Boycott these companies - they support human rights violations

Boycott these companies - they support human rights violations
Here is the link to the sponsors for this year's Olympic Games in Beijing. As I wrote before, if freedom and human rights mean anything to us, we owe it ourselves and to those who are suffering from censorship and oppression to do something - anythin... (more in the full post)

How to Drop a Column

• Discover whether there is a constraint;

DECLARE @ConstraintName NVARCHAR(50);
SELECT @ConstraintName = [name]

FROM sys.objects o

WHERE o.[parent_object_id]=OBJECT_ID('Schema.TableName')

AND o.type='D'

AND o.[name] LIKE '%First5LettersOfColumnName%'

• If there is, remove it;

IF NOT (@ConstraintName IS NULL)

   EXECUTE ('ALTER TABLE Schema.TableName 
   DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @ConstraintName)
GO

• Remove the column

IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.columns WHERE [name]='ColumnName 
   AND [object_id]=OBJECT_ID('Schema.TableName'))

      ALTER TABLE Schema.TableName

      DROP COLUMN ColumnName;

GO

Journalists 'hack' journalists at internet security conference - Telegraph.co.uk

/n software discount code
I usually don't post discount codes (not that I have many anyway, when I receive one I try to spread the love), but this one is good for developers: 20% off /n software Red Carpet subscription.

I use /n software on the Geekzone server for some IP stuff. The company has some cool piece of software and the subscription gives you access to all components for your development environment.

Of course if you buy I get an extra 3 month in my own subscription. So let's go for it. The promotion code to get your 20% off /n software Red Carpet subscription is "66275696471637D604765656B6A7F6E656E236F6E2E6A7".

Richard Stallman in Auckland: On copyright in a networked world
I just came back from Richard Stallman's lecture at the University of Auckland. I was surprised by the amazing interest in his talk, the lecture hall being entirely jam-packed full, people standing along the back and all the way out into the hallway.... (more in the full post)