In your ~/.my.cnf add
pager=less -niSFX
Then your multi-screen results will be paged and you can press -> to scroll right for columns past 80 characters.
Monday, 4 February 2008
Great Patriotic War
While I'm in an Eastern European frame of kind I'd like to recommend a website a Russian Perl programmer colleague mentioned to me last year.
Soldiers of the Great War: http://english.pobediteli.ru/
Click on “Multimedia Map Of The War” on the GREEN arrow where it says Start Presentation.
It is a truly amazing volunteer effort using Flash animations of the WWII Russian/”Great Patriotic War” battles with pictures, video clips and reminiscences from wartime survivors about their actions.
They were evidently grateful to the USA and UK for convoy and supply support during the war. It helps explain the extreme guardedness they felt after WWII after having half their territory invaded. Many millions of people died.
When you look at the map (all of Ukraine invaded, German armies at Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad) and see how close they came to being gutted - like the UK, we came close too - it's a visceral feeling.
Soldiers of the Great War: http://english.pobediteli.ru/
Click on “Multimedia Map Of The War” on the GREEN arrow where it says Start Presentation.
It is a truly amazing volunteer effort using Flash animations of the WWII Russian/”Great Patriotic War” battles with pictures, video clips and reminiscences from wartime survivors about their actions.
They were evidently grateful to the USA and UK for convoy and supply support during the war. It helps explain the extreme guardedness they felt after WWII after having half their territory invaded. Many millions of people died.
When you look at the map (all of Ukraine invaded, German armies at Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad) and see how close they came to being gutted - like the UK, we came close too - it's a visceral feeling.
Monday, 21 January 2008
Ukrainian Perl Workshop 2008
It's too warm in Britain. I need to freeze my nuts off. I have a yearning for dumplings. I want to visit Kyiv.
These can be the only explanations for...
going to the Ukrainian Perl Workshop 2008 !!!
I'll be there on 23rd February to give a talk on Getting started with ExtJS Javascript screen library and Catalyst Perl.
Feel free to come up and say "Hi!" if you're going.
-Peter
These can be the only explanations for...
going to the Ukrainian Perl Workshop 2008 !!!
I'll be there on 23rd February to give a talk on Getting started with ExtJS Javascript screen library and Catalyst Perl.
Feel free to come up and say "Hi!" if you're going.
-Peter
Saturday, 19 January 2008
Farewell Bobby Fischer
The American chess genius Bobby Fischer (9th March 1943 - Jan 17th 2008) has died.
As a keen chess player I learnt much from Bobby's "My 60 Memorable Games" and although it's sad that he had mental problems throughout his life I respected his decision to play his rematch with Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia during the war that saw the break-up of Yugoslavia. It was particularly breath-taking to watch America, a country that has invaded Cuba three times in the last century, and fomented so much dissent in South America - put Bobby, a brilliant but mentally ill chess player, on their wanted list and causing his exile in Iceland. This attitude says so much about how the US ended up in the Iraq invasion, or"Vietnam II" as I think of it.
A certain monomanical attititude is required to excel at programming, as in chess, and I wish to salute this genius of pattern-matching and algorithmic selection.
-Peter
As a keen chess player I learnt much from Bobby's "My 60 Memorable Games" and although it's sad that he had mental problems throughout his life I respected his decision to play his rematch with Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia during the war that saw the break-up of Yugoslavia. It was particularly breath-taking to watch America, a country that has invaded Cuba three times in the last century, and fomented so much dissent in South America - put Bobby, a brilliant but mentally ill chess player, on their wanted list and causing his exile in Iceland. This attitude says so much about how the US ended up in the Iraq invasion, or"Vietnam II" as I think of it.
A certain monomanical attititude is required to excel at programming, as in chess, and I wish to salute this genius of pattern-matching and algorithmic selection.
-Peter
Monday, 3 December 2007
3 Skypephone
So the UK mobile telecomms network three.co.uk has launched a Skype mobile phone that handles Skype instant messaging as well as Skype calls and I've bought one of these little (86 gram) beauties.
I use Skype heavily to provide tech support and communicate with colleagues in several countries and up till now I've not really had a mobile alternative. Other so-called Skype phones don't handle IM so I've been off-line when travelling to customer sites unless I booted up my laptop.
This phone gives you mobile broadband access from your laptop - either by Bluetooth or USB cable (supplied) - and an amazing range of goodies for the low price of £50 (PAYG) or £12 p.m. (contract). The contract is worth it as you get 100 mins talk time (not used when making free Skype calls) and you can add-on inexpensive 3G Internet access and mobile TV.
I didn't really buy the phone for entertainment but the media player (stereo headphone supplied), TV and other services and the BREW operating system platform for games (also runs Java VM) means it is surprisingly good fun. An immediate must-do is to read the Skypephone forum for tips, download and install the Opera mini browser so you can browse non-WAP sites and for mobile email install flurry.
If you wanted entertainment (and were rich!), you'd buy an iPhone, and if you wanted a PDA you'd buy a Blackberry or Treo but if you want a work Skype phone that offers a lot more this is a great phone.
--Peter
I use Skype heavily to provide tech support and communicate with colleagues in several countries and up till now I've not really had a mobile alternative. Other so-called Skype phones don't handle IM so I've been off-line when travelling to customer sites unless I booted up my laptop.
This phone gives you mobile broadband access from your laptop - either by Bluetooth or USB cable (supplied) - and an amazing range of goodies for the low price of £50 (PAYG) or £12 p.m. (contract). The contract is worth it as you get 100 mins talk time (not used when making free Skype calls) and you can add-on inexpensive 3G Internet access and mobile TV.
I didn't really buy the phone for entertainment but the media player (stereo headphone supplied), TV and other services and the BREW operating system platform for games (also runs Java VM) means it is surprisingly good fun. An immediate must-do is to read the Skypephone forum for tips, download and install the Opera mini browser so you can browse non-WAP sites and for mobile email install flurry.
If you wanted entertainment (and were rich!), you'd buy an iPhone, and if you wanted a PDA you'd buy a Blackberry or Treo but if you want a work Skype phone that offers a lot more this is a great phone.
--Peter
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Blog
I run a business that provides business IT consultancy to help other companies run their operations and improve their efficiency by using Open Source software (we're specialists in Linux, MySQL, Perl and PHP and web technologies).
We work particularly in the recruitment sector although we also do websites for all types of small businesses.
I've decided to start a blog to cover some of the technical and industry issues we come across.
We work particularly in the recruitment sector although we also do websites for all types of small businesses.
I've decided to start a blog to cover some of the technical and industry issues we come across.
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