Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. And, today we had our first snow. Well sort of. It did snow a few weeks ago, but it didn't stick. First time we're making a larger Turkey dinner for the family as well. Usually it was us who were invited to someone elses house. Now it's our turn. Scary.
Been dabbling with […]

Not sure what to think anymore. A number of years ago Western Digital drives kept dying on me. I was rather sick of it, so I bought Maxtor instead and they lasted. I bought 20GB, 40GB, 160GB, 200GB and finally 300GB drives all from Maxtor and now the 200GB drives are crapping out on me. […]

One thing that most people don't have to worry about in MySQL is case-sensitivity. Unless you're trying to authenticate a user against a database password and don't use MD5 (like you should!), in which case the password is not case sensitive by default.
In PostgreSQL everything is case sensitive. That means that if you have a […]