I have added another goody for anyone working on Windows that might be interested. It’s an new tool that does MD5 checksum generation and comparison for you. It’s free and still in BETA, but I am pretty sure it’s solid and I have any kinks worked out. If you have any troubles, let me know or post in the forums. Now, get over there and check it out!
Author Archives: Laz
Palm Gets It’s Ego Pump Fired Up
Well now, it appears that the folks at Palm seem to think that they have the next big thing, an iPhone killer if you will. It seems like everytime some company says that it always comes back to bite them in the buttocks later, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Specifically, Palm comes out saying some crazy things like the following:
“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.”
Whew, and even my favorite:
“All iPhone Customers Will Switch to Pre this Summer”
Heck yeah, that’s quite the bold statement there Palm. We’ll see how that one pans out. Check out the whole article if you want more info. Me personally, I still prefer my Blackberry.
Media Monkey Rocks
Media Monkey Screenshot
No, really, it does. Like a hurricane even. I found this nifty media player and manager while looking for something to replace iTunes. WinAmp used to be a cool product, but recent versions leave me flat. I tried others and ended up choosing Media Monkey after I found it. Not only is it an awesome media manager, but it can sync to your iPod as well. I couldn’t get rid of iTunes altogether because I get books from Audible, and the DRM is tied to iTunes, but I still like Media Monkey for everything else. I liked it enough that I bought the gold version, it’s a great tool. Check out their website at http://www.mediamonkey.com/ and give it a test drive. I bet you will dig it as much as I do!
MySQL Database Backup Script
Here we go folks, I thought I would share a handy little script with you that I use to backup all of the databases on a particular Linux/UNIX server. I do this by getting a list of the databases, and then using mysqldump to dump them all to a text file. This seems to be the best way (short of replication) to get good clean backups of the data. Toss it into a cron job and you can have it done automagically. There isn’t anything yet to rotate files, but I might add that later. Also, I am going to try and rewrite this in PERL so our Windows (and other OS’s that don’t have a shell like Bash) brethren can run this script as well. For now though, it’s written for Bash but almost any shell would work I think.
OK, onto the script. Continue reading
Hard Drive Labeling Update
I have updated the article about labeling in Linux to include some special stuff for Ubuntu and Debian since they use UUIDs instead of LABELs. Check it out and get to adding and mounting those drives!
Solarum’s MySQL Reference
Heads up, I have added something that I think you will find useful. I have added a MySQL reference to the Library! This is more than a cheat sheet, I try to explain the things that are going on in there as we do it, so it should be a good way to not only see how to do specific things, but also understand them as well. Check it out here and see what you think, if you see anything wrong with it or you have some tip of you own you’d like me to add, drop a line and let me know. Enjoy!