February 2006

Vitriol

by damonp on February 28, 2006

in Dictionary

n.
Bitterly abusive feeling or expression.

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Convert SVN BDB Repositories to FSFS

by damonp on February 27, 2006

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cd /svn/repos/path
svnadmin dump reponame > reponame.dump
mv reponame reponame_bdb
svnadmin create reponame –fs-type fsfs
svnadmin load reponame < reponame.dump

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MySQL5 JOIN Syntax Changes

23 February 2006

Changes in the SQL parser in MySQL5 have exposed previously unnoticed errors in several open source applications I support recently. These changes are to comply more accurately with the SQL:2003 standard. A good thing. The bad thing is most apps throw a db error when they encounter a JOIN query of this specific form. Until [...]

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Are You Using Google Conversion Tracking?

23 February 2006

Why? Sure they give you some free analytics to see how well your ad budget is doing. They also control how much each click costs you. Its not a far stretch to see that if I know you are making a $100 sale off of a $0.10 click, I need to charge you more for [...]

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Mint Pepper DLoads v0.72

22 February 2006

DLoads v0.72 is released. This is a minor bugfix release. Changelog: Moved mint->record below file delivery routine, corrects a header error on some servers Added ini_set() to turn off output compression, if on Added configuration var to set Abbr chars for long file name chopping in mint display Download: DLoads v0.72 Full DLoads Pepper infomation: [...]

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PHPCow Customer Support

21 February 2006

PHPCow itself seems to work OK if you can figure out how to get it to do what you want it to. There is very little documentation to speak of. Their support is the most unprofessional support I have ever encountered. They were repeatedly rude and unknowledgeable. I googled them after the fact and found [...]

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OSX Viruii – The First Two in the Same Weekend

20 February 2006

OSX has gone from no known virus threats on Friday morning, to two threats on Monday morning. What a weekend! From the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center: OSX.Leap.A OSX.Inqtana.A Both are low risk viruii. OSX.Leap.A is a worm that spreads through iChat. OSX.Inqtana.A is a worm that spreads through the BlueTooth system. At this time, OSX.Inqtana.A [...]

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Nmap Tricks

20 February 2006

Scan all reserved TCP ports on ip address nmap -v ip address Scan all reserved TCP ports on ip address and try to detect software and version listening on open ports nmap -v -sV ip address Default is to output to stdout. You can pipe to a file with: nmap -v ip address > filename [...]

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Appellation

15 February 2006

n. A name, title, or designation. The act of naming.

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Will Oracle Make a Play for Zend?

14 February 2006

Oracle recently bought out Sleepycat Software, the creators of the Berkley DB. Berkley DB is the most widely used open source database engine. Last October, Oracle acquired InnoDB another major database engine. The MySQL server application supports several different database engines. Two of these being Berkley DB and InnoDB. MySQL was also recently working with [...]

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