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Month: November 2006

MySQL: Replica & auto-increment

November 28, 2006 Software 2 comments

I setup a replica between two big MySQL server for a customer. Sometimes, when the replica was broken, I had lot of issues with columns defined as “auto-increment”. It’s not always possible to stop updates on the master, dump the data and restore them on the replica (DB’s are used

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Geek table?

November 23, 2006 Hardware, People / Places Leave a comment

They did it! Better than Ikea! 😉 Mandatory for all of us who have problems with our [wife|girl-friend] and cables! To order: Richard Shed.

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Firewalling with OpenBSD’s PF packet filter

November 21, 2006 OpenBSD, Security, Software Leave a comment

Great tutorial about OpenBSD’s PF… http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/

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Is greylisting the solution?

November 14, 2006 Security, Software Leave a comment

As everybody, I’ve too fight against spammers! I’m running my own MTA for several domain names and the box get it 24 hours a day by spammers. I’ve a quite performant SpamAssassin solution in place (~95% of spam is catched) but I’d like to prevent them to reach my SpamAssassing

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e-HR?

November 14, 2006 People / Places Leave a comment

7000 employers in the University of Groningue received a mail asking them to close their account because they were fired! It seems to be due to a “system error” 😉

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Sometimes, advertisements are good ;-)

November 9, 2006 Fun Leave a comment
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Sofrasolone rulez!

November 9, 2006 Grrrr!, People / Places Leave a comment

One of the best invention ever! 😉 <snifffffff>

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Geek clock!

November 8, 2006 Fun, Hardware Leave a comment
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