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Correctly handling redirects
I’m in the process of consolidating all my work scattered across the WWW to www.ronaldbradford.com As part of the process I was originally redirecting this to my present blog but I was not doing it the correct way.
Read moreMySQL Monitoring 101 – Graph your results
The problem Hands up those that don’t monitor their production MySQL web server. I’m a little surprised by this, but I’ve visited several clients that have absolutely no monitoring other then “the customers will tell us when something is wrong”.
Read moreMicrosoft, Yahoo and Open Source
There has been plenty of press this week regarding Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo. This week the Wall Street Journal Article From Uncertain Future To Leading Yahoo Bid has prompted me to the following observations.
Read moreSolid-State Drives Press
I read yesterday in The Wall Street Journal an interesting article in Personal Technology, “Solid-state drives challenge hard drives in speed, but not value”. While the title does sum up nothing new, the barrier to entry to embracing new technology is always cost, and early adopters may not have deeper pockets, but it’s also about being a alpha geek.
Read moreMySQL & Sun
I have been noticeably absent on my comments in this topic, something I was pinged about yet again today by another colleague. Did I have nothing to say? No. It’s just I’ve not been able to say much, or actually do anything in the past 7 days due to strong bought of the flu which has kept me in bed near 5 days straight (coincidently aligning perfectly with MySQL’s recent ACM.
Read moreCompiling MySQL 5.0.51 under Ubuntu 7.10
I’ve finally decided to work on a number of improvements in Instrumentation within the MySQL Server I’ve wanted for the first year, See What is the optimal thread specific buffer size?
Read moreWhat is the optimal thread specific buffer size?
So you want to know what join_buffer_size, sort_buffer_size, read_buffer_size and read_rnd_buffer_size values for your application should be? These MySQL thread specific buffers are variables I can never get right because there are insufficient metrics, instrumentation or even abstract details with the present MySQL Versions.
Read moreapt & dpkg Reference
I found a good reference page for Debian package management commands apt-??? and dpkg. Check out http://diablo.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/debian/apt-dpkg-ref.html
Read moreMicrosoftism’s on my MacBook
Seems Mac OS/X has not escaped the unnecessary annoyances of Windows. Below are details to unstall a product on my MacBook, following it crashing my machine a few times with the “blue screen on death” below.
Read moreSleeping in Perl for less then a second
E.g. to sleep to 100 ms. select(undef, undef, undef, 0.1);
Read moreOptimal OS Partitions
What is the optimal OS partition layout for a database server? I’ve seen so many different configurations for OS partitions of recent time, none to my satisfaction. Historically, in Unix days 20 years agao, long before RAID and SAN’s all my experiences were for strongly defined partitions.
Read moreMacBook Essential Installs
I’m being able to spend more time using my MacBook finally. The following are some essential tools I needed to install. Firefox – Browser Skype – Chat, Voice Calling Colloquy – IRC Chat VLC – Media Player for xVid Mac the Ripper – DVD Extractor Parallels – Virtualization for Windows XP
Read moreAnother new Google Maps feature – Terrain
So checking Google Maps in the past few days and I see yet another new button, this one [Terrain]
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