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Google Apps Calendar – Only Able To Share Free Busy Information

coolchevy — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:12:42 +0000

The only reason I am writing this is that I have spent many evening trying to fix it! The problem is this: You have Google Apps for your domain. You want to share your calendar outside of the domain. In Google Calendar sharing settings, you have added someone to share with but the only option [...]

How to split one cable between two Ethernet PCs

coolchevy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:46 +0000

Although the scheme below is not recommended for new installations and is not standards-compliant, sometimes it becomes necessary to share one 4-pair cable between two Ethernet computers. The jacks (or patch panel ports, depending on the actual situation) are wired for T568B in this example. If you have T568A jacks or patch panels, just swap [...]

Retrieving elements in a specific order in django

coolchevy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:45:48 +0000

If you have a list of ordered ids and you want to turn them into an ordered result set you can use FIELD() in mysql: SELECT * FROM addons ORDER BY FIELD(id, 3, 5, 9, 1); This is a handy trick if you use an external search engine which gives you an ordered list of [...]

Origin of NoSQL

coolchevy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:16:21 +0000

Where NoSQL comes from:

Simple CGI support for Nginx

coolchevy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:08:19 +0000

Fcgiwrap is a simple server for running CGI applications over FastCGI. It hopes to provide clean CGI support to Nginx (and other web servers that may need it). Features and limitations Features very lightweight (84KB of private memory per instance) fixes broken CR/LF in headers handles environment in a sane way (CGI scripts get HTTP-related [...]