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MySQL Cheatsheet By Example

Published by Tyler on 24 December 2007 in Internet, Linux, Open Source and Personal. 2 Comments 1 Star

(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

Tech-Evangelist has put together an excellent cheatsheet for MySQL. There’s lots of other MySQL cheatsheets out there, but this one is unique in the fact that it gives examples of usage rather than just snippets of code.
This cheatsheet also includes a summary of commonly used MySQL data types, which will be really helpful to [...]

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How To: Cisco VPN Client On Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Published by Tyler on 17 May 2007 in Internet, Linux, Noteworthy and Open Source. 167 Comments 1 Star

(19 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5)

IMPORTANT UPDATE, SEE BELOW
So, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn beta about 2 months ago. I installed it on my notebook and one of my workstations, both of which had Windows installed previously. I’m not dual booting on those machine, they’re 100% Ubuntu now.

After getting everything setup and running nicely, I realized I [...]

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Some Uptimes

Published by Tyler on 24 October 2006 in Internet, Linux and Personal. 0 Comments 1 Star

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I like to know how long each of my boxes have been up and running. I really don’t care so much about Windows PC’s, but I really like knowing how long my Linux boxes have been up. Notifications of uptimes are very nice, if a server goes down, I’ll get an email letting [...]

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MySQL Is Huge

Published by Tyler on 19 September 2006 in Internet, Linux, Personal and Work. 3 Comments 1 Star

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

Take note of this graphic. Notice there’s been 3,775,826 queries processed by that MySQL server in a little more than 5 days. Nothing too impressive right? Right.

We know MySQL can handle many more queries than that in a much shorter period of time. What amazes me is how well MySQL performs [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 5

Published by Tyler on 18 September 2006 in Internet, Linux, Open Source and Personal. 0 Comments 1 Star

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Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 5 is here. Lots of updates to existing packages. Not many packages were upgraded. Patrick is giving the scouts honor that this will be the last RC before 11.0 final.
Head on over to the Slackware Blog to have a look at the full changelog entry. Hopefully we [...]

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Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 4

Published by Tyler on 5 September 2006 in Linux and Personal. 0 Comments 1 Star

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Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 4 is out! This release sees kernel 2.4.33.3 included as the default. Soon after RC4 was made, Patrick made another small update to the ChangeLog:
Sun Sep 3 19:59:47 CDT 2006
a/udev-097-i486-8.tgz: Fixed a missing ‘[’ in rc.udev. Thanks to
guilherme for pointing out the [...]

Popularity: 4% [?]