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3rd blood donation

Phil Dufault — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:49:29 +0000

I did my 3rd blood donation in Canada today. Again, like my last post, I’d like to encourage any Canadians that read my blog to go out and schedule a donation to the Canadian Blood Services, it’s a worthwhile experience that can save someone’s life. It’s free, it’ll take an hour of your time, and [...]

Blood donation in Canada

Phil Dufault — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:47:36 +0000

I did my 2nd blood donation in Canada today. I’d like to encourage any Canadian’s that read my blog to go out and schedule a donation to the Canadian Blood Services, it’s a worthwhile experience that can save someone’s life. It’s free, it’ll take an hour of your time, and you get juice and cookies. [...]

Android v1.0 released

Phil Dufault — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:40:59 +0000

For anybody that cares, Android v1.0 has been released along with the T-Mobile G1 handset running Android on it. The future is finally here — I can hardly wait. Here’s the download site: http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html Their download page hasn’t been updated yet, but here’s the link to the SDKs: http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r1.zip http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk-windows-1.0_r1.zip I’m very excited now.

Enable date-stamp in your .bash_history file

Phil Dufault — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:07:22 +0000

While it’s easily cleared by a malicious person, this can easily extend the usefulness of your history file with the information of when you ran that command. This works in bash v3 and up. If you’d like to add the timestamping to all users on the machine, the file you’d want to edit is probably /etc/profile. If [...]

Android for the Vogue package updates to newest SDK

Phil Dufault — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:56:19 +0000

Martin (or dzo) has released another update for the Vogue, updating his release to the newest SDK available from Google, which was made available from last monday. This release has broken a few custom applications made by some, as the phone keyboard now needs to be written, and the previous method used an on screen keyboard [...]

Transit directions now available via Google Maps on Windows Mobile

Phil Dufault — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:16:43 +0000

Apparently this was released without much fanfare, but Google Maps Mobile v2.2.0.16 for your Windows Mobile smartphone / pocketpc has been released, which means it now provides transit directions on the go. This makes me extremely happy, but annoyed as well, as it was released quietly — I’m even subscribed to the Google Latlong blog. Give it [...]

Updated Android SDK released

Phil Dufault — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:42 +0000

A new, updated Android SDK was released today. Get it here: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html

Billix

Phil Dufault — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:57:06 +0000

I wanted to mention that I’ve been looking for something like for this a bit — a USB key that comes with a way to install multiple Linux distributions. While at work, we primarily use Gentoo, we still have a Ubuntu server or CentOS install to do occasionally, and it would be nice to have [...]

A Script to Optimize Fragmented Tables in MySQL

Phil Dufault — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:33:40 +0000

I wrote a BASH script that will run “optimize table” on any table fragmented. it’s pretty tidy, and you can supply usernames and passwords, and even run it against remote MySQL databases. Here’s an example of it’s output: root@lit [~]# mysqlFragFinder MySQL fragmentation finder (and fixer) v0.7.2, written by Phil Dufault ( http://www.dufault.info/ ) Found 59 databases Checking someforum_forum … [...]

MySQL Tuner

Phil Dufault — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:15:08 +0000

I’ve been using this for the past two weeks: MySQL Tuner I’ve used on servers running on MySQL 4.0, or 5.1 lately to tweak their preformances. Itt’s an awesome script, and I recommend using it on any MySQL server you can find.