A cold cat's remedy
This is what Mowgli does when he feels the outside air is too cold for his tastes:
Why does this scare the crap out of me?
I will think twice about flying on a 787.
As per Computer World:
“The internet of things, in a broad sense, is where we are starting to see everything from planes to cargo devices getting connected,” Bulman said. "The latest planes we are getting, the Boeing 787s, are incredibly connected. Literally every piece of that plane has an internet connection, from the engines, to the flaps, to the landing gear."
MySQL remove duplicate rows
If you have a table as follows:
| Field1 | Field2 | Field3 |
|---|---|---|
| John | 2011-10-01 | G |
| John | 2011-10-01 | G |
| John | 2011-10-01 | G |
| George | 2011-01-02 | B |
| Klaus | 2001-01-01 | B |
and you would like to remove all duplicate rows, the easiest method is to create an unique index like so:
MySQL update of numeric field with sequential number
Suppose you have a table as follow:
| Name | Id |
|---|---|
| John | |
| Peter | |
| George |
and you want to update the Id field with a sequential rank 1,2,3,4,... In MySQL this is a way to do so:
Windows Update Error 80072efd
I struggled for 2 hours with a Windows 2008 SP 2 machine that refused to do anything other than presenting an 80072efd error when asked to perform a Windows Update check. It worked two months ago. Nothing has changed to the best of my knowledge. I tried all the MS KB's. Nothing helped.
So when I merely changed Update Frequency to Install Updates Automatically and checked again, it suddenly started working. WTF?
PS: Seems like this was just a fluke. The real problem was that even though I removed the old (invalid) proxy server definition from IE, it still lingered in