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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
SQLEditor 1.3b9 Released
I just made the latest version of SQLEditor (1.3b9) available on the website for download [2.8MB dmg]. The new version has a collection of improvements. Particularly in stability. Chris submitted a test case which broke the parser and the save … Continue reading
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MalcolmHardie Solutions Weblog
About the new MalcolmHardie Solutions weblog. The new weblog will contain posts about SQLEditor and other products. If you already reading Angus Thinks you probably don’t need to read the MalcolmHardie weblog as well because all the posts on the … Continue reading
static link library to replace dylib in mac os x
This post on the xcode-users list explains a neat trick on how to get xcode to link a static library instead of a dynamic library. Imagine the circumstance: you want to use a particular non-standard version of a native library … Continue reading
New Bujold book
The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold [Amazon] is coming out this week hopefully. (My order’s already in with Amazon) The good news is that there are now some sample chapters up. Bujold of course is better known for the … Continue reading
Cocaine Production
Interesting video that I found via [Magistrate’s Blog] showing cocaine processing in Columbia. The quantity of different (mostly toxic) chemicals going into the product was the most interesting thing, although I was also interested by the running chemistry lesson from … Continue reading
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Weighing electronics at airports?
I was looking at a BBC news article about the recent security alerts at airports when a thought occurred to me. One of the big challenges with electronic items is to ensure that they have not been modified to contain … Continue reading
Britain, America and WW2
The Guardian has an interesting article detailing apparent attempts by the British government to get America to join WW2. These apparently included an astrologer who made dire predictions about Hitler, a fake radio station and a campaign against Nazi groups … Continue reading
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Abolish the “Three Rs”
Why is it that whenever anyone seems to talk about education they always seem to use the phrase “Three Rs”. This particuarly stupid phrase seems to appear in every article about basic education. I think the very stupidity of this … Continue reading
Sony Batteries
It looks like at least 4 million Dell notebook batteries are being recalled, all of which appear to be made by Sony. Worse news though, Sony also supply batteries to other companies thought to include Apple, Lenovo and HP. If … Continue reading
Customer Service in reverse?
Interesting article in the Observer today which finally manages to pin down what I’ve been noticing but couldn’t quite bring together into a clear idea. Many companies are so bad at customer service that people are going around discouraging their … Continue reading
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Online Shopping customer service
We contacted online retailers asking why they don’t respond to queries, but they didn’t respond to our queries. [The Register Article]
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SF publisher Jim Baen passed away
I read today that Jim Baen of Baen books fame has passed away. I think I have more Baen SF books on my shelf than any other single publisher and to a great extent Baen Books the publisher was always … Continue reading
O2 buys the Link?
This is a bit late, but I see that the mobile phone shops are starting to merge. O2 has bought The Link. I suspect very strongly that this will lead to substantial closures of stores. There seem to be any … Continue reading
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Running Oracle – The Solution
This follows on from my previous posting. Searching for an Oracle This is kind of old news now, because it’s been in use since SQLEditor 1.2 was released. However I though I would explain how I solved the problem that … Continue reading
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Tagged Database, Oracle, Parallels-workstation, SQL, SQLEditor, technology
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Change console keyboard layout in debian
I’ve been using Parallels Workstation virtualization a lot recently for testing databases and it works amazingly well. However I did come across a weird problem. I’d installed Debian linux and the console keyboard layout wasn’t correct for my Apple USB … Continue reading
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Finding and fixing StackOverFlowError in java
I was having a problem with some java one day, I’d made a change to some code and I kept getting a StackOverflowError. Unfortunately the stack trace didn’t help and some time inspecting the code didn’t offer any quick solutions. … Continue reading
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SQLEditor, Intel and No January Posts
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to make a single post to this site during January. Then suddenly I made several posts today. Why? The main reason is that I’ve been hard at work producing a Universal Binary version of SQLEditor. Which … Continue reading
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The Name Game
When I first read this I genuinely thought it was a joke, but as far as I can tell it’s absolutely genuine, the companies involved really did change their names. Some of them had to have new names; obviously if … Continue reading
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More on Disney DVD releases
Scottie (who knows far more about films than I will probably ever know) was kind enough to offer a carefully considered response to my post on Disney DVDs which due to some stupidity on my part was lost. Here it … Continue reading
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Searching for an Oracle
Recently I’ve been trying to set up a box to run Oracle again. There are enough SQLEditor users that Oracle support is important. Fortunately Oracle have several downloads that can be used, there is a developer license for 10g and … Continue reading
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