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WordPress Blog Upgrade Time

Time to Upgrade my WordPress Blog software from Version 1.5.2 to Version 2.0.2 after my latest spam attacks and Combating Blog Spam attempt. Here is what I did. cd /home/arabx/www tar cvfz blog.

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MySQL :: Developer Zone Quick Polls

I don’t get to the MySQL Developer Zone main page often enough. In thinking about what pages I view everyday or regularly, it doesn’t rate as high as Planet MySQL , MySQL Forums or even the MySQL Forge.

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VMPlayer Installation under Linux

Install rpm -ivh VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm Configure $ /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Player are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.

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FireFox Java Plugin

Getting the Java (JRE) plugin working in FireFox under Linux. cd /opt/firefox-1.5/plugins rm libjavaplugin_oji.so ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . MozDev Reference

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Latest Library Editions

I’ve had a bit of a windfall of books in the past 2 weeks. I purchased 2 books for the flights to/from the US, picked up an Amazon order on some Database Reference Material for some writings I’m doing, and quite a bounty at the MySQL Users Conference.

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Installing a new USB External Drive

I’ve decide to move from CentOS to Ubuntu as the Linux Distro on my laptop, so it was time to do a full backup to a new USB external drive.

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A Post MySQL Conference review. The 4 F’s

Finally back home after some R&R at Yosemite before leaving the US. In conclusion, to sum up my experience of the 4th Annual MySQL Users Conference “Excellent”. Here’s my take. Friends, Functionality & New Features, the Future.

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The Answer is: PBXT

Round 2. Question 2? From the MySQL Quiz Show. (you had to be there)

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MySQL Stored Procedures Performance

Another one of the sessions at the MySQL Users Conference I attended was Tuning MySQL5 SQL and Stored Procedures by Guy Harrison from Quest Software. A global company with 6000+ customers.

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Some photos from the MySQL Users Conference

I didn’t take any photos myself at the MySQL User’s Conference. In reflection, perhaps I should. I did make it into some photos however. A few of them here. <td> <a href="http://jcole.

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Mark Shuttleworth

Thursday’s Keynote speaker at the MySQL Conference was Mark Shuttleworth talking on The Ubuntu Project: Improving Collaboration in the Free Software World. Ubuntu from Canonical Ltd is fastly becoming one of the most popular Linux Distributions, based on Debian.

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My MySQL Conference Presentation

My talk at the MySQL Users Conference went well. MySQL For Oracle Developers was part of two talks, the second was by Mark Leith on <a href"http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8465" target="_blank">MySQL For Oracle DBA’s.

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Hacking MySQL Source improvements

Further to my earlier post Hacking MySQL Source (in a good way) in which I was having a compilation problem when re-compiling MySQL source (i.e. tt worked the first build, but failed on subsequent re-compiles, even with no changes).

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Contributing to the MySQL Community

Everybody can contribute to the MySQL Open Source Community. Here are some ideas: You can start with completely a MySQL Conference Survey form (those forms that we are all avoiding). You can download, evaluate and test newer versions of MySQL Products.

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