Comments for Ken's Techno Tidbits

Comment on New power supplies sometimes don’t work with old MacBooks by ufbacc

ufbacc — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:06:37 +0000

Thank you! I couldn’t find this info from apple either. I had lost my original apple charger, and couldn’t get a single other charger to work properly until I did this. Life saver!

Comment on Merging in a GitHub fork by Dave Coleman

Dave Coleman — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:03:50 +0000

Thanks, worked great!

Comment on Emmett isn’t a mutt, he’s a lurcher! by Kata's Cuckoo's

Kata's Cuckoo's — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:43:43 +0000

That’s sad. Our sheepdog is like that too. He is not a big fan of other dogs. Anyways, it’s nice to see another Lulu out there!

Comment on Emmett isn’t a mutt, he’s a lurcher! by kkrugler

kkrugler — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:50:02 +0000

Hi Kata,

Emmett is all about the ball – it’s the lab retriever in him. So there’s a lot of chuck-it action with tennis balls.

And occasional hikes in the hills and mountains around where we live.

Unfortunately we got Emmett a bit too late to socialize him, so he can be very aggressive with other dogs, which makes outings tricky to plan.

Comment on Emmett isn’t a mutt, he’s a lurcher! by Kata's Cuckoo's

Kata's Cuckoo's — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:45:02 +0000

Hi Ken and Emmett!
I was shocked to find out that my Lumpi (or Lulu as we call him) is a lurcher! Thanks to you! We always thought he was a lab/greyhound mix but never even thought he could be something else. Your Emmett looks just like our Lumpi (who was also adopted in 2005! but in SC.). Here is a link to my website if you’d like to see more pictures and videos of him. http://cavecanis.com/videos.aspx
What are the activities that you do with him? Agility, hunting, etc.?

Kata

Comment on Performance problems with vertical/focused web crawling by mafri.ws

mafri.ws — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:05:01 +0000

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Comment on Local mines near Nevada City by kkrugler

kkrugler — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:25:16 +0000

Sorry, that’s a new one for me.

Comment on Local mines near Nevada City by pete keim

pete keim — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:12:20 +0000

was wondering if you have ever heard of the thornton & potter mine?—-thanks

Comment on Interesting dates in computer programming by Steve Yerow

Steve Yerow — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:52:30 +0000

The syntax of MUMPS (M), which I used extensively for 20+ years, allows easy date/time storage and calculations. I came here looking for an easy way to calculate days since a start point in SQL – without any time considerations – and found myself longing for the MUMPS format.

Haven’t programmed for about 15 years now, so I’m sure it’s easier than I’m making it… but if you know an algorithm to compute ‘days since Jan 01, 2011′ that will work for the next 10+ years, email me, please. I’m too lazy these days. Missing MUMPS !

Comment on Merging in a GitHub fork by kkrugler

kkrugler — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:19:08 +0000

Hi Sorcix,

You’re right, and Willem also updated notes on his page about this shortcut. He includes info how to switch to the remote branch for testing, which is handy. Specifically:

% git remote add chris git://github.com/cwensel/bixo.git
% git fetch chris
% git checkout chris/master

Now test Chris’s modifications

% git checkout master
% git merge chris/master