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Comment on Securing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 10.04 by bee

bee — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:20:36 +0000

Comment on Steam XML Parser by MikeMurko

MikeMurko — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:13:34 +0000

Cheers! I was just about to embark on a similar quest … thanks for releasing the code. I first saw a forum post of yours that said it was a WordPress plugin, and I was dreading going through the source and de-tangling it from WP.

Right now I’m rewriting my WP blog from scratch in CodeIgniter so this is a huge help.

Thanks!

Comment on Securing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 10.04 by Misty

Misty — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:34:30 +0000

Please teach the rest of these internet hooligans how to write and raesrech!

Comment on Kibibyte or Kilobyte? by Ashton

Ashton — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:08:37 +0000

As of Snow Leopard, Macs don’t have that problem. Just saying.

Comment on Kibibyte or Kilobyte? by Nate

Nate — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:03:08 +0000

Thank you for this information! I had no idea why my hard drive shipped with less space. This website was very helpful in solving my problem.

Comment on Subnet Calculator and NetTrain.com by Jim D

Jim D — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:59:30 +0000

How can I contact NetTrain? I tried to Google them and there was no phone number that worked… do you have a phone number or contact info other than:

9285 Commerce Highway
Pennsauken, NJ 08110
(856) 662-3600

I’m looking for some of their course info, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Java Normal Probability Approximation Method by Philip Diffenderfer

Philip Diffenderfer — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:46:44 +0000

Just for efficiency’s sake, here’s a few modifications to your code:

static public double getCDF(double x){ final double isqrt2 = 1.0 / Math.sqrt(2); double p = 0.5 * (1 + getERF( x * isqrt2 ) ); return p; } static private double getERF(double x) { final double a = (8 * (Math.PI - 3)) / (3 * Math.PI * (4- Math.PI)); double sq = x * x; double asq = a * sq; double erf = Math.signum(x) * Math.sqrt(1 - Math.exp(-sq *(((4/Math.PI) + asq) / (1 + asq)))); return erf; }
It ensures Java does a little bit more inlining, and there’s less method call overhead.

Comment on Steam XML Parser by Sable

Sable — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:05:53 +0000

Hi,

I run a large online community and I wanted to know if this plugin could show group details instead of individual details?

Regards,

Sable

Comment on MySQL DB Backup Script by Nicholas Pier

Nicholas Pier — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:17:44 +0000

Definitely a worthwhile feature. Personally, I don’t work with very large databases or storage devices where that’s an issue, but I can certainly see it’s merit. Perhaps I’ll edit the post soon to include an additional line to tar the file.

Comment on MySQL DB Backup Script by Ashton

Ashton — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:08:27 +0000

You should gzip the sql file – usually reduces the size by quite a bit.