<?xml version="1.0"?> <project name="tartest" default="tartest" basedir="."> <target name="tartest"> <mkdir dir="tartest"/> <touch file="tartest/test.txt"/> <touch file="tartest/test.__txt"/> <touch file="tartest/test__.txt"/> <touch file="tartest/test_._txt"/> <tar destfile="tartest.tar" basedir="tartest" /> </target> </project> 

I would have expected it to actually DO pack the whole directory.

This works: ... <tar destfile="tartest.tar"> <fileset dir="tartest" defaultexcludes="false"> <include name="**/**" /> </fileset> </tar> ...

It’s the same for zip archives.

This is mostly for my reference and not the final product: vimrc

Nani?

Well apparently earlier versions of mysql supported ‘nan’ and ‘inf’ as valid float values but newer versions don’t as they abide by the SQL standard which states:

‘Thou shalt not NaN’

And thus it’s in the data [...]]]> I tried to copy a mysql database with several gigabytes of data and suddenly the receiving end chokes on a ‘nan’.

Nani?

Well apparently earlier versions of mysql supported ‘nan’ and ‘inf’ as valid float values but newer versions don’t as they abide by the SQL standard which states:

‘Thou shalt not NaN’

And thus it’s in the data but it won’t go into the new database.
Suckage ensues…

So how do you find all those NaNs to make them something useful again?

Magic!

SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `value` > 3e+40

If i understood it correctly 3e+40 is larger than maxFloat but NaN wins the comparison. The same can be used to replace all those values with something valid.

Yay!
Go nuts.

1) I have been enticed by the Nokia N900. I’m still not convinced it will deliver the kind of freedom I want, but it’s apparently a damn nice toy.

So there I was, ready to be impressed by an article about the N900 on golem.de when I realized that I could not [...]]]> Two things before I get back to learning.

1) I have been enticed by the Nokia N900.
I’m still not convinced it will deliver the kind of freedom I want,
but it’s apparently a damn nice toy.

So there I was, ready to be impressed by an article about the N900 on golem.de
when I realized that I could not watch the video.

One thing I _hate_ about the ‘Web 2.0′ is the fact that _everyone_ is using Flash video players.
I have a video player on my machine, thank you very much, and it performs much better
than anything a browser-plugin could ever deliver.

So what did I do?

This: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57038

2) Most of the things I do with a computer nowadays include a console.
Now blogging is one of them: http://ljcharm.sourceforge.net/

UPDATE: I use txt2html –extract to markup posts