Monday, October 31, 2011

Visual explanation of SQL joins

I wish I had these pictures in my head when I started learning about joins in SQL.  Might have been a DBA instead of a systems engineer.


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanation-of-sql-joins.html

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Charge iPad or iPad2 over usb in Linux

First, follow these instructions:

http://korenkov.info/ipad-ipad2-charge-ubuntu

For later versions of udev (I tested this on Ubuntu 11.04), make sure that /etc/udev/rules.d/95-ipad_charge.rules looks like the following examples.

For iPad:

ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="129a", RUN+="/usr/bin/ipad_charge"

For iPad2:

ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="129f", RUN+="/usr/bin/ipad_charge"

Then restart udev or reboot.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011