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Friday, 4 November 2005
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. Finally, after some seven months, the client (rightly) gave up being patient and switched to running their SAP software under Windows 2003 Server.
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Tuesday, 1 November 2005
It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s worth the wait.
You see, I’m one of those insubordinate software developers who has for many years insisted that Hungarian notation is crap because not even Hungarians find it useful. I was one of the obnoxiously vocal minority who just refused to conform to variable naming conventions, Microsoft-style.
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Friday, 26 August 2005
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.
It will also release Microsoft SQL Server Express for free — limitations are that it will run on a machine with a single CPU.
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Sunday, 24 July 2005
As a Linux developer, sometimes you need to know how much space is taken up by files in a directory. The following command shows all files in the current directory, ordered by descending file size:
du -s /home/users/ivan/ * | sort -nr
Especially useful when you need to identify the largest files in a directory.
Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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.sql
Where "databasename" is the name of your MySQL database, "dumpfilename" is the name of the backup/restore file and "username" is your MySQL username.
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