This is a cool little trick that I did not know you could do with MySQL. This article shows you how to go about creating cached queries in MySQL. This functionality is available as standard with the ColdFusion server so I am not sure if I would use it, but if your site runs on php, or something other than CFMX, definitely have a read.
Check these out, two interesting articles on what makes a successful blog. (I have got to come up with more interesting things to say about some of these links 
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I have always wonered if Apple could have beaten Microsoft in the desktop computer arena. When they created the Mac in 1984, they created a computer that was a decade ahead of anything that Microsoft or IBM had come out with and yet they still lost out to Microsoft, why? John Gruber has written an article that explain this. His final conclusion is that in order for Apple to have had a real chance to compete with Microsoft at the time they would have had to create a computer that was merely evolutionary and not revolutionary. Personally, I will take revolutionary.
This past Saturday, I went on what I thought would be a simple little quest: to find a CMOS battery for my linux server. By the end of the day I had done a full reinstall of White Box Linux onto my server and still had not changed the CMOS battery.I started this little quest by going to one of my favorite computer stores to see if they sold CMOS batteris, they were sold out. Finally after the forth store I had a CMOS battery. I also tried to by a stack of DVD-R discs at this store, but they could not get their Interac machine to work so I just bought the battery (their loss), which turned out to be the wrong kind. You would think that motherboard manufactures would have standardized on one single kind of battery. Anyway, since I still wanted to buy some DVD-R’s and some other hardware, I went back to the first store that I had visited. There I bought a spindle of DVD-R discs, a new DVD-rom drive and a Western Digital 120GB hard drive, the later two for my linux server.
When I finally got home, I had two new peices of hardware to install into my very stable, perfectly configured linux server. How hard could it be? Actually, once I found some instructions online — from one of the Red Hat manuals — I was able to get the second hard drive partitioned, formated and installed, so not really all that hard after all. I added the new drive to my Samba config and was able to access it from my other computers. So far eveything was going great. Then the trouble began.
As I was moving some backup files onto the new drive, I noticed that I was very quickly loosing commands. The first one to go was the ‘clear’ command. This was not a good sign. I closed the shell I was using and opened another one and found more commands had vanished. In the end, I the privilege of slowly watching my /usr directory suffer a complete meltdown.
I am sure that a RHCE would have known exactly what to do in this situation to save the computer, but I am not one, so a reinstall was my only real solution. The only problem was that there were some files in my home directory that I didn’t want to loose. Thankfully, I have a burned copy of Knoppix. This allowed me to boot into the computer and ftp the files I needed to my website. Then I did a reinstall. So far everything seems to be working fine, but I have a lot of work ahead of me to get the server back to were it was.
The only good side of this whole experience is that I was able to fix some mistakes I made in the partitioning. Other than that, I think this past weekend was mostly a disaster. I have got to learn more about how Red Hat and Linux works.
Endnote: I did finally find a cmos battery that would work in my server — at Radio Shack.
There seems to be a bunch of really usefull articles on the web lately about learning CSS. Here are the ones that I have found so far.
Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified
As I find more, I will add the links to this post.
I really don’t know what to write about this link, but you really do need to go and read it, regardless of whether you are a creative or not.
Sitepoint has a little article listing five free window applications. I picked up the screen capture app. I haven’t used it yet, but it looks really good and I have been looking for a good screen capture program for some time now. Go have a read and maybe you will find a new favorite program.
