• alias skedit='open -a skEdit' is highly useful. Now I can do skedit foo.php and it opens it up. What joy with such simple things.
• Great to see Mono go into Rawhide, meaning FC5 Test 2 will have it. Now I can’t hardly wait. On PPC, if we had Xen working (upstream), life would be the ultimate breeze.
• I will not be making it to linux.conf.au 2006 in New Zealand. Despite all good attempts to get a flight leaving KL, I can’t. Well, affordably (hello coach class). Registrations however are still open. There’s a Red Hat/Fedora meetup, and Joshua Wulf would be a useful person to contact if you’re rocking up for it (email discussion still has dates
• Is there a reason Fedora disabled updatedb running by default? Now users actually need to specify yes, in /etc/updatedb.conf. Why? Was this for laptop users?
• FreeBSD ports has this nice advantage that …

OSCON 2006 has opened its call for papers. The event will be July 24-28, 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
There is a dedicated database track, and reps from various OSS databases are on the program committee. So it's up to us to make sure that there are fab MySQL sessions and tutorials!

Naturally, a number of people from MySQL AB will be there, and we're already thinking about sessions and fun events. There are also many community people who have new, funky, funny, quirky or just geeky applications and insights in MySQL, uses for MySQL, etc. This means YOU. Sure we have the MySQL Users Conference, but we also want to be visible everywhere else!

Let's get cooking: spread the word, come up with a session, submit an abstract: Submit …

OSCON 2006 has opened its call for papers. The event will be July 24-28, 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
There is a dedicated database track, and reps from various OSS databases are on the program committee. So it's up to us to make sure that there are fab MySQL sessions and tutorials!

Naturally, a number of people from MySQL AB will be there, and we're already thinking about sessions and fun events. There are also many community people who have new, funky, funny, quirky or just geeky applications and insights in MySQL, uses for MySQL, etc. This means YOU. Sure we have the MySQL Users Conference, but we also want to be visible everywhere else!

Let's get cooking: spread the word, come up with a session, submit an abstract: Submit …

Today I was asked the following question by a friend of mine.


Q: I am currently working on moving my site to a new server so if anything needs to be installed or modified on the server let me know and I will make sure that it is done on the new server.

A: YES. There are quite a few things that you should do and install on your new server to secure it.

Here are a few recommendations right on top of my head:

1. Stop unneeded services.
2. Install protection against Brute Force SSH attacks (they can be costly) [BFD]
3. Install advanced firewall in addition to the default firewall (iptables). [APF]
4. Completely disable root login and admin login. [Custom Script]. If a user then attempts login as root, kick them off the server and log …

I finally finished my interview with Kai Seidler, who is one of the people behind the very popular XAMPP project.

You can now read the interview on the MySQL Developer Zone - I hope you will enjoy it!

I finally finished my interview with Kai Seidler, who is one of the people behind the very popular XAMPP project.

You can now read the interview on the MySQL Developer Zone - I hope you will enjoy it!

I went on a buying spree of technical books a couple months ago. One of the MySQL books I picked up was The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition.

Let me start off by saying I'm a Database Administrator. I'm concerned with one thing; the database. I want to know how it works, how to back it up, how to restore it, how the locking works, how to secure it, and how are transactions handled. I don't care how you connect to the database or what tools you use. I'm beginning to understand MySQL, but know I have plenty more to learn.

The book started to get my interest around Chapter 11 - Access Administration and Security. Security on MySQL is a little different than I'm used to, so I got a lot out of this chapter. I also …

A few days ago, the MySQL GUI team announced new maintenance releases of both the MySQL Administrator (1.1.6) and Query Browser (1.1.18).

I now built RPMs for SUSE Linux 10.0/x86 - you can get them from my RPM Download section. Have fun!

A few days ago, the MySQL GUI team announced new maintenance releases of both the MySQL Administrator (1.1.6) and Query Browser (1.1.18).

I now built RPMs for SUSE Linux 10.0/x86 - you can get them from my RPM Download section. Have fun!

I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I’ve been using DBDesigner 4 from FabForce, an open source visual design tool, and apart from working around a number of bugs, I’ve found it practical to design from scratch. The big plus, it works under Linux.

With the announcement that this was being incorporated into MySQL, called MySQL Workbench, I was looking forward to getting my hands on it. I guess that was about 8 months ago. Finally about 6 weeks ago, Version 1.0.0-alpha was released for Linux. Unfortunately it didn’t work, would not even start for me. Logged as Bug #15421, which got marked as a duplicate of …