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I have HP TX1499US that I purchased off Home Depot a while back. I thought it was a very good deal for a tablet PC, with touch screen, with smaller screen (12.1"), with the stuff it comes with. One thing that I’m not really excited about is the OS it came with: Windows Vista. I [...]

This article is an extension of my previous article This time, however, I will write the algorithm completely in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL. For background information and to understand the premise of this post, please glance through my previous post.
Ok now that you’re familiar with what we’re working towards, here’s my assumption of your database structure:

You have [...]

I previously installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my other laptop (HP DV6305US) and I had to pass kernel argument noapic during boot, otherwise Linux will hang on booting. Now that Ubuntu 8.10 is out and I have new tablet PC style HP TX1499US, I thought I’d install Ubuntu 8.10 on it. As it turns out, I [...]

One of my customer had problems printing on Windows on a particular workstation. Whenever a print command is issued, it just sits on the queue without getting printed out. It turned out that the culprit is a print job stuck in print queue. So here’s how to fix it:

Go to control panel and double click [...]

I was trying to connect to a MySQL server at work and I got connection fail “Too many connections”. Here’s the screen shot that I took using Navicat Lite client and Sequel Pro.

I did Googling a bit and I found that most common problem is because MySQL has too many open client being connected [...]