We all know Tux as the Linux penguin, and those that know me, understand how much I hate Microsoft, and that my [core logo][1], as shown down the right of my blog with Windows Sucks is what I preach. Well I’ve now had this made into a logo on tee-shirts.
As part of searching for images, I’ve come across a few alternative images that I really like, Tux and the BSD demon, Tux and the loosing Windows and MSN logo. You can find more of my collected works at Tux Images
Changing the password of a MySQL account that an application uses was hard before MySQL 8.0. It is easy in MySQL 8.0 and later, thanks to two clauses of ALTER USER: RETAIN CURRENT PASSWORD and DISCARD OLD PASSWORD.
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Read moreVillageSQL published Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp . The extension serves the Model Context Protocol from inside the database, so an agent talks to MySQL over Streamable HTTP without a sidecar holding a credential.
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