ho.race.hk http://ho.race.hk/blog email: h@race.hk Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 To use SQL Server 2000 from CentOS via activerecord http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/03/to-use-sql-server-2000-from-centos-via-activerecord/ http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/03/to-use-sql-server-2000-from-centos-via-activerecord/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:17:11 +0000 horace http://ho.race.hk/blog/?p=509 read more »]]> installation:

yum install freetds-devel
yum install unixODBC-devel

gem install tiny_tds -v 0.4.5
gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter -v 2.3.24

ruby script:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'thread'
require 'tiny_tds'
require 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter'

...

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(  
  :adapter => 'sqlserver',
  :host => hostname,
  :username => username,
  :password => password,  
  :database => database,
  :timeout => 60000)
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Download

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]]> http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/office-board-theme/feed/ 0 Tutorials http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/how-to-make-a-theme/ http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/how-to-make-a-theme/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:28:24 +0000 horace http://ho.race.hk/blog/?p=485 How to make themes:

How to install a theme:

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]]> http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/analog-clock-theme/feed/ 0 To disable Anti Alias in Textmate 2 http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/to-disable-anti-alias-in-textmate-2/ http://ho.race.hk/blog/2012/02/to-disable-anti-alias-in-textmate-2/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:33 +0000 horace http://ho.race.hk/blog/?p=435 To disable anti alias in TextMate 2:

defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview disableAntiAlias -bool YES
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It’s now on AppStore, and also reviewed by Beautiful Pixels.

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Preview:

]]> http://ho.race.hk/blog/2011/12/timer-under-construction/feed/ 0 How to exclude a sub-directory when using zip -r in Linux http://ho.race.hk/blog/2011/11/how-to-exclude-a-sub-directory-when-using-zip-r-in-linux/ http://ho.race.hk/blog/2011/11/how-to-exclude-a-sub-directory-when-using-zip-r-in-linux/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:17:08 +0000 horace http://ho.race.hk/blog/?p=404 The trick is to double-quote the sub-directory to be excluded:

 zip -r blog_20111108 blog -x "blog/public/assets/*"
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LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
# LoadModule fastcgi_module     libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so
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