<flame on> Why is there no decent MIB viewer for Linux? Somebody suggested tkmib. But impossible to run it… If you know one, please post some info! </flame off> [Updated 11/07/2006] I just posted this article and found one: mbrowse!
Category: Software
WordPress and /server-status
WordPress has a nice feature called “Permalink“. This can improve the visibility or efficiency of your links (http://blog/monthly/post/13 is much nicer then http://blog?p=13). To achieve this, WordPress generates a .htaccess file to upload in your blog root directory. It processes all HTTP requests via the mod_rewrite module. Problem: all URLs
Oracle + SunCluster + Backup = Danger
At work, we have a big Sun Cluster with 3 major business critical Oracle databases. Today I had to perform a short maintenance on one of those DBs. I switched off the resource group… Switched on… And a ping-pong game started between the nodes… 🙁 After x attempts, the resource
OpenSSH & files security
To sync files or export data between servers, I usually use rsync on top of ssh. With public/private key pairs, you can easily automate the jobs via a cron without password issues. I also create a dedicated user who has only the required privileges to run rsync on the destination.
Moved to WordPress!
After a few years of good services, MT (MovableType) has been replaced by WordPress to handle this blog. The import feature worked perfectly (>350 articles processed). Ouf! It took more time to write my own theme to get back my old look & feel. No yet perfect but the weekend
Source code readability!
During my studies, students were always brain stormed with the same message: “Your code must be readable by others”. And this one? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_=’ev al(“seek40D ATA,0, 0;”);foreach(1..2) {;}my @camel1hump;my$camel; my$Camel ;while( ){$_=sprintf(“%-6 9s”,$_);my@dromedary 1=split(//);if(defined($ _=)){@camel1hum p=split(//);}while(@dromeda ry1){my$camel1hump=0 ;my$CAMEL=3;if(defined($_=shif t(@dromedary1 ))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1;s$\s*$$g;( );;s ;^.*_;;;map{eval”print\”$_\””;}/.{4}/g; __DATA__ \124 \1 50\14540\165\163\14540\157\1 4640\1
mysqldump & foreign keys
Today, I had a problem while restoring a crashed MySQL server… The daily backup is done via a mysqldump (then the dump files are moved to a separate box). The DB to restore used InnoDB and foreign keys. I started to restore the data using: # mysql -u root -p
VMware for Free
An interesting article how to use the VMware player to run any OS you would like! See: HOW TO: Run Other OSes On Your PC.
Packages for Solaris
No time or bored to compile well known Open Source applications on your Solaris box? Blastwave did the job for you! Applications are available as Solaris packages. Here is a list.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is available for download! I downloaded the installer for Linux-i686, installed in /usr/local/firefox (without removing my RPM instance, we never know! ;-). Start it for the first time, coredump! 🙁 I had to remove my old Firefox settings ($HOME/.mozilla/firefox). This article has been posted using 1.5