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I do basically the same thing. If a method tries to start a transaction when a transaction is already open then it's immediately rejected. I don't really like automatic transaction…

Nice idea to write that stuff down. Something that flummoxed me for a while was how Pokemon Yellow does the Pikachu sound, since the Game Boy doesn't really support sample-based au…

For what it's worth, Netflix has a higher score on my machine than YouTube.

Followed by a GameBoy emulator if you're feeling a bit more adventurous. It's big enough to be challenging, but small enough that it can easily be done by one person.

We use Hibernate at work and I've seen it generate some pretty gnarly queries (like, tens of kilobytes of just SQL). People like to rag on Oracle, but it's kind of impressive that …

Firefox ESR 60 has been released at the same time, and is more or less identical to the non-ESR version. ESR makes a lot of sense for corporate networks, even if it can be a drag b…

CentOS has a great utility called needs-restarting which finds processes which have been updated and need to be restarted. I just stick it in a cron job and I have an email waiting…