RichRock : Running Free

The Collective - Seasons (New MTB DVD!!)

richrock — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:49:42 +0000

These guys rule the roost with their DVD’s showing the best mountain biking action in the most creative way, using film as the media…

Watch… I can’t wait…

More Linux Fanaticism

richrock — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:49:38 +0000

While I wait for the backups to complete, I find myself drifting around on the internet. In my open-source meanderings (on Firefox obviously), I find this. A spiffy collection of cool tech-orientated cartoons, with one of my favourite Dilbert strips at the top.

Plus I want this. As I’ve been doing a lot of MySQL stuff recently, it only seems appropriate.

MySQL - Next Auto-Increment

richrock — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:11:06 +0000

Simple - in a mysql prompt, type this:
SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'tablename';

Where the tablename is the table you need to find the next auto_increment value. It should be the 9th value in the results.

Teaching - but no insights

richrock — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:21:50 +0000

Well, I’m supposed to be teaching in my homegroup tonight. There is a preferred subject, but I’ve had no inspiration about how to go about it. The problem is simple - do a subject I’ve done quite a few times, but differently.

All I have is a sequence of events that I’d like to unfold the session with. However, the actual elements (quotes, stories, questions, practicals) have yet to materialise. Am I panicking?

Yes.

PHP programming

richrock — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:28:08 +0000

I’ll admit that I’m a n00b at this. I’ve been starting on the slippery road to being a programmer, having dabbled in a little Javascript and fairly fluent in HTML & CSS. So now I find myself trying to grasp the concept of PHP programming.

Don’t forget - I’m self-taught. I’ve been working on a lot of PHP>Database interactions, and I plan to share those with you, in the interest of Open Source Software. I’ll be writing some tutes on the basics next week, as I’m on holiday, and I’ll be doing a fair bit of writing then.

Until then, enjoy! Oh, and I’ll be posting some more photography too.

Bloomin’ Apple Trailers

richrock — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:57:32 +0000

Don’t get me wrong. I like watching movie trailers from www.apple.com/trailers. But this metrics.apple.com just makes it hang. I can leave a page loading for about 10 minutes and still it’s ‘waiting for metrics.apple.com’ If anyone’s got any idea why, or if I can bypass it, please let me know. My system is Ubuntu 7.10, the browser is Firefox 2.0.0.12.