first_page the funky knowledge base
personal notes from way, _way_ back and maybe today
  1. Flippant Remarks about System.Uri and System.UriBuilder
  2. gvim/vim: selected tips from the vim tip database; digraphs; VimTip 51
  3. gvim/vim: selected tips from the vim tip database; toggling case; VimTip 49
  4. gvim/vim: selected tips from the vim tip database; the r[ead] command; VimTip 40
  5. gvim/vim: flippant remarks about customizing gvim
  6. Flippant Remarks about the ConnectionStringSettings Class
  7. DreamHost: Maintaining an Offline Copy of WordPress
  8. C# 2.0 Code: Using a Generic List<T> to Build an Array from a Generic Dictionary<String, Object>
  9. PowerShell 1.x script: Toggling Servers on and off in Windows Server 2003
  10. C# 2.0 Code: Converting from IDataParameter to DbParameter[] with Array.ConvertAll<>() and an Anonymous Delegate
  11. PowerShell 1.x and CMD: Running a PowerShell Session with a Different Execution Policy
  12. CMD: A Script That Deletes Recent Document References
  13. CMD: Console Command Template
  14. Windows Server 2003: Comparison of Standard and Enterprise Editions
  15. Ivan Van Sertima editing Charles S. Finch, Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern; The African Background of Medical Science; pp. 146–147
  16. Framework (SDK) Tools: The Difference between signtool.exe and sn.exe
  17. J.E. Manchip White, Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History; Manchip White on Egyptian Chronology; p. 136
  18. J.E. Manchip White, Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History; Manchip White on “the absolute monarchy of the Old Kingdom” and the “cheerful,” “gay” Peasant; pp. 126–127, 132
  19. J.E. Manchip White, Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History; Manchip White on the History of Money in Ancient Egypt; p. 124
  20. bell hooks, Art on My Mind: visual politics; Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat; bell hooks on Basquiat in “African-American art history”; pp. 36, 38
  21. bell hooks, Art on My Mind: visual politics; Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat; bell hooks on “Madison Avenue Primitive”; pp. 35–36
  22. Krishna Kaur; Ten Bodies in Kundalini Yoga
  23. Krishna Kaur; Kundalini Yoga Mantra for Cultivating the Power of Communication
  24. Krishna Kaur; Kundalini Yoga Mantra for Heart Strength
  25. Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya; Chapter 7: Sex Life Among Young People; Keynatta on the Regulation of Sexuality; pp. 149–153
  26. Ezrah Aharone, Pawned Sovereignty; Part I, III Fallacies of Democracy and Voting; Aharone on “American” Slaves; pp. 64–65
  27. Ezrah Aharone, Pawned Sovereignty; III Plutocracy Disguised as Democracy; Aharone on U.S. Dollars as Fiat Money; p.98
  28. James Henry Breasted, The Conquest of Civilization; XIX Alexander the Great; Breasted on the Legend of Egyptian Validation at "the shrine of Amon"; pp. 415–416
  29. Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya; Chapter 6: Initiation of Boys and Girls; Kenyatta on the custom of irua (clitoridectomy); pp. 125–126
  30. Ivan van Sertima (Editor), Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Anta Diop; Origin of the Ancient Egyptians; Diop on the Melanin Dosage Test; p. 41
  31. Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism; Chapter 8: Birth of the Different Types of States; Diop on the Four Types of States and the Absence of Indigenous Military Aristocracy in Ancient Africa; pp. 129–132
  32. ASP.NET: “The Global.asax file does not raise events in an ASP.NET 2.0 application”; KB Article 937095
  33. Windows XP: Disabling Adobe Photo Downloader with Adobe Reader 8; apdproxy.exe; msconfig; Tweak UI
  34. Heinrich Schliemann
  35. James Henry Breasted
  36. James Henry Breasted, The Conquest of Civilization; XXV: World Dominion and Degeneracy; Breasted on Roman Governors and Publicans (c. 200B.C.); pp. 515–516
  37. Agape Love; Several Greek Words for "Love"
  38. Flippant Remarks about Identifying a Nullable Type
  39. William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage; Chapter III: Achieving Womanhood; Grier and Cobbs on Negro Ugliness; pp. 52
  40. William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage; Chapter V: Marriage and Love; Grier and Cobbs on Skin Color Consciousness; p. 77
  41. William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage; Chapter V: Marriage and Love; Grier and Cobbs on a Common Pattern in Marriage; p. 75
  42. William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage; Chapter III: Achieving Womanhood; Grier and Cobbs on the Natural Hairdo; p. 45
  43. Ali A. Mazrui, The Africans: A Triple Heritage; Chapter Nine: In Search of Stability; Mazrui on Julius Nyerere on Traditional African Democracy; p.180
  44. Ali A. Mazrui, The Africans: A Triple Heritage; Chapter Three: Africa’s Identity: The Indigenous Personality; Mazrui on African Classlessness and Democracy; p.75
