Archive for August, 2008

Mini Searches with Answers

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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.

iPhone and iPod touch: Unable to restore
Fixing weird issue where my iphone was completely busted after firmware upgrade and iTunes just hung / stuck at "accessing iTunes store" when I plugged in the iphone.

Get a list of your installed packages and reinstall on a new computer
dpkg –get-selections > installed-software\dpkg –set-selections < installed-software\sudo apt-get install dselect\dselect\(choose install option)\(backslashes seperate lines/commands)

Property taxes: Where does your state rank? – MSN Money
What's the best US state to buy some land and there-after live a money free existence? I.e., low property taxes.

Innovative Mockup tool – I don’t think it’s free though
Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.

Buy and Sell Electronics, Sell Cell Phone, Recycle Electronics – gazelle.com
Pretty cool, you sell your old electronics to them and they even send you a box to mail it in.

SQL BNF
Someday I'll write a SQL parser in Python for Utility Mill to do cool stuff like generate an insert statement from a create table statement.

Python for .NET
Lets you use .net objects from you cPython code.

Week 8: structs, malloc
How to dynamically allocate an array of structs:
struct rating* ratings = (struct rating*) malloc(NUM_RATINGS * sizeof(struct rating));

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