Torchblog
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Oxford Geek Night 8 review
Posted by Dr J-P Stacey On 16 September 2008
The eighth Oxford Geek Night on 27 August 2008 had a musical theme, with keynote talks from music-industry geeks and even a solo guitarist alongside the more typical mix of local volunteer "microslot" talks.
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SELECT needle FROM haystack;
Posted by Dr J-P Stacey On 14 September 2008
Ever wondered just where in a complex database you stored that particular bit of information? Or ever had to reverse-engineer someone else's database, about which you know nothing with only the output from an application to guide you?
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SSH Tips and Tricks Part 2
Posted by Nick Burch On 06 September 2008
In part 2 of our SSH tips we look at the ControlMaster/ControlPath feature of OpenSSH 4, and how it allows for persistent connections and multiplexing of interactive connections in one session.
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Europe it's time to lead!
Posted by James Webster On 04 September 2008
The Time To Lead micro-site is a campaigning site for CAN Europe, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF to encourage our European representatives to set policies which will keep global warming below 2 degrees.
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SSH Tips and Tricks Part 1
Posted by Nick Burch On 03 September 2008
SSH has a number of very useful features that aren't widely known about. In this part, we look at the structure of SSH connections, and how SSH can be used for carrying and proxying network connections.
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Migrating with South
Posted by Andrew Godwin On 31 August 2008
Here at Torchbox we work on quite a few Django projects, so when we were faced with making an enterprise-level project, we had to tackle and overcome the traditional Django problem with schema migration.
