Month: May 2004

universal symbol clipart

http://www.fotosearch.com/image-club/universal-symbols/ICL119/

newsprint: gimp plugin to do halftones

i like halftones so i like this.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/newsprint/

updating online inventory from access

Private Sub compute_status()
  Dim Order_date As String
  Dim Receipt_date As String
  Dim resale_date As String
  Dim returned_date As String
  Dim cancelled_date As String
  
  Order_date = Nz(Me.Order_date, "NULL")
  Receipt_date = Nz(Me.Receipt_date, "NULL")
  resale_date = Nz(Me.resale_date, "NULL")
  returned_date = Nz(Me.returned_date, "NULL")
  cancelled_date = Nz(Me.order_cancelled_date, "NULL")

  If Order_date = "NULL" Then
    If resale_date = "NULL" Then
      Me.status = "In Stock"
    Else
      Me.status = "Sold"
      DoCmd.RunSQL ("UPDATE inventory1 SET sold = 1 WHERE inventory_id =" & Me.inventory_ID)
    End If
  Else
    If returned_date = "NULL" And cancelled_date = "NULL" Then
      If resale_date = "NULL" Then
        If Receipt_date = "NULL" Then
          Me.status = "On Order"
        Else
          Me.status = "In Stock"
        End If
      Else
        Me.status = "Sold"
        DoCmd.RunSQL ("UPDATE inventory1 SET sold = 1 WHERE inventory_id =" & Me.inventory_ID)
      End If
    Else
      Me.status = "Rescinded"
      DoCmd.RunSQL ("UPDATE inventory1 SET sold = 1 WHERE inventory_id =" & Me.inventory_ID)
    End If
  End If
End Sub

3d text

http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/3d_text/

no-server accounts in thunderbird

i wanted to switch from using evolution to thunderbird as my mail client. unfortunately, i thought that thunderbird didn’t offer support for email accounts for which their was no corresponding pop server (like a forwarded account). apparently, it can:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=300933#300933

clearing up space on a linux box

df showed me that i had almost filled up my drive.

luckily i found this article about using various tools under debian to find unused packages:

http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=705

drama machine

thrashy, political hc from CT
http://www.freewebs.com/dramamachine

bitorrent resources

http://www.suprnova.org/

columbus photo booth

tim, zach, and i found this ridiculous digital photo machine outside of the record shop in columbus. it was also some kind of car advertisement?!?

replacing text in multiple files

from: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/21091

perl -pi -e 's/lookFor/replaceWith/' *.fileExtension