The Mozilla Firefox browser Release Candidate 2 is available!
Month: September 2006
Dress code
Do you sometimes attend to video-conference calls? If like me your dress code is t-shirt/jeans, then the “half-suit” is for you!
mysqld got signal 11
Today I found this nice mysql “feature”: mysql> set password for user@host = old_password(“foobar”); ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query This command generated a nice log: mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or
Happy Birthday /dev/hda, /dev/c0t0d0 !
This week, the harddisk is 50 years old! The RAMAC 305 was the first disks developed by IBM: 5MB for $7000!
Bigbrother is listening to you!
I read this article on The Register today: Google developing eavesdropping software. Google plans to “listen” to your direct environment and push advertisements according to your current activities. Watching tv? Why not rent a DVD? etc… Soon, Google will be banned from my environment! :-[
Provider-1 training live from London
Live from the training room… 😉 My 2-days training on Provider-1 will start soon… Stay tuned!
MySQL 5 on OpenBSD 3.9
This is a hot topic on openbsd-msic for a few days. It seems that lot of admins complaint about the MySQL stability. To be honest, I’m also facing issues since I reinstalled my box… 🙁 There is a dedicated page about this problem on openbsdsupport.com. Let’s test it!
When it’s time to go!
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Back to shool for children, new job for me!
September is “hot”! My daughters are back to school and I started my new job. Since yesterday, I’m working for C-Cure as Security Consultant. More later…