There's a good chance that the animation or cartoon game you want to download was created using Flash. Use these tips for downloading Flash files from the Internet to your hard drive. You save all Flash animations from web pages, including Flash websites, Flash game, Flash Animations, Flash Tutorials, Flash Movie Trailers, Flash Advertisements, or what ever Flash files you find in the web.

If you wish to save flash files embedded in webpages to your hard-drive for offline viewing, here is how:

Let’s say you need to drop all tables in a mysql database. How do you do that?

MySQL has DROP TABLE and DROP DATABASE but there is no command to drop all tables or truncate the database.

These are some ways to do it:

Running PHP scripts within the cron environment can be tricky!

A common technique for executing PHP scripts from a cron job is to use a command line utility like curl or wget to execute and subsequently retrieve the output of the script. Using this method, the command in your cron job would look like this:

wget http://domain.tld/script.php

TAR is the Unix Tape ARchive utility. It can be used to either store data on a streaming tape device like a DAT drive, or store files in what is commonly called a tarball file - somewhat like a pkzip file, only compression is optional.

Copying a directory tree and its contents to another filesystem using tar will preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps. A neat trick allows using tar to perform a recursive copy without creating an intermediate tar file.

To copy all of the files and subdirectories in the current working directory to the directory /target, use:

This is one of the best Lisp tutorials around.

Thanks to Peter Siebel for such a gem. If you like it even half as much as I did, buy a dead tree copy!

A usenet post by Kent M Pitman on comp.lang.lisp - Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:29:04 GMT