One fine day, Windows decided to switch the drive letters of my E: and F:. Here is how to change them back.

Just to remember typing svn resolved file after resolving a svn-conflict.

To generate localized dates in php scripts, you need setlocale, strftime, and maybe a search in /usr/share/locale.

The MessageDlg function is used to display messages to the user. These messages may be informational, or warnings or whatever. There is complete freedom over the choice of buttons that the user may press to acknowledge the dialog.

One of the drawbacks I encountered switching people to open source software, was the difficult downloading system of SourceForge. For that reason, I set up my own download page for some sourceforge projects, about two years ago.

Today, I noticed that the download links on sourceforge now show the text `Download', which is much clearer than the previous links, showing the size of the download.

MySQL's (mmm, I like MySQL) auto_increment is called IDENT in SQL Server (brr, I do not like SQL server).

According to this /.-post, Winbind can be used to log on to AD from Linux/BSD/...

I just put `Dive into Accessibility' on my `should read when I have some time left'-list.

Thanks to Bogtha for the link.

I really should read this article on PHP and LDAP.

Question: How to change a column type in MySql?

Answer:

alter table accounts change paswoord paswoord varchar(60);

(see this list of handy mysql commands.)

After upgrading to MySql-server 5, I found my BugZilla installation broken. Luckily I was not the first one with this problem, and Chuck Caplan posted a solution on his blog.

MySql knows a lot of String manipulation functions, of which SUBSTRING_INDEX is very useful to split e.g. adress lines containing comma's :-)

This document covers a very specific, limited purpose, but one that meets a common need: preventing browser, mail, and other clients from complaining about the certificates installed on your server. Not covered is dealing with a commercial root certificate authority (CA). Instead, we will become our own root CA, and sign our own certificates.

I have always problems getting PHP 4 running with apache 1.3 on a Debian based sytstem.

This time I needed to install libapache-mod-php4.

Previously I mentioned fentun as a decoder of winmail.dat files. I've found WMDecode very useful as well.