I upgraded my iPhone 3 GS to OS 4. Not as smooth as I had hoped.
First, the backup took 14 hours and 30 minutes. Then after the upgrade the phone was no longer recognized by Windows. I ended up having to uninstall iTunes and all it’s pieces, and reinstall. Then the phone synched.
About the only thing I notice different is that there’s wallpaper under the AP buttons. Oh, and all my ring tones went away, and my blue tooth connections.
WARNING: Manually disable all your plug-ins before attempting the automatic upgrade to WordPress 3.0.
Otherwise your blog will die painfully. If it’s too late, do a manual upgrade install (copy all the files via FTP) and then do an automatic re-install to clear any error messages. You may have to delete a file called .maintenance to get access to your blog after a failed install.
Been there, done that.
I was trying to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BULK INSERT to load about 2.2 million records in a table and it was taking FOREVER . I’m used to bulk inserts flying.
I looked into the details and found out that the table had 15 indexes, so I dropped all of those indexes except the single clustered primary key. It still took FOREVER (2 hours) and it looked like the longer it ran the SLOWER it got.
Then I thought for a minute about what it was doing, trying to cluster that data. Every batch of 10,000 records had to be smushed into where other records used to be. So I sorted the input in primary key order and now it takes 5 minutes.
Live and learn
Want to use client-side sockets with Indy? Did you find references all over the web to this tutorial?
http://www.intelicom.si/domcms.nsf/web/en.products001.html
I won’t keep you in suspense. The tutorial is now here:
http://www.intelidoc.biz/www.nsf/docs/6ERHETDSTR?opendocument&cat=11&doc=6ERHETDSTR&lang=en
But don’t ask me for any help because I am as lost as you are.
Little fire
When we use fossil fuels for energy, we leave a carbon footprint. Even though I drive a Prius, it still burns gas. But what got to me was when I realized the carbon emissions from everything else I do.
I started walking around the house viewing each device consuming energy as a little fire pouring a little bit of carbon into the atmosphere. There’s that clock radio on all the time. Then there is that other clock radio in the guest room. Then there is that other clock radio that really only gets used to charge my iPhone. Then there is the TV, stereo equipment, satellite dish box that are “turned off” but not really. Two computers on all the time, and the inkjet printer. There’s all manner of bricks (wall mounted AC adapters) powering routers, scanners, shredders, laptop chargers, cell phone chargers, a digital picture frame and an electric drill recharger. I walked into the kitchen and not one but three digital clocks greeted me, one on the oven, one on the microwave and one on the coffee maker. The refrigerator runs, and the hot water heater, the house heat, and the heating pad in the dog house.
Even after I go through the house turning off all those lights the wife left on, my house is full of little fires pouring their little bits of carbon into the air.