A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Interesting post over at the Flare blog, where they had to delete over 900 million records from a MySQL table. They couldn’t simply run a DELETE FROM table query, as that would lock it: When a deletion query using a WHERE clause starts, it will lock that table. All other queries that are run against …
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If you have a toddler running around, Little Fingers by Shaun Inman – who created it for his own need – will come in handy. Little fingers want to explore. Press Shift + Control + Option + Command + L to lock down your Keyboard, Trackpad, Touch Bar, and/or Mouse. Press it again to unlock. …
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My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to “axlfkaj”. So, I wrote AlphaBaby [which] lets even infants and toddlers have fun playing with the computer: Every time a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked, a letter or shape is drawn [on …