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I was trying to migrate a MySQL database today, that contained Chinese characters. When you dump the database to standard out, like you normally would with mysqldump, the export doesn’t keep the Chinese characters. I did all sorts of things with the character set, etc., and nothing seemed to work. I always ended up with [...]
Saw some interesting Acid 3 stats on Twitter today from Chris: Acid3 Tests = Chrome4.1(100/100), Safari4.05(100/100), Opera10.5(100/100), Firefox3.6(94/100), IE7(6/100), IE8(20/100), IE9(55/100) Ok Micro$oft, it’s really not that hard. All the cool kids are doing it. Make your damn browser work, so we can move out of 1995, and enter the 21st century.
A couple of other places have reported this over the last week, and here’s how to see the new Google. Just use Firebug and modify the DOM to include this javascript while on google.com. document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com” Here’s what you’ll see, pretty cool looking so far:
I had the misfortune of working with Windows Vista this weekend. Let me just say, I’m a tech kind of guy. I started doing desktop support in 96, dealing with DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT4. Later, that support would include Windows 98, ME, 2K, XP, 2K Server and 2K3 Server. Needless to [...]