Updated Android SDK released

August 18, 2008

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

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Billix

August 7, 2008

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 [...]

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A Defragmentation Script to Optimize Fragmented Tables in MySQL

August 7, 2008

I wrote a BASH script that will defragment / defrag any fragmented tables.  It’s pretty tidy little script in BASH;  you can supply usernames and passwords, and even run it against remote MySQL databases. Here’s an example of it’s output: root@lit [~]# mysqlDefragmenter [x] MySQL defragmenter v0.7.4 [x] Written by Phil Dufault ( http://www.dufault.info/ ) [...]

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MySQL Tuner

August 7, 2008

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.  It’s an awesome script, and I recommend using it on any MySQL server you can find. Since I’ve written this post, mysqltuner has earned a permanent spot in my [...]

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Making SSH connections to your frequent remote hosts faster with ControlMaster

August 5, 2008

I have recently learned of a new OpenSSH feature that allows you to reuse your  existing SSH connections to hosts.  Since you’re saving time on the encryption handshake, you connect to where you want, faster. If you want to enable this functionality on a per-host basis, then you can setup your ~/.ssh/config file like this: [...]

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Hotswap a SCSI, SAS, or SATA drive in Linux

August 4, 2008

There seems to be not a lot of information on Google about this, thus, I post. At my work, the majority of our servers have hot-swappable drive bays — however, Linux doesn’t usually automatically notice the drive is gone. Worse, sometimes it doesn’t even notice new drives hooked up. Now, SCSI and SAS both support [...]

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Typespeed

July 31, 2008

It came up in IRC today that there was a typing game called typespeed — one of the categories is “Unix Commands.”  Better yet, this supports head to head networking mode, so you can play against people in your office, I didn’t even need to edit my firewall configuration on Ubuntu. Playing your coworkers is [...]

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Installing libtidy in PHP5 on a CentOS cPanel server

July 26, 2008

To install libtidy in PHP5, it’s really quite easy. Make sure your /tmp directory doesn’t have something like noexec set on it, otherwise this would be more difficult. Here’s the install command: pecl install http://pecl.php.net/get/tidy-1.2.tgz Find where your main php.ini file is: root@server [~]# php -i|grep php.ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/lib Loaded Configuration [...]

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Sysadmin day

July 25, 2008

Today is the annual Sysadmin Day, so take the time and honour your hard working local sysadmins that keep things running. http://www.sysadminday.com/ Update: My boss bought me lunch as a present.  Hooray!

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Another update regarding Android on the Vogue

July 25, 2008

This in from Martin’s page: Update(24/7/08): I’ve repackaged the files in android.zip and updated a few things. Now you don’t need to copy 256M to your SD card, just put system.gz and data.gz on the card and the first time it boots they will be extracted to system.img and data.img (thanks to Kevin’s initramfs installer [...]

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