Monthly Archives: August 2009

Expanded output in MySQL prompt

When you have tables with a large amounts of columns, it can be easy to show the columns vertically, as opposed to horizontally. In Postgresql, you can toggle this with \x. In MySQL it's a little bit different. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on August 23, 2009, at 12:08 | 1 comment

Change in law regarding cell phone contracts

Cell phone providers in the Netherlands always try to screw you as hard as they can. The way it was, they were able to automatically extend your contract for another year. The way they screwed you here, is because when you sign up for a new contract, you often get discount. I for instance, was able to get a service worth € 17,50 per month for € 12,50 (240 minutes), the entire year. But, when the contract period would end, my contract would be extended automatically and I would pay € 17,50 per month for a year. You had to remember to call KPN before the contract would end and manually extend the contract to receive another discount. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on August 21, 2009, at 11:08 | No comments

Setting paper size in Mozilla products

Mozilla products, firefox and thunderbird, seem to have the strange behaviour of overriding the paper size set by the operating system; it scales the page to letter and then prints it to A4. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on August 17, 2009, at 13:08 | No comments

APC CS-500 causes USB disruption

I'm having a EM interference problem with the APC CS-500 UPS on two different locations. Those two locations are near each other and there seems to be something wrong the power grid in that area. Both UPS's momentarily switch over to battery several times a day. Some of these times, the apcupsd daemon sends a message saying that the communication with the UPS has been restored (and therefore it had been lost at some point). Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on August 09, 2009, at 12:08 | 1 comment