My tech posts have been a bit lacking of late, and though this one isn’t really much of a techy post it is a pretty geeky game. Instead of using a fancy visual interface this game is played through using sql statements. mysqlgame

The other day I was looking at my computer books and I wondered how many of them I have now. I counted them up and there are 23! That is crazy! And that is not even all that I have had because some of them have been trashed previously.  There is a lot of time

I have been using OS X since Novemberish 2007 and in that time I have found the following programs to be the most useful to me. Adium – General purpose chat client. Supports multiple protocols Deep Vacuum – Internet archiver and offline browser Firefox – The worlds best web browser Fugu – SFTP client EZ

I am always forgetting what numbers have what permissions, so I made myself a text file with the answer. I use it so much I figure I may as well share it with all of you. I hope you find it useful. These numbers will work on any Unix based operating system. This includes Linux

So let’s say your computer has more than one processor in it. I bet you would like to take advantage of that capability wouldn’t you? Especially when you are compiling something like openoffice.org (May as well shoot yourself in the foot while you’re at it!). So here is the dealio. All you need is a