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Mini Searches with Answers

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

weka – Converting CSV to ARFF
How to read in a CSV file in Weka. How to output an ARFF file in Weka.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Why are they called chocolate chip flavored cookies?
This guys says it's because they don't have real chocolate chips, rather oil flavored with chocolate.

How to connect to Sybase from SSIS 2008 (Windows Server 64 bit)
To manage a data source that connects to a 32-bit driver under 64-bit platform, use c:\windows\sysWOW64\odbcad32.exe. To manage a data source that connects to a 64-bit driver, use c:\windows\system32\odbcad32.exe.
If you use the 64-bit odbcad32.exe to configure or remove a DSN that connects to a 32-bit driver, for example, Driver do Microsoft Access (*.mdb), you will receive the following error message:

The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application
To resolve this error, use the 32-bit odbcad32.exe to configure or remove the DSN.

Primitive Data Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
Java – What is the value of a long variable after it is declared but before it is set/initialized? Answer is 0L.

Home – PythonSecurity.org
Useful Python articles

Join in Java [java] [string]
How to join a collection into a delimited string in Java.

In Python it's ','.join(list). Oh Python, I miss you.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

clueTip: A jQuery Tooltip Plugin
A good tooltip library for jquery that I used today

Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz
An authoritative chart of the top SEO factors

Tip: Scaling your Remote Desktop session « llemarie’s weblog
I woke up today and connected to remote desktop and it wouldn't scale to fit my screen anymore. It just gave me it in a window with these awful scroll bars.

This post tells how to fix this.

WatchOCR
Linux live CD to OCR PDF files on a watched folder

SSRS – Group_Concat Equivalent using an Expression? – Stack Overflow
How to do group_concat in SQL Server. It's actually not that bad in 2005 and above.

/trunk/python/arff.py – dataformat
The only arff file parser I found with no external dependencies.

Instances
How to use the weka ARFF parser … I think

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Mini Searches with Answers

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Reporting Services – table sum problem : reporting, services, sum
How to add a grand total to a SSRS report to a column that has duplicate values. Write a custom code function to do it. See comments by PFrog. (sorry it's experts exchange)

PyWin32 Documentation
Actual documentation for the PyWin32 package

Do Vultures Eat Vultures?
Do vultures eat dead vultures? The internet doesn't seem to know, but these folks say no.

‘xp_cmdshell’ does not exist??
In order to configure xp_cmdshell, first need to enable the advanced options and then only all the advanced configuration options works out.

It can be done as follows:

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

Refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189631.aspx for more options.

“Access is denied” error message when you run a batch job on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
How to make SSIS call a batch file. I used method 1: Grant the Cmd.exe program Read and Execute permissions for the user account that the batch job runs under.

Method 2 didn't seem to help.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

How to Schedule and Run a SSIS package ( DTS ) Job in SQL Server 2005 – CodeProject
I used this to set up an account for SSRS to run a SSIS package

jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0 – Dealing with markup inside cells
How to fix issue where tablesorter jquery plugin doesn't sort correctly on Firefox.

taw’s blog: Greasemonkey and jQuery easier than ever
A new way to user jquery with greasemonkey

Irregular Webcomic! #1420
Intuitive explanation of Maxwells equations.

taw’s blog: Use Greasemonkey to vote for hotter girls
The old way to use jquery with greasemonkey. I'm not sure which is better

Timesheet Next Gen
I haven't tried it yet, but after searching, this appears to be the best open source timesheet software.

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