Oh Jesus, where to start?... Read More

Update: Apparently the master connection info gets cached in /var/lib/mysql/master.info so whenever you change the settings in my.cnf you need to remove it before you restart mysql.... Read More

I honestly can’t remember where I originally got my setup from. This is a pretty good tutorial though.... Read More

I just got an 4th gen iPad to test mobile sites with. Unfortunately there is no proper jailbreak for it yet so editing the hosts file on the machine itself was out of the question.... Read More

When I program Clojure and PicoLisp I use Emacs and it’s the way things are done in Emacs which inspired me to looking into making myself more productive doing PHP in Eclipse.... Read More

I have a server where there are two RAID1 disks where the second disk is mounted on /mnt/data, having the MySQL database there would be great as it then would have a whole disk all by itself without having to share with other processes that read and write to the same disk. I/O is often the bottleneck and now we make sure it gets as good as it can be with the hardware we have.... Read More

I’ve just had a shit of a time going from a dual boot setup with Windows on sda and Ubuntu on sdb to a Ubuntu only software RAID1 setup using both drives without having to erase or otherwise screw up the existing Ubuntu install on sdb (I’m using Lucid Lynx). ... Read More

I’ve just had to cache all images on a site in RAM in order to limit the amount of disc scratching going on.... Read More

It’s hard to beat the SYSSTAT / kSAR combo for easy and quick setup of monitoring servers and in this tutorial you will see how it’s done.... Read More

I’m currently debugging stuff which requires me to begin every session with opening up 3 gnome terminal tabs and executing a different command in each just to get started.... Read More