Office Space Kit, including: Red Stapler Initech Mug “Is this Good for the Company?” Sign Starter “Flair” “PC Load Letter” Copy Machine Sticker Your Very Own “Jump To Conclusions” Mat An Initech mug by itself:
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Norton Ghost 12.0: My latest favorite tool
Just used Norton Ghost to upgrade/replace a hard drive that was in the early stages of failing–it had had a few intermittent blue screen/reboots: This was a HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop with a 60GB drive and XP Home. Event Viewer showed several things of note around the reboot times:Got a bug check: 0x0000007a (0xc03dd9a4, 0xc000000e, […]
Norton Ghost 12.0: My latest favorite tool
Just used Norton Ghost to upgrade/replace a hard drive that was in the early stages of failing–it had had a few intermittent blue screen/reboots: This was a HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop with a 60GB drive and XP Home. Event Viewer showed several things of note around the reboot times:Got a bug check: 0x0000007a (0xc03dd9a4, 0xc000000e, […]
Further refined Find Text in Column Name
Now returns table (or function which returns a table) and column name. CREATE FUNCTION Find_Text_In_Column_Name (@StringToSearch varchar(100))RETURNS @fColumnNames TABLE (tablename sysname, colname sysname)ASBEGIN SET @StringToSEarch = ‘%’ + @StringToSearch + ‘%’ INSERT @fColumnNames SELECT DISTINCT SO.NAME, SC.NAME FROM syscolumns SC (NOLOCK)INNER JOIN sysobjects SO (NOLOCK) ON SC.id = SO.id WHERE SC.NAME LIKE @StringToSearch ORDER BY […]
Split times necessary for a 4 hour marathon
Functions to find text in column names and in stored procedures and function definitions
Implemented in SQL Server:This function finds a text string in a stored procedure or function definition: CREATE FUNCTION Find_Text_In_SP_or_FN (@StringToSearch varchar(100))RETURNS @fNames TABLE (name sysname)ASBEGIN SET @StringToSearch = ‘%’ + @StringToSearch +’%’ INSERT @fNames SELECT DISTINCT SO.Name FROM sysobjects SO (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN syscomments SC (NOLOCK) on SO.ID = SC.ID AND (SO.Type = ‘P’ OR […]
Google code search for “I’m an idiot”
My new favorite toy: Google code search Some interesting comments and such left in code: I’m an idiot. Why the hell wtf Some idiot What an idiot Google code search even does regex. How about a string of random ? and !?
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Apple iPod Nano World Travel Combo
The basic 2 GB iPod nano (2nd generation): Apple iPod USB power adapter: Apple world travel adapter kit: