Author: jedreynolds
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Attending #lfnw and using MariaDB or XtraDB?
I’m really curious how people using MariaDB or XtraDB like them. Happy to let you stand up at my Sat talk and discuss.
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LinuxFest Northwest (Bellingham Herald)
Always great to see the local paper write a few inches about LinuxFest Northwest. Funny ’bout how both “Microsoft Windows” and “Vista” get mentioned in such a short article.
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to make it an alias now….
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Longest MySQL Replication Run? #lfnw #mysql
I’ve heard of people replicating MySQL from coast to coast. I’d love to hear if anyone attending @lfnw has longer replication runs. Happy to share some examples at my talk on Sat. http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/mysql-performance-and-availability
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Crazy mod_rewrite examples? #lfnw #opensource
I’d love to see some wacked mod_rewrite uses! Got one? I’ll put them on screen on Sun @lfnw http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/using-apache-modrewrite-ninja
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Busted a Front Shifter Cable
I busted a front shifter cable this morning, had to do my ride in the smallest chainring. Thot I’d post a link to a fix-it video. Replacing shifter cables is pretty easy. Adjusting a front derailler isn’t as easy, but it ain’t rocket science neither.
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: Apache Rewrites
Apache Rewrites — for Ninjas! This session is an overview of using Apache mod_rewrite, driven mostly by your interests and questions. Your Questions, Your Interests? The simple difference between rewrites and redirects. You can specify an redirection in a few ways, and they don’t need to be RewriteRules. You can use an Alias directive to…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: MySQL Buffet
MySQL Buffet This session covers topics in MySQL high availability and performance, centered mostly on your interests and questions. Your Questions? Your Interests? MySQL is a large topic and we can do a thumbnail overview followed by specific topics you’re interested in. I’ve listed the topics below in what I believe are the most important…
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Welcome to Earth Day, Week…Year?
April 22 is Earth Day! April 16 begins Earth Week! Eventually you and I and everyone will be so used to it really being Earth Day every day that we’ll actually look back and laugh that we had to actually promote such common sense one day out of the year…right?
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Using Freezers to Bank Energy?
I was listening to a recent Science Friday episode where the benefits of windpower were being debated. One of the drawbacks mentioned was that wind energy is intermittent, often present at off-peak periods-and there is no good way to bank electricity for later. Well, at a national scale. Solar installations, like the Luz generation plants…
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