Good ol’ OS 9

Funny.

I was one of the early (I think my 1st installed OS X version was developer release 4) adapters of OS X. And I very rarely thought back of OS 9/8/7/6. All the new thrills of the new OS made you forget about the good things of the classic OS’s.

This blogentry however sumarizes the most missed features of the old classic OS.

I personally miss feature #6. Tabbed folders the most.

Maybe one of the best commercials ever…

70,000 litres of paint
358 single bottle bombs
33 sextuple air cluster bombs
22 Triple hung cluster bombs
268 mortars
33 Triple Mortars
22 Double mortars
358 meters of weld
330 meters of steel pipe
57 km of copper wire

Gave this:

Check out the bravia-advert website for more pictures and the excellent behind the scenes footage.

Hilarious (and so happy it wasn’t me)

A mistake every DBA could make…having your auto-incremental primary key big enough to handle almost every thinkable 2 to the power of n, but you overlook the size of your index.

It has happened to slashdot last week:
Original story.

The funniest comment is imho:

Alright, who’s the joker who posted the 16,777,216th comment?

Thanks for breaking slashdot, jerk :D

duh

Sometimes you think to yourself: duh

Copy a table from 1 database to another was always something I did by exporting the table+data and importing it. Or I used the phpmyadmin tool for it.
Like today, but somehow my eye fell on the SQL syntax phpmyadmin used:

INSERT INTO newdb.newtable
SELECT *
FROM olddb.oldtable;

DUH!

Ofcourse this only works if you have copied the structure of the table already.