I noticed something that was irritating me this morning. The screen would go black after I chose to install CentOS 7 on VirtualBox. What you can do is choose Troubleshooting in the startup of the installer. Then choose Basic graphical install, this seems to get around the problem.
Hope this helps somebody!
I have not posted on my blog in a while but given that this is fitting is oddly fitting. As I am writing this my grandfather is moments away from passing. He has been very influential in my life; he was the one who first introduced me to fixing computers in the early 1990’s. He started my spark of curiosity of technology. For those of you who know me well, know I am obsessed with learning and using technology.
He also was always excited about fixing things and tinkering. He was an avid craftsman, and built many pieces of furniture. By trade he programmed/ran/maintained CNC mills and he was the best in his company at it.
I’ve had a missed opportunity, so many times I could have thanked him for all the inspiration and knowledge he imparted on me.
He is too far gone for me to say my final farewell, his breathing very faint and sporadic. So this post has to suffice. A parting note, please take a moment and thank the people in your life who have inspired you. They are few and far in between.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we don’t use unique constraints or primary keys…
Using some clever rules about deleting from a view (also applies to a common table expression). You can delete from a view if the view only references one table.
WITH cte(b, r)
AS (SELECT Field1,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY Field1 ORDER BY Field1)
FROM dbo.Table1
WHERE Field1 IN (SELECT Field1
FROM dbo.Table1
GROUP BY Field1
HAVING COUNT(*)>1))
DELETE FROM cte WHERE r > 1;
Part of the trick is to use Row_Number to make a distinction between the rows. You can then delete anything that has a row number greater than 1 (a dupe)
I stumbled across this article from one of my LinkedIn friends, Threads in C#
It answered one of my questions about thread pooling in a very concise, easy to understand fashion. It is a short article, but he then goes into the Task Parallel Library, something that I really enjoy.
If you are asking why should I care about this, I use the magic of Async/Await. These are the fundamental technologies and techniques that they are built upon.
Keep in mind that not many people are experts in highly concurrent systems, I am not one of them either. But hopefully by reading this article we will all be a little better in how we implement parallelism/concurrency.
Cheers!
Chances are if you are reading this, you are a software developer. Relax, I am one too, as well as a database administrator. I spend a lot of time helping people to write code that is efficient or get the right results. I want to share this post on SQL Database Tuning http://www.toptal.com/sql/sql-database-tuning-for-developers by Rodrigo Koch. It provides some really good advice, especially for beginners in the area.
Really hits the nail on the head though, keep it minimalistic. Only return what you need, it takes more time on the server and then the data has to go over the network. He goes into some detail of how to troubleshoot slow queries and when to create indexes
An Introduction to Mocking in Python by Naftuli Tzvi Kay
This article is very insightful for covering mocking in Python. In case you don’t know mocking is a technique for testing where you don’t want to use a particular object or set of objects. For example, you might want to simulate database functionality while you are writing your test cases.
Hope you all find this useful, have a great day!
If you are using FIPS, your ClickOnce applications might not work. I ran into this bug running BookSmarts, an application I wrote. Turned FIPS on and started receiving errors.
The issue is that enabling FIPS makes the mechanism that verifies the validity of ClickOnce applications fail every time.
The article, a very long one, can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/811833
Just keep this in mind if you are trying to support someone who is the odd ball out.
Note: Enabling/Disabling FIPS in Windows is done through the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy\Enabled (DWORD)
1 is on, 0 is off
When changing this setting, it’s necessary to reboot the computer.
This is a decent post I put out there about Chrome on my businesses website but I figured all you WordPressers out there would enjoy skimming it too. I am going to make a series of these since people like them! More to come.
http://www.getbooksmarts.com/tips-tricks
-and-news/google-chrome-productivity-tips-tricks
Are you using more than one browser to surf the web? If you are, you are not alone, according to market research the number is rising. Why? Some websites simply perform better on one browser than the others. No one browser is a clear winner on every website.
The reason being is software developers design and test websites more with the browser they prefer. This results in less thorough optimization with other browsers. Some websites just simply will not work on all browsers.
The result is having to remember which site works best on a particular browser, this can cause pain (just like trying to remember all of your passwords). Why do this to yourself?
The solution is to have a smart application do it for you with a minimum effort. BookSmarts imports your favorites and bookmarks from the browsers you use, and remembers to which browser they belong.
Just remember, it’s okay to use more than one browser.
How are you?
What are you doing?
When was the last time you seriously thought about that? Take a minute to think about that. If you are doing good, it feels great. If not, maybe you are ready for change.
Take a look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
At the base, these are basic things everyone needs, as you go up the pyramid, they are less necessary (but they do add to happiness. Now say you have one of those bottom items – physiological or safety – gets taken away, what happens? Well, everything above it quickly goes away.
What can you do? You have to rebuild your pyramid. Lee Iacocca once said “The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being”. There is unconventional wisdom in this. Sometimes your perception of a situation is wrong, especially when you take some time and help someone who needs your help.
If you are truly convinced that is not the issue, replace what is causing your issue. So how do you do that? When do you do that? These are tough questions.
For me, anytime I have made a large change, I was scared and excited. I CHOSE to just be excited. The fear is a good thing, it keeps you on your toes, so you will succeed in what you do.
When do you make that change? I would say, when fear of the unknown is outweighed by the problem you are facing.
Here is a great podcast worth listening to on the subject.
The bottom line, take care of yourself. For every bad situation, there is a positive one to replace it.
