Over at ZDNet Australia, Steven Deare asks a very pertinent question about why the decision by Kennards Hire to switch from Windows to Linux on all of it’s desktops has sadly remained inconspicuous: Why has the country’s biggest known desktop Linux implementation gone relatively unpublicised for so long? More »
In an earlier post I talked about the usefulness of the Linux “find” command to delete old files. Another, perhaps less common, use is to delete files with “bad characters” in the name. For instance, the famous “tar” archiver allows you to exclude certain files by specifying the “–exclude=filename” option. More »
We’re getting a little annoyed with some webmasters out there who continue to link directly to some of the images on our website. As far as we’re concerned, this practise equates to theft because they’re using the bandwidth we pay for. By adding these four lines to our . More »
If you need to archive your MySQL databases in a Linux environment, there’s no better tool than Harley’s AutoMySQLBackup. The main script features include: Backup multiple MySQL databases with one script. Backup all databases to a single backup file or to a separate directory and file for each database. More »
While the Linux find command has a number of uses, the most obvious being looking for files matching full or partial names, the one often underused option is to use it to locate old files. More »
Linux has copped a bit of bad press just recently. Well, Red Hat Australia have, anyway. Apparently, after spending two weeks configuring the SAP software for Crest Electronics (the client), Red Hat were unable to resolve the sporadic crashes that kept occurring. More »
Microsoft is going to release Visual Studio 2005 Express in 2006. As much as I am tempted, I won’t comment on that by the way. It will cost somewhere around AUD$89 and the word is that it may be released free as part of some promotions. More »
As a Linux developer, sometimes you need to know how much space is taken up by files in a directory. More »
For those of you lucky enough to have Linux shell access here’s a quick tip for backing up and restoring your MySQL database: Backup: mysqldump -u username -p –opt databasename | gzip -9 > dumpfilename.sql.gz Restore: gunzip dumpfilename.sql.gz mysql -u username -p databasename < dumpfilename. More »