Archive for October, 2007

When I got home the Wii’s disc tray was glowing blue indicating that I had mail, which is good. It turned out to be another gift mail from Nintendo. Free USB keyboard support! I immediately downloaded the system update, plugged in a USB keyboard and typed a message to my brother. Fucking joy! Worked like a charm.

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Now my Ubuntu workstation, part-way upgraded to the 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” release, works almost as elegantly as my Windows machines have worked forever. My network music store now auto-mounts into my home directory when I login. Finally. I’ve been beating away at this, on and off, for bloody years. I’m just not a great sysadmin, I guess!

Method follows.

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What could I do with this?


CREATE TABLE child (
  id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_NUMBER PRIMARY KEY
, parent_table VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL
, parent_id BIGINT NOT NULL
, FOREIGN KEY parent_table REFERENCES INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables(name)
, FOREIGN KEY parent_id DEREFERENCES parent_table(id)
) ENGINE=fantasy COMMENT='Don\'t run this at home, folks!';

AND
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