I recently upgrade VMWare Fusion to version 3. VMWare has steadily increased the stability and featureset of this product, and I appreciated it how they gave us early adopters free upgrades to version 2, but I guess that all ended recently.
One really cool new feature is something I stumbled upon after I upgraded my hard [...]
At Sentry Data Systems, we have a very distributed technology organization. The majority of our technical staff does not work from our Deerfield Beach headquarters. Instead, we have our developers, implementation staff, tech support, and infrastructure personnel spread out across the country, and even a satellite office located in the midwest. Everyone is an employee, [...]
Continue Reading...Was getting the following errors (alternately, depending on permissions settings):
“Unable to Open Database File”
“Unable to Write to Database File”
Found a lot of SQLite users complaining about this, then finally got the tip from this page that I needed to set my permissions on the parent director to writeable by the Apache user too. What a [...]
Continue Reading...Spent a good portion of time on this over the weekend, and it turned out to be frustrating enough and the answers available incomplete enough for me to want to document this here briefly.
I wanted to be able to populate my Django models from an external script by simply calling MyObject.save() . My particular case [...]
Saw this morning where T-Mobile and Microsoft (their subsidiary “Danger”, really) have lost all data stored by users of the Sidekick phone, due to some type of failure with their cloud storage. We’re starting to see stories like this pop up more and more where so-called clouds fail due to some really simple reasons like [...]
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