Here’s some background; I have a VPS that was giving a “Killed” message before any Yum command could finish Some sample output is below Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * epel: mirrors.mit.edu * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * updates: mirror.atlanticmetro.net debug | 2.5 kB 00:00 debug/primary_db | 1.2 MB 00:00 […]
Excuse the misleading title. I am trying to reap that sweet sweet SEO. This actually applies to any UTF8 character entered into Putty, and it is a Putty setting, not a Linux setting. Pretty much everything that accepts input and built within the past several years will already use UTF8, so that isn’t the issue. […]
So, you have yourself a netbook or some equally underpowered laptop with an Intel Atom processor, and you are finding your computer getting stuck with a message reading like Intel(r) PineView PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOSBuild Number:1818 PC 14.34 06/19/2009 01:29:40DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIBITEDCopyright (C) 2000-2003 Intel Corp. All Rights Reserved.“ when trying to install Linux. […]
I was dead-set on making a sandwich for dinner tonight, but ending up burning the last two pieces of bread while toasting them because I was engrossed by a video about a salt mine and lost track of time. The resulting carbon wafers went into the trash. All of the sandwich ingredients were already laid […]
My lovely fascination with North Korea has been dwindling lately. Every news article follows the same pattern of addressing a current situation, reminding Americans that North Korea is a nuclear state, including the term “bellicose rhetoric”, and generally closing with “North Korea and South Korea are still technical at war, as hostilities only ended in […]
Man….why is it that every time I stop using PostgreSQL for more than a month I immediately forget how to list tables and columns? Here’s a listing for posterity. Show Databases MySQL: SHOW DATABASES; PostgreSQL \l Show Tables MySQL: SHOW TABLES; PostgreSQL \d Show Columns MySQL: SHOW COLUMNS; PostgreSQL \d+ tablename Show Yourself Out (exit) […]
The Raspberry Pi has two video outputs, an HDMI output and some stanky old component composite video output that you would expect to see on the back of an old VCR. Using the HDMI output on a newer LCD screen will result in an amazingly crisp image that is quite impossible to read unless you […]
The Raspberry Pi was released in February after a development period where it was touted as being an affordable computer for schoolchildren, and immediately sold out to a horde of greedy neckbeards. The two companies doing the manufacturing are still making batch after batch to sell to all of the people who backordered it, myself […]
VB.NET and creating dropdown menus are perhaps the two most annoying aspects of the .NET framework, and a close third is trying to track down .NET information that isn’t written in C# or populated with database queries. What if you want an incredibly simple representation of an HTML dropdown menu that is handled through Razor’s […]
I find myself needing to output CSV from database queries a lot, and like an Alzheimer’s patient I am constantly forgetting how to do it. Here’s the quick run-down on how you get queries from your database into a CSV file. Postgres \f ‘,’ \a \t \o /tmp/output.csv SELECT column_id, column_name FROM table_name; \o \q […]