I got yesterday a honor award at the HP Linux Forum 2008 in Helsinki, from FLUG
(Finnish Linux user group) for "important work for the good of
Linux" and for "working to keep the code open even when part of
MySQL management has been of different opinion".
The major award went to Ubuntu Suomi for their good work in translating
Ubuntu to Finnish and helping Finnish users setting up and using
Ubuntu.
Linux.fi got
the other honor award for their work on creating a Finnish Wiki
for Linux users.
Arto Teräs, the spokesman of FLUG, said among other things, that
"MySQL was one of the killer applications that brought Linux to
the business world and to other places where Linux was not used …
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May
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2008
In Linux, there is no command which will rename a user account. If you make a mistake creating a user account, user changes their name or if user does not like his user name, there is no real easy way of going and making the change. Only thing I know you can do is to go through some files and rename user manually. Let us say that we have a user who is named joe and we want to rename him to john.
Note: you must be logged in as root to do following.
vi /etc/passwd
find joe and change it to john, save/exit
vi /etc/group
find joe and change it to john, save/exit
vi /etc/shadow
find joe and change it to john. This file is read only and you
have to force overwrite it. In vi it is :w! once saved, quit.
cd /home
mv joe john
And that should do the trick.
[Edited] Right after I posted this post, I was contacted and was told to look at utility called usermod. Read …
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2008
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You may have seen Jonathan's note on OpenSolaris, MySQL and GlassFish being available on Amazon EC2. Details on the OpenSolaris portion are available at the EC2 Blog (Welcome, Launch and New Limits), at … |
May
09
2008
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Giuseppe Maxia took this picture at JavaOne, 2008, just a couple of days ago. It shows Marten Mickos (MySQL) donning the Java DB T-Shirt and giving a friendly hug to PostgreSQL evangelist … |
May
09
2008
So it seems that Sun has made it clear that the core product will remain open source. Of course the definition of what is core and what isn't is up to Sun/MySQL to decide, but it seems that overall more things will be released as open source than if MySQL would have gone through with its planned IPO. So this is a good thing. Speaking of non core products, I really like what Mike and his team are doing in the GUI department with the workbench and their other GUI tools. However since Sun is friendly to PostgreSQL and actually also distributes SQLite (its …
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May
09
2008
Here are a few pictures from earlier this week taken at CommunityOne and day one of JavaOne.
Podcasts a comin'
In the next few days I will also be posting a bunch of podcasts I
did while in San Francisco including a bunch from key OpenSolaris folks, a post-Distro-smackdown recording, an interview
with the Fedora IcedTea guys and a chat with the JRuby
dudes.
Mr.
Finch exits -- Before …
May
08
2008
I am glad to announce the availability of the first alpha version of PDO_MYSQLND. PDO_MYSQLND is a PHP PDO driver for MySQL based on the MySQL native driver. PDO_MYSQLND 1.0.2-alpha is available for download on http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/pdo_mysqlnd_preview. Please read the announcement and check the MySQL Forge project page on PDO_MYSQLND for further information.
What is PDO_MYSQLND?
PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a data-access abstraction layer for PHP. PDO consists of a core and a rich set of database specific drivers. Traditionally there has been one PDO driver for MySQL called …
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May
08
2008
I am glad to announce the availability of the first alpha version of PDO_MYSQLND. PDO_MYSQLND is a PHP PDO driver for MySQL based on the MySQL native driver. PDO_MYSQLND 1.0.2-alpha is available for download on http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/pdo_mysqlnd_preview. Please read the announcement and check the MySQL Forge project page on PDO_MYSQLND for further information.
What is PDO_MYSQLND?
PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a data-access abstraction layer for PHP. PDO consists of a core and a rich set of database specific drivers. Traditionally there has been one PDO driver for MySQL called …
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May
08
2008
In the UAE there is a goverment enforcement of all traffic to go
through goverment proxy servers. All requests are proxied and
cached. What does this mean in the mysql world? Imagine you have
a web application that records comments to a media object. Then a
single person from the UAE makes a comment to that media object.
The UAE Cache Proxy caches the HTTP-POST. Now every person in the
country that visits your domain causes a HTTP-POST to that same
media object. From a outside view it looks like content is being
added to the system and the numbers are good. But ALL THE CONTENT
is the SAME which is not valuable to the media owner nor the DBA
who has to manage that data due to the BROKEN-CACHE-PROXY.
So how do you bust the BROKEN-CACHE-PROXY?
A simple method is to look at the contents of the last few posts
and see if the same data is being added prior to insert-but this
can be expensive at high scale-the scale that I deal …
May
08
2008
I am glad to announce the availability of the first alpha version of PDO_MYSQLND. PDO_MYSQLND is a PHP PDO driver for MySQL based on the MySQL native driver. PDO_MYSQLND 1.0.2-alpha is available for download on http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/pdo_mysqlnd_preview. Please read the announcement and check the MySQL Forge project page on PDO_MYSQLND for further information.
What is PDO_MYSQLND?
PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a data-access abstraction layer for PHP. PDO consists of a core and a rich set of database specific drivers. Traditionally there has been one PDO driver for MySQL called …
[Read more]