Cygwin: How to setup inetd
(You have to have administrative privileges.)
Make sure you have set system PATH to cygwin binary directory: “My Computer” (right click) –> “properties” –> “Advanced” tab –> “Environment Variables” button on the bottom right above the “OK” button.
Register your cygwin inetd service to Windows’ service:
$ /usr/sbin/inetd –install-as-service
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Cygwin: Your group is currently “mkpasswd”
I just updated my cygwin environment and started receiving following errors upon login to console:
Your group is currently “mkpasswd”. This indicates that your
gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd.
The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
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T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
What the heck is “T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM” ???
When you are programming classes in PHP, you might encounter this error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in xxxxxx on line nn
Well, basically you screwed up some static scope reference somewhere. The origin of this error is something to do with the origin of […] Continue Reading…
Google Hot Trends Keywords to 20 entries
While we are doing a maintenance of our google hot trends keyword database, realized that the number of keywords provided was changed to 20 entries from previous 40 around 18:00 EST on December 16, 2009. We recall sometime in September, it was reduced from 100 to previous 40.
May be […] Continue Reading…
MySQL: case insesitive “GROUP BY”
When we were building some SQL statements to gather some statistics and realized that the “GROUP BY” clause is NOT case sensitive on MySQL… (we are using utf8_unicode_ci as a character set collation)
i.e.
mysql> select keyword, count(*) from TopKeywords
-> where lower(keyword) like ‘secured loans’
-> group by keyword;
+—————+———-+
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