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MacBook 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
Another new Google Maps feature – Terrain
So checking Google Maps in the past few days and I see yet another new button, this one [Terrain]
Mac Printscreen
There are many things I’m coming to grip with on my new MacBook. One is missing buttons on the screen, like Page Up, Page Down and PrntSc. Well I at least found out from Eric that I can get Print Screen with the following keyboard syntax.
Procedure privileges
I came across a problem on site yesterday. In moving the development environment to a new server and creating more appropriate permissions for users (they were using ALL on *.*) I found that the Java application would crash with a NullPointerException.
MySQL under Mac OS/X 10.5
Time to install MySQL on my new MacBook . $ cd /opt $ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/ $ tar xvfz mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz $ cd mysql-5.0.45-ox10.4-i686 $ scripts/mysql_install_db Installing MySQL system tables... 071129 22:10:48 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /opt/mysql-5.
iPhone bug
I discovered a bug on my iPhone. The issue was around Daylight saving. Thanks to Dock I was able to take screenshots which was much better then photos. In Calendar when you select 1am on the scrollers, you get 1am as the start time.
My Hacked iPhone
I installed Dock on my iPhone and it gave a very handy and wanted Screen Shot function. So now I can show my present iPhone screen. It looks like: Apart from the obvious differences of different and more icons, I have by background behind icons, and I’ve turned off the text, so you need to know the icon means.
Installing Skype
A fresh install of my laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 after stuff just didn’t work causes pains sometimes of the installed programs. Skype being one of them. Goto Skype for Linux and get the Ubuntu installer.
My MacBook
I arrived home last night at midnight from San Francisco to a pile of mail and a number of packages. My shiny new MacBook had arrived. It was rather ridiculous that I wanted a HDD upgrade and I could no buy it in the store.
MySQL at Oracle Open World
Yes, it may seem rather strange to the readers but MySQL has a booth at this week’s Oracle Open World 2007 and I’m here in San Francisco Wednesday and Thursday. If your in SF come in and say hi.
Using MySQL Table Checksum
The MySQL Table Checksum , part of the MySQL Toolkit (having to be renamed soon ) is an invaluable community tool for use with MySQL. Most sites or installations of any volume will use MySQL Replication for one purpose or another, be it for read scalability, backups, testing, upgrading etc.
Funny command line option for the day
I needed to start mysql without privileges after a database restore today, and while confirming the correct option which was –skip-grant-tables I came across an option which made me laugh.
MySQL Conference Submissions have closed
If you didn’t get your proposal in for MySQL Conference 2008 , that’s too bad. I often wondered from past conferences why submissions were needed so early, like 5 months before.
Hacking my iPhone
I’ve finally taken the plunge after wanting to for some time. This is what I did, all steps are from using the iPhone directly, no computer required. NOTE: I can’t take responsibility for anything that happens to your iPhone.