Archive for the 'Software' Category

MySQL Unique Key Pairs

This is one of those things that is easy to do, but I frequently forget because of how little I deal with SQL syntax. Essentially, there are times when you want two fields to be unique together. For example, you might have a table with a city field and a state field. It’s okay to [...]

I have used Pidgin with my main Gmail account for quite a while, but I ran into some trouble today configuring it for a GoogleTalk account from “Google Apps for your Domain.” So, here are my quick notes with screenshots to show how to set up this type of GoogleTalk account in Pidgin (screenshots are [...]

My Asus N50-V notebook that I bought a few weeks ago came with Windows Vista on it. I knew that I’d dual boot Vista and Ubuntu, but I figured I would just wait the few days before the newest version of Ubuntu came out toward the end of April before installing it. That gave me [...]

Various WordPress Issues

I’ve mentioned a few times here and there that I am working on my own blogging software. I had actually hoped to be switched over to it by the middle of this month, but I’ve been working two jobs (and doing that crazy school thing), so I haven’t had as much free time as I’d [...]

Various Error Screenshots

These are just various errors that I’ve come across recently. I think all of these are excellent examples as to how NOT to show errors