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Stepped execution with cron and at
I had a query from a reader today as a follow up to my System Administrators Toolkit: Time and event management article at developerWorks: How do I execute a script at a specific interval, for example 28 days, rather than on a specific day or date…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX filesystems
I’ve had more than one occasion when I’ve had to move a live filesystem to a new partition or new disk, whether its because I’m short on space on the original partition or through disk failure. I’ve put put my experience of that into my latest dev…
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Apple sacrilege
For some reason, this Rudy Park cartoon really resonates with me.
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Free Software Magazine blog added to Planet MySQL
I’ve had my blog at Free Software Magazine added the Planet MySQL syndication site.
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Multiple search
I think it was a post by Robert Scoble that put me onto this, but gada.be. The site goes away and searches a number of other search engines to give you some top responses. Quite interesting…try running these and check the results: Martin C Brown…
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Comparing traditional grids with high-performance computing
Traditionally, high performance computing was carried out by specialized hardware and software working together to produce a highly optimized environment. Grids are beginning to change that, by removing the need for the specialized elements while …
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System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring disk space and usage
The next article in the System Administrators Toolkit series, this time on monitoring disk space and disk usage by users, is available at IBM developerWorks. This one focuses on finding out your disk storage, where it is being used, finding out wh…
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Major rewrite of C/ODBC completed
One of my first major tasks at MySQL has just been completed – a major rewrite of the Connector/ODBC (C/ODBC) documentation. There were three major focuses for the rewrite: Bring the documentation up to date. We had a mix of information on the lat…
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Perl/Eclipse tutorials picked for top 27
My Building Perl Applications and Debugging Perl Applications with Eclipse tutorials have been picked in a list of the top 27 Eclipse tutorials. You can see the full list here.
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System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
When your Unix/Linux system starts going slowly, you need to find out why, and quickly, what is going on. That’s the focus of my new SAT piece: Monitoring a slow system. From the intro: When your UNIX system runs slow, it is vital that you discove…