see if this fix will [...]
I needed to find and collect all log files of a product, but I wanted to keep the directory structure they where in, so find wasn’t really the solution. Our rsync friend does the job much better :
rsync -avm –include=*/ –include=*.log –exclude=* /opt/product .
all log files under /opt/product will be collected locally, with their containing [...]