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Linux One Liner – Security
Here are a few useful one liners for Linux Security. View current packet filtering rules. (i.e. what can and can’t access your computer. <br /> $ iptables -L<br /> On older distros, iptables may not be in place.
Read moreLinux One Liner – Using the manual
For users of Linux regardless of the skill level, using the OS manual is invaluable. Frank gives an example using crontab at Viewing a specific version of a man page , but as with Linux there is always more then one way to skin a cat.
Read moreSome of Mike’s Useful Sites
I haven’t seen any blogging in my normal readings from Mike lately, so taking a quick look directly at his blog. He has certainly been busy in other areas. Some great tibbits and websites.
Read moreLinux One Liner – Calculating Used Diskspace
You can easily see the state of diskspace used with the command. <br /> $ df<br /> However, often you want to know where most of the diskspace is being taken.
Read moreNew Category – Linux One Liners
I came across Frank’s blog Programming – Powerful One liners – “What can a one liner do for you?” Great Idea, I often use one line Linux commands and in my current consulting role, I’m being asked more and more Linux questions, which often result in a one Line answer.
Read moreMySQL Ideas
Seems I have over time, thought of many ideas, jotted some notes on some, and even done some work, but everybody knows that “home projects” can take a long time.
Read moreWrestling the Anaconda
I’ve decided to affectionally call the MySQL Workbench Product “The Anaconda”. It’s been a wrestle so far to get all the features and functionality I wanted in this product. Of course I’d much rather have seen this product at say version 0.
Read moreHow I work
My work life is really fragmented at present, so I’ve decided a split approach in answer to Dave Rosenberg’s How I Work–what I have learned so far . What is your role?
Read moreA better VNC
I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench.
Read moreImproving Open Source Databases – WordPress
As part of both my UltimateLAMP side project, and my greater involvement with MySQL Workbench, I’ve been wanting to review and document the database schemas of Open Source products. Indeed, as part of discussions with Mike Zinner of MySQL AB at the recent MySQL Users Conference, I suggested an idea used in the Java World, for example by Clover and Agitar, where to promote the usefullness of their respective tools (in this case code coverage), they provide results against Open Source Products.
Read moreGoogle Talk
Google has like many before it such as AOL, Yahoo and Skype created it’s own online chat program, which you can run with a windows program and which is very neatly integrated into Gmail.
Read moreSeaching Google in Klingon or Elmer Fudd
Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon.
Read moreThe GWT!
New to the AJAX vertical space is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) released the the Sun Java One Conference last week. AJAX (“Asynchronous Javascript and XML”) isn’t new, infact the underlying requirements within AJAX, the DHTML, DOM manipulation and XMLHttpRequest were available in 1997.
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