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Featured on Fossfa.Net
I got featured on the Fossfa.Net website. Please do not mind the English as I was interviewed by a German lady. Here is the link: http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/blog/%5Buser-raw%5D/featuring-our-community-members-joe-murithi-njeru
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Uganda – Easter Weekend
If Nigeria is the armpit of Africa, Uganda must be the Pearl….
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“/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lprobes_mysql”
I got the following error when I was building my PHP 5.3.5 on MySQL 5.5 / HTTPD 2.2.17 / CentOS 5.5 64bit. checking for mysql_set_server_option in -lmysqlclient… no configure: error: wrong mysql library version or lib not found. Check config.log for more information. I discovered the issue was with my build of MySQL 5.5. You…
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Convert string from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd using mysql
I had a large dataset with all the date fields in the format DD/MM/YYYY. I needed to convert them to YYYY-MM-DD . I ran the following queries: UPDATE TABLE_NAME SET FIELD_NAME = replace(FIELD_NAME, ‘/’, ‘-‘); UPDATE TABLE_NAME SET FIELD_NAME = str_to_date(FIELD_NAME,’%d-%m-%Y’); Hope it helps…
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Android Task Management Synchronization with Evolution Email Client
This is how I’ve set up my Task Management: Step 1: Astrid Get Astrid from the Android Market. Link this with Producteev Synchronization. (You will need a Producteev Account – Free) Step 2: Producteev Account Create an account and link to Google Calendar. Setup Workspace, Labels etc. Step 3: Google Calendar Copy the ical Private…
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Lake Manyara National Park – New Years Day 2011
Find below pictures from this slice of Paradise:
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Ngorongoro 2010
Spent New years in Tanzania and visited Ngorongoro and Lake Manayara National Parks. Find below a few pictures from Ngorongoro.
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Adobe Air on 64 bit Fedora Core 14 Install
To install Adobe Air on 64Bit Fedora Core 14 take the following steps: yum install ld-linux.so.2 gtk2-devel.i686 libdbus-glib-1.so.2 libhal.so.1 rpm-devel.i686 libXt.so.6 gnome-keyring-devel.i686 libDCOP.so.4 libxml2-devel.i686 nss-devel.i686 libxslt.i686 xterm libgnome-keyring.i686
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MySQL Workbench CONCAT showing BLOB data fix
If you find CONCAT results over a remote connection bringing a BLOB value use the following to fix this. fix confirmed in repository. option: “Treat BINARY/VARBINARY as nonbinary character string” has been added to app Preferences “SQL Editor” section http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53920
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Convert all FLV’s in a directory to Ogg Theora (video)
I just submitted the following to commandlinefu : Do you have a large library of flv’s you have picked up over the years using FlashGot Firefox plugin? Do you want to be able to convert them to Ogg Theora (video) at once? Try out this script… for i in $(ls *.flv); do ffmpeg2theora -v 6…
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