Looks like the Linux Outlaws have started up their own Planet: OutlawPla.net.

• linux
• general

The first site hosted on the new server is up: make sure to take a look at Lena's Adult Day Services!

• general

The Arduino, as described by the Arduino Homepage, is "an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software." What that means to you may differ with your experience, but to me the Arduino is a little chunk of Italian-made circuit board that can make LEDs blink, can tell how bright the ambient light is, can run motors and mechanisms, and otherwise make electronic components do cool stuff.

• arduino

This maddening issue took quite a while to figure out, so I sincerely hope I can save somebody the time by documenting it here.

• php
• server
• sql

I recently came upon an extremely quick, simple, and brutal to insert a file into a MS SQL database using only the query editor and a hex editor:

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