Archive for March, 2006
Warming up to Kubuntu
Kubuntu has been a rough road so far. Most things work right out of the box but it’s missing a way to install most of the common dev packages. The stable tree seems to be missing a lost of common libs (ones that are even available in suse). I had to install all the auto*, [...]
Searching for a new distro… again..
SuSE 10 has failed me. It seems that every new suse release is further behind in kde package version and is lacking another geek package. I end up putting in extra suse sources and searching all over the net for things I want to use. Sorry SuSE, my old friend, it’s time to say good [...]
MySQL Snapshot from a full disk. Tar over ssh
Have you ever tried to take a snapshot from a mysql server only to find an hour later that the box ran out of disk space when trying to create the tar ball? An easy solution is to use ssh to pipe the tar data directly to another server without it even touching the disk. [...]
3 Minute MySQL (tuning)
While reading planetmysql.org I ran across this Tune a MySQL server in 5 minutes.. I think that entry is really missing a lot in terms of actual tuning for the real world. Also I thought max_user_connections is number of connections per hour. Since I only have 3 minutes I can’t look it up! You probably [...]