Archive for October, 2011
Accidentally truncated yout kaltura.entry table?
Fear not!, for you can rebuild it with this SQL statement:
INSERT INTO kaltura.entry (id, kshow_id, kuser_id, name, type, media_type, data,
thumbnail, views, votes, comments, favorites, total_rank, rank, tags, anonymous,
status, source, source_id, source_link, license_type, credit, length_in_msecs,
partner_id, group_id, int_id, subp_id, display_in_search, puser_id, plays,
permissions, partner_data, access_control_id, conversion_profile_id, categories,
categories_ids, created_at) SELECT de.entry_id, de.kshow_id, de.kuser_id, de.entry_name,
de.entry_type_id, de.entry_media_type_id, de.data, de.thumbnail, de.views, de.votes,
de.comments, [...]
Dennis Ritchie (1941—2011)
It’s been a bad year for computing, this one, as we’ve now lost the father of the C Programming Language.
It’s a sad thing to note that whilst Ritchie had as much, if not more, influence on the Computing Industry as Steve Jobs, he’ll only be remembered by a small number of people worldwide: Those of [...]
In other news…
I love the fact that this article points out that Labour is the most Fascist of the British political parties. xD
I really laughed when I saw that graph.
An amusing quote
Most people I know are aware of my total and utter devotion to Zend Framework and the wish that it will replace all other frameworks and render such abominations as Symfony and CakePHP irrelevant.
So, I giggled when I spotted this in the topic of freenode.net’s #zftalk-community channel earlier today:
<freen> Zend Framework is like a really [...]
From one idiot to another…
Almost as soon as I clicked ‘Publish’ on that last post, a friend linked me to this post on boingboing:
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/08/wipo-boss-the-web-would-have-been-better-if-it-was-patented-and-its-users-had-to-pay-license-fees.html
I can’t think of anything that would have been worse for the world than the guys at DARPA filing patents for the Internet.
Lightening the mood somewhat, this, Jen, is the Internet:
Steve Jobs
Well, I do feel kind of bad for leaving this so long, but I’ve revised this several times already before posting it, and it’ll probably get edited a bit after it does finally go live.
Steve Jobs was a visionary without whom the computer industry would not look anything like it does today. I’m willing to [...]
OSX output volume too quiet?
Boom!
It’s on the App Store, and it’s bloody genius.
I’ve gotten better results from the equiliser by putting it onto Loud mode, rather than just boosting the output volume, but it really does make up for all those bollocks videos on YouTube.