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MySQL Documentation and Debian/Ubuntu
We’ve got a lot of queries recently on the MySQL docs team address about the documentation (particularly man pages) for MySQL on Debian/Ubuntu. The source of the original problem was reported as a Debian bug. The assumption from the reading of the…
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System Administration Toolkit: Testing system validity
Have you ever wondered whether the system you are using is the same as the one that you originally configured? Making sure that the configuration and setting information that you configured is the same as when you configured it should be a basic p…
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System Administration Toolkit: Set up remote access in UNIX through OpenSSH
OpenSSH has become the defacto standard for connecting to remote machines in a secure way. Not only do you use it for simple interactivel terminal access, but for transferring files and as a backbone for services like Subversion for securely trans…
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 2: SOA grid design patterns for computer graphics animation
The next part in the series on using WS-RT in your grid applications is available to read. In this second part of the series we get into the meat of the implementation and look at how to integrate the information that you create within WS-RT with …
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 1: Grid services and WS-RT
I have just started a new series on using the new WS-Resource Transfer (WS-RT) standard. WS-RT is a simpler replacement for the original WS-Resource Framework and WS-Resource Properties solutions. In fact, IBM’s own WS-RT implementation is built a…
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Mysterious crashes? – check your temporary directory settings
Just recently I seem to have noticed an increased number of mysterious crashes and terminations of applications. This is generally on brand new systems that I’m setting up, or on existing systems where I’m setting up a new or duplicate account. In…
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Voice enabling XML, Part 1: Develop a voice-enabled RSS reader
I have a new series of articles available, this time on using and consuming VoiceXML. VoiceXML is a hugely simplified method of using and working with voice-interactive services, just like those that you might use when calling your bank or other s…
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MySQL and DBD::mysql on Mac OS X
I’ve been investigating some recent issues with installations of MySQL on Mac OS X and the Perl DBD::mysql module for accessing MySQL from within Perl through DBI. The problem exists only with binary distributions of MySQL and is related to the in…
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Sorry about the testing
Sorry about the ‘Testing’ posts – I’ve been trying about the new Sun Weblog Publisher extension for StarOffice and I seem to have discovered a bug that is affecting what you can post. Sun are working on the issue right now to determine the problem.
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Switching off login requirements
I’m switching off the need to register just to leave a comment. Mostly this is because I tend to get a lot of direct emails and reply back to people, but a l;ot of that info would be useful to everybody. If I can get you to comment, rather than us…