December 2007

2008 coming soon - Time to make another new year resolution

Submitted by Yunyao on Mon, 12/31/2007 - 20:17

Year 2008 is less than 12 hours away for me. In fact, it is already 2008 in most part of the world. For many people, it is time to make their new year resolution. It is true for me as well. Continue reading »

How to load context of text files into DB2

Submitted by Yunyao on Sat, 12/29/2007 - 00:48

The task is fairly simply --- I need to load the content of some text files into DB2. There are many ways to do so, but since I only need to this only once (hopefully), I want to find an easy way without writing any external code.

So here is the solution:

(1) create a table containing a CLOB (VARCHAR should work as well, if we know the maxium size of the files in advance) column. For example:

create table test (docid INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,doc CLOB)

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Reference to Individual Email Message in Plain Text File

Submitted by Huahai on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 22:40

A lot of people implement GTD methodology entirely with Gmail. I don't feel comfortable doing that because gmail is not that secure. And I think depending on a network service is a bad idea for a GTD system. So I still download all my emails to my local computers. Continue reading »

Editing Web Textarea with Desktop Editor

Submitted by Huahai on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 07:17

Nowadays we do a lot of text input on the Web, like posting on forums, filling out a support request form, commenting on someone's blog, etc. Although Web forms often offer a variety of so-called rich text editing capabilities, nothing beats the good old desktop editors. For a vim person, a plain Web textarea simply is not the place for text editing. Fortunately, for Firefox users, this pain can be eased. There are a few Firefox addons that allow people to use external editors for editing textarea. Continue reading »

Firefox Hangs

Submitted by Huahai on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:52

Although Firefox is considered very safe and stable, it sometimes hangs. In the past, when it hung, my solution was to remove the whole ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. It worked every time (reinstalling Firefox doesn't help). Of course, I would always backup my bookmarks.html and other files under the chrome sub-directory first. Then I had to reinstall the add-ons when I got a working firefox. It turned out I shouldn't have taken such a drastic action. Continue reading »

An Mac Look for my KDE Desktop

Submitted by Huahai on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 10:04

Although I have never laid my hands on an Apple computer, I have seen people going crazy about them. I remember seeing some kids shouting hysterically in front of Apple store on the release day of Tiger a few years ago. The user interface of Apple's OS is said to be one of the selling points. So when I was feeling tired of Mepis Linux's default look last night, I decided to try an OS X look for a change. It turned out to be relatively easy to do.

KDE widget Basically, getting an OS X Tiger look and feel on KDE involves installing a theme that imitates its look and feel. There is a KDE theme called Baghirathat does just that. It's so popular that Debian sid has it in the pool, so

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