More Stupidity from My Lecturer
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
I’ll go straight to the point: we were trying to insert data into a Microsoft Access database through an OleDb connection in ASP.Net. My lecturer was probably stuck in VB6 (or maybe .Net 1.1) era, where the SQL syntax she asked us to use was something like:
Insert Into TableName (Column1, Column2) .. You won’t spot the mistake if you’re too used to Access SQL or VB6. But what really pissed me off was that my lecturer interpreted the error message (which read something like “Syntax Error in INTO statement”) very interestingly. She claims that Windows XP’s user access rights prevented us from inserting data into the database. Oh.. My.. God.. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: general programming, rants
Alienated
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
In a word, that’s how I feel most of the time. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just my environment, or is it just me, me, me. You know, I’m a geek. I’m almost one, and might as well be one, since it’s probably the only thing I’m good at. I’m brought up with one thing stamped in my head: “be productive”. I feel so different from the people around me. At this point of time, my focus is only on books. The only other thing that interests me is the Imagine Cup, and hence, .Net related stuff. Yeah, all the geeky stuff.
People around me like Dota, World Cup betting, playing, entertainment and celebrities. I happen to be the opposite. I don’t play much games (only NFS), I don’t bet, I watch football if I’ve got nothing better to do, and I find entertainment talk boring. The only stuff that I watch (other than movies and comedies) are Channel 9 videos.
There’s like an ocean between me and most of my friends. Nothing much in common, hardly any common topics to chat about. Classmates? Assignment talk. Is it just me? Sometimes I think so. But there are some great fellas I get along with too y’know.. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: life
Funny Things ’bout PC-Cillin
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Didn’t blog for some days since my mood was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work I had to attend to. Okay, okay, maybe I was just plain lazy :p. Anyway, I ran out of hard disk space on C drive recently. I had 20 gigs allocated to C and it really had me wondering what the hell did I install in there. Luckily for me, I had this nifty little tool called jDiskReport that summarizes disk usage.
To my horror, Trend Micro’s PC-Cillin Internet Security 2006 took up 6 freaking gigs. Wtf~ I thought, it’s just a freaking anti-virus! I uninstalled it, and several files remained in the folder. Ah, there’s the culprit. They were funnily named files with extensions just as mystifying, each taking up hundreds of MBs. It’s been a day of two after deleting them and re-installing PC-Cillin. I checked the folder recently and discovered those pesky “temporary” files again. I selected them and hit Shift + Del, expecting a warning that it’s still in use by a program. Surprisingly, the file was gone; no warnings. That would probably mean it’s not actively used. Doesn’t it know how to keep those file sizes a little more reasonable? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: software
