Month: July 2008
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MySQL: MyISAM Table Gotchas!
I’ve recently had to learn a lot about MySQL and how to manage it effectively, especially after it has not been managed very well for a long time. As a Linux Administrator I’ve had the opportunity to use MySQL in many roles over the years but never at an enterprise level. I’m still learning and […]
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vi Tip of the day!
Something that I need to do frequently is to set some text to lowercase in vi which is currently in mixed or upper case. A quick way to do this is: :1s/\(.*\)/\L\1/ The above command acts on line 1 in the file, takes the entire line, enclosed in parentheses to create a group, then uses […]
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DNS Vulnerability
Tuesday a vulnerability was made public which affects all users of the DNS system. The vulnerability was discovered by Dan Kaminsky, a prominent researcher in the area of DNS, who organized a mass patch release by major vendors to prevent delays between the vulnerability becoming public and the patch being released. http://doxpara.com/ This is a […]