  45. Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa, Political Organization in Black Africa; Diop on Monarchic and Tribal Africa
  46. Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa, Political Organization in Black Africa; Diop on Matrilineal Succession in Ghana
  47. Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa, Political Organization in Black Africa; Diop on Mossi Constitutional Monarchy
  48. Visual Studio 2005: Flippant Remarks about Application Settings
  49. UCLA MCCS: PODS 3.x Schema Generation and Deployment
  50. "Sacred Ibis" and Our Word for "discover"
  51. Visual Studio 2005 VB.NET Windows Forms Problem: Unable to Select Program or Sub Main to Start Windows Application; Enable application framework
  52. Swami Vivekananda
  53. "Picture superiority effect, pictograms, & culture"
  54. .NET Framework 3.0: Highlights of November 2006 CTP Release Notes
  55. WPF XAML: Reading Properties.Settings Data
  56. WordProcessingML: Flippant remarks about the run element
  57. VMware Workstation 5.x Problem: VMware Tools Does not Work with Ubuntu Running a Kernel Greater than 2.6.15-27-386
  58. Windows Server 2003 Firewall: the Ports to Open that allow IIS to Receive Requests; Windows Firewall
  59. XSLT in .NET: Default Security Used for xsl:include Element; XmlUrlResolver
  60. XSLT Problem: The String "x­mlns" Can Mangle Output
  61. Ubuntu/Debian: How to change the hostname or machine name
  62. Windows Server 2003: Installing OpenSSH
  63. Windows Virtual Machine PROBLEM: VMWare Sounds Loud Beeps
  64. Windows Server 2003 PROBLEM: IIS Throws 404 Errors for ASP.NET 2.0 Applications; ASP.NET 2.x Web Service Extension Not Installed
  65. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 2; Introducing and integrating Hibernate; 2.3 Basic configuration
  66. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 2; Introducing and integrating Hibernate; 2.2 Understanding the architecture
  67. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 2; Introducing and integrating Hibernate; 2.1 “Hello World” with Hibernate
  68. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Understanding object/relational persistence; 1.4 Object/relational mapping
  69. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Understanding object/relational persistence; 1.3 Persistence layers and alternatives
  70. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Understanding object/relational persistence; 1.2 The paradigm mismatch
  71. Hibernate in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Understanding object/relational persistence; 1.1 What is persistence?
  72. T-SQL Code: A Function for Checking for the Existence of an Object; fItemExists()
  73. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.2 The Request Processing Lifecycle
  74. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.7 Messages; 2.1.8 Navigation
  75. T-SQL: User-Defined Function Structure; Table/Set Form
  76. T-SQL: User-Defined Function Structure; Scalar Form
  77. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.6 Events and listeners
  78. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 SDK: Post-Installation Message
  79. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.5 Converters
  80. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.4 Backing beans
  81. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.2 Renderers; 2.1.3 Validators
  82. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1.1 User interface components
  83. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 2; JSF Fundamentals; 2.1 The key pieces of the pie
  84. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.5.4 Configuration with faces-config.xml; 1.5.5 Configuration with web.xml
  85. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.5.2 Dissecting goodbye.jsp; 1.5.3 Examining the HelloBean class
  86. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.5.1 Dissecting hello.jsp
  87. Ubuntu Hardware: Setting Up a New Monitor; Flat Panel Monitor
  88. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.4 Components Everywhere
  89. XSLT Snippet: Degrading XHTML for Macromedia/Adobe Flash; inner_xhtml Template
  90. Tomcat 5.x INFO Message: "INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: ..."
  91. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.3.1 Why do we need frameworks?; 1.3.2 She's a Model 2; 1.3.3 JSF, Struts, and other frameworks
  92. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.2.4 JavaBeans; 1.2.5 JSP
  93. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces; 1.2.2 Servlets; 1.2.3 Portlets
  94. JavaServer Faces in Action Notes: Chapter 1; Introducing JavaServer Faces
  95. bash command: Comparing Two Folders with diff
  96. UCLA MCCS Data Migration Project
  97. UCLA MCCS CVS Root
  98. SQL Server 2005 PROBLEM: Using the ADO.NET DbCommand.ExecuteScalar() Method Truncates at 2033 Characters
  99. ASP.NET ERROR in Visual Studio: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled. Please see Help for assistance."
  100. JavaScript Code: Dom() Class; Abandoned Code