I have found a couple more plugins that are supposed to display scripts in posts well. As I am sure you have seen, sometimes I have to put scripts in the forums and link to them because they tend to get mangled and not displayed correctly in posts. I am going to try some of these new plugins and see if we can get to keeping scripts and source code related to a particular post, in that post! Stay tuned …
Author Archives: Laz
Network Tools Are Online
I am always thinking about ways that I can not only improve the site here, but also ways that I can provide something useful to visitors. Along those lines, I decided to put some network tools online fo visitors to use. You never know when you might need to ping or trace something from an outside source when troubleshooting a problem. There is also a Whois option, and even one to show the IP address that we see you coming from. That’s useful when trying to configure IP based access somewhere. I’ll be refining the tools and working to add more and improve the existing tools as time moves on. Let me know what you think, if you have any problems with them or suggestions, hit the contact link and drop me a line. Now, go check ’em out!
Solaris Reference added to the download section
For anyone who found the Solarum Solaris reference handy, and would like a portable copy, I split it into columns and PDF’d it so it would make an easy download. Check it out in the downloads section.
Dumping MySQL database schema but not the data!
How many times have all you command line warriors out there been working with MySQL and backed up or moved a database with the trusty old mysqldump command? I know I use it all the time. But! What if you want to dump just the schema or structure of the database, and not all the data? Like going from DEV to TEST or PROD for example? You want to get the database setup, but you certainly don’t want all that data.
Sun Microsystems Buys MySQL
Wow. That’s about all I can say initially. I am sure I don’t have to explain anything about Sun or MySQL to most of my visitors, and anyone that knows me already knows that I am a hardcore user and supporter of both. I don’t know though, if this announcement is good news or not. I think only time will tell on that one. Really, it all will come down to what Sun decides to do with MySQL. They have an opportunity to help MySQL grow and become even bigger … but then again, they can drop the ball and make it flounder as well. I seem to remember a note a while back about Sun buying PostgreSQL too, I’ll have to look back and see if that ever came about, and if so, what ended up happening with it. For now we’ll all wait and see! Read more here …
Add an Open With option to the global context menu
Have you ever wanted to add an option to that ornery right click context menu so you could open whatever file you just clicked on with whatever the heck you please? I know I have, and here is a quick tip to do just that! Whether it’s your favorite text editor, or another app that you want for some reason, you can easily add an Open With option to the context menu by modifying and then importing this registry file.