Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. Now you can take advantage of that delay to “undo” the message.
Publicly-traded Tencent, a leading Chinese web portal, instant message client, social network, game developer and more has exceeded billion in revenue in a single year. Tencent has done this through the use of virtual goods and other “Internet valued-added services,” like avatars, online memberships, music and community sites.
jeroen8 writes “A Dutch guy was able to build his own solar panel in his garage which is three times less expensive than mass produced solar panels currently available on European market. He bought his solar cells on eBay and created his own solar panel. His cost price is only 1.20 Euro per Watt Peak (Wp). This makes you wonder if we are not paying too much for mass-produced solar panels, which should in theory be a lot less expensive than something you create in your garage.”
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mask.of.sanity writes “Australia’s secretive Internet filter blacklist held by its communications watchdog has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000. Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator. Betfair, a billion-dollar business blocked by the blacklist, CEO Andrew Twaits was furious the government has potentially annexed tens of millions of dollars in revenue after its Betfair.com gambling site was blacklisted. The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs. Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totalling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban. The leak follows a series attacks on the watchdog in which irate users successfully lobbied for web sites to be banned, only to be threatened with an ,000 fine for publishing the link contained in the PR response. It was also revealed the watchdog can ban Web sites at a whim, with no accountability.”
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Because I use auto-increment integers in almost every table I can for the primary key, they tend to get very large very fast. This can sometimes be an annoying problem when I’m debugging an application or testing a mysql database query. They are resetable and it’s so much quicker to select from the database when you’re checking for id=3 or id=25 then id=305678.
The query to reset the auto increment primary id of your choosing is :
ALTER TABLE some_table AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;
It is also possible to set the next auto_increment number
You can do it like this :
SET insert_id=5;
Now your next mysql_insert_id() will be 5.
The first beta of Mozilla’s Fennec mobile web browser has been released for Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablets running OS2008 (“Maemo”). The beta is the twelfth development milestone and is intended to get feedback from users, testers and Web developers. The Fennec team also want to encourage add-on developers to port their existing add-ons and create..
Microsoft has insisted that the UK has chosen Internet Explorer, with the company launching IE8 into what it terms a ‘competitive market’.There is ongoing controversy over the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows – the world’s most popular operating system.
A tutorial on how to enable 3G tethering on iPhone 3.0.
Just-released Chrome 2.0 Beta features a faster Javascript engine that could be reason enough to upgrade. Google also updated the WebKit rendering platform which enables full-page zoom and three other features that will find its audience. The question is: Will this “major” new version, once it comes out of beta, fall on deaf ears?
With Internet Explorer officially arriving, TechRadar caught up with Microsoft’s John Curran to talk about IE8 and how it will cope in perhaps the most competitive market for browsers of all time.
