It looks like the Flyers are looking to make some moves.
Rumors, they are a flying!
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Why not? I have heard three is the magic number anyway….
Check out the pictures here.
The Soul had a big win last night over the Orlando Predators last night at the Wachovia Center. The game entered half-time tied up 35-35. The Soul really brought it on at the end and won the game 63-49.
Wow, a Philly team moving to the playoffs. Let’s see how long THAT lasts. I predict a first round loss…
Sometimes I have to use Windows. However, life isn’t always TOO bad. There is a vim port for windows. However, it does have some default settings that really drive me crazy.
If you have ever installed it, you know what I mean. When you open any file, it creates a temporary swap file. This is fine in Linux, because I always have multiple terminals doing multiple things at once. However, we don’t have that in Windows. Don’t pretend you do. The other setting is the automatic backup option. Open a file, edit, then save. It will create a backup of the original file. To me, that’s not needed.
To fix this, go to your _vimrc file. The default location is in C:\Program Files\Vim. Add these lines to the bottom of the file, and you are all set:
set nobackup
set nowritebackup
set noswapfile
Save and exit. Simple when you know how.
I am EXTREMELY paranoid. Read that again: EXTREMELY paranoid. I tend to back up important data two or three times to multiple locations. It’s just not worth the headache of losing it. So kids, here is a quick and dirty bash script to dump all of your MySQL databases and compress them into individual archives. I know it’s not rocket science, but can it, it works.
#!/bin/bash
password="mysqlrootpassword"
backupdir="/home/backup/mysqldumps/"
cd $backupdir
for database in $(mysql --password=$password -e "show databases" | grep "^\|" | grep -v Database);
do
mysqldump --password=$password $database | bzip2 > $database.sql.bz2;
done
chmod 600 $backupdir/*
Please excuse the ugly spacing, the wordpress theme seems to have chopped it up a bit.
For years I wished that there was a resume option for scp. After a bit of Google work, along with some testing, I now have one using our good friend rsync. Stick this in your .bashrc
alias scpr="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"
Simple. If you are strange and don’t use bash, stick that in your specific shell’s startup file.
Although not exactly what I was hoping for, it is about time SOMETHING happened. Finally, the Flyers signed Antero Niittymaki to a two year deal. They expect him to back up the newly signed Marty Biron. For most normal NHL teams, the backup goalie doesn’t tend to see a lot of ice time. However, with the non-normal Flyers, they tend to split the duty about 60%-40%. Of course, with a completely new coaching and administrative staff, things may change. Let’s just hope the future will be bright for the Flyers.
If I have to go through what I did last season, I’m not sure how long my heart will last.
Don Herbert, AKA Mr Wizard, passed away yesterday. It is a very sad day for us kids that watched the 2nd series of Mr. Wizard’s TV shows. In the 1980’s, Mr. Wizard’s World aired on Nickelodeon.
If you don’t know who Mr. Wizard is, you aren’t cool. Period.
Phil Wellman, the head coach of the Double-A Mississippi Braves really is my new hero. Check out one of the many videos on YouTube to see exactly what I mean. Come on, that is CLASSIC.
After quite a long time, I finally finished reading Watchmen. I really did enjoy it. Much more then I thought I would. Alan Moore, the writer, does tend to get a little overzealous in some political regards, but once I looked past that, I enjoyed it thoroughly. I will look into more of his work and will most likely pick up The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. I’ve already watched the movie, which I know is bad form. Movie before book = bad bad bad.
So much to do, so little time.