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  1. Wathcing the clock is fun on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    I particularly enjoyed watching the clock on the stove. Lady 1 says something while the clock says 3:41 beside her. While she is still talking, the video cuts to a reaction shot of lady #2 where the clock says 4:07. There were many breaks in time like this that the clock gives away. I'm not a video professional but that sure seems like something any qualified director would notice while shooting.

  2. CouchDB on Data Locking In a Web Application? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out CouchDB. It is built around the concepts of distributed (and even offline) databases and handles conflict resolution. It employs optimistic locking.

  3. Re:free? on Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I also couldn't run Parallels more than 15 minutes on my Mac Pro without it causing a kernel panic. I'm glad to hear someone else had the same problem.

    I switched to VMWare Fusion and haven't looked back.

  4. Re:OpenID problems on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 1

    Update: Yahoo/Flickr didn't work for me. AOL did.

  5. OpenID problems on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    The openID authentication isn't working for me. Anyone else having problems?

  6. Not all due to paper switch on Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion · · Score: 1
    The $3 billion cost increase is not due to just the switch back to paper.

    The $2.2 billion to $3 billion cost increase for the decennial census is due to reverting to a paper-based census as well as other costs that are not associated with the handheld computers.
  7. mod_sql_conf on Configuring Apache From A Database? · · Score: 1

    I too wondered if this was possible. So, I wrote a shared Apache module that I call mod_sql_conf. It accepts commands like SQLConfigHost, SQLConfigUser, SQLConfigPassword, SQLConfigDatabase, SQLConfigTable, SQLConfigFiled, SQLConfigWhere, SQLConfigOrderBy. Then when it finds the command SQLConfigLoad, it loads the text from the database and processes it as commands in the configuration file. It is still a beta version, as I'm the only one who has used it, and just to test it out. It was really just a proof-of-concept experiment for myself. I know it works on a Linux system. And right now it only works with MySQL, although it was created to be ported to other databases in the future with minimal work. I was planning on releasing this as an open source work under the GPL, but I just haven't got around to it.

    I am away from my home computer for another week or so, but I'd be happy to make the source available to you when I return after the new year.