Great directors and actors

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Just a list for myself, because I keep forgetting names. Directors Darren Aronofski: Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler Christopher Nolan...

Oracle SQL Developer screen redraw glitch

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Perform the following steps to fix the redraw, or screen refresh, bug that can occur in Oracle SQL Developer when used on Windows Vista and ...
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Remove visual rings / circles from pen tablet in Windows 7

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When using a pen in stead of a mouse in Windows, rings or circles may appear when you click. This happens at least in Vista and Windows 7. I...
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Limited connectivity using wireless internet in Vista Home SP1

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I've had an issue with "limited connectivity" on my Vista Home SP1 installation. It is a laptop that connects wirelessly (WiFi...
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Simple way to read Excel or Access data in SQL Server

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-- list of available providers exec master..xp_enum_oledb_providers -- Three ways to read in Access data (file: c:\db1.mdb, tabel: TEST) ...

Converting WAV DTS to MP3

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A WAV DTS file contains a multi-channel encoded digital format called DTS and has .wav as extention. Playing such a file in Zoomplayer or Wi...
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Money pit on Oak Island

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Very bizarre story: http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/ I've put it here so I don't forget to check progress on t...
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Drupal Clean URL's with IIS7

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Drupal can work with clean URL's (or URL write). The most talked about solution is using Helicon's ISAPI _Rewrite ISAPI add-in, whic...
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Liger

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I saw a documentary today on National Geographic about the cross-breeding product of a tiger and lion. The hybrid is called a liger. I didn...

Fix upload of images in Drupal

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Solution to messages like warning: move_uploaded_file() [ function.move-uploaded-file ]: Unable to move 'c:\progra~1\php\upload_tmp\php5...

Install Windows Components from command-line

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If you want to start the add/remove Windows Components dialog without using the add/remove programs interface, then use the following comman...
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IE7 enable tabbed browsing

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You can enable tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7 by using a menu command: Tools -> Internet Options -> Tab: settings -> select...
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Dynamic transparent color

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The default value of most color properties is "Transparent". If you want to dynamically set a color property, you can use the IIF-...
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Truncate staging tables

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Before creating a backup of the database, you could clean out all staging tables to safe some space in the backup and to reduce the time it ...

Windows Update fix

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Sometimes Windows Update gets corrupted. Some of its components or previously downloaded updates get mangled during the download or installa...

Cannot decrypt the symmetric key...

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Yesterday I got a Windows update of my .Net framework 2.0. After the update the system needed to be rebooted, so I did that. After that, my ...
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Return the size of pre-selected tables

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A stored procedure I use a lot to get a resultset containing the size of a selection of tables in the database: CREATE procedure sp_TableSiz...

Backup to network share

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You can use the following TSQL statement to backup a database to a network share in SQL Server 2000: BACKUP DATABASE TO DISK = '\\unc\fo...

Concatenating text files

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Jamie Thomson has a post on concatenating multiple text files (using the ForEach Loop) and subsequently loading this concatenated file in on...
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Strange HAVING-clause behaviour

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Say you want to return a resultset containing the last two days per week. First, construct the demo table: CREATE TABLE TEST_TIME (WEEKCODE ...