ZFS and OS X meet again?
I just came across a reference to ZEVO tonight. This appears to be an add-on package for OS X that is built on top of ZFS. I'm going to have to keep an eye on this. Snapshots, data checksumming, de-dup, compression and zfs send/recv would be pretty cool on my Laptop…
$ read more →Reading a file into a Python string
I've learned a number of useful things from the Google learn Python video series. One of the tips I got to use today. That tip was Python's ability to read a file into a string: This has a few interesting uses, and I plan to put this to use this weekend when I finish up a Python project I'm working on. I really, really dig Python…
$ read more →Getting MySQL running on a CentOS Linux server
I started playing with MySQL back in the 4.X days, but never invested a lot of my time since my day job required me to support Oracle databases. I'm trying to branch out more now, and recently picked up a copy of MySQL, MySQL High Availability and PHP And MySQL. There are a slew of things I would like to web-enable, so I'm hoping to learn everything I can about PHP and MySQL in the next few months. To allow me to start experimenting with PHP and MySQL, I needed to create a test environment…
$ read more →Integrating ssh-agent into your login process
Most of my readers utilize SSH keys to access remote systems. The security bene fits are well known, and key-based authentication makes automating remote t asks a whole lot easier. When you use key-based authentication it becomes imperative to protect your private key, since a third party could access your systems if they were able to gain access to your account. The SSH key generator (ssh-keygen) will attempt to encrypt your private key by default, and can also be used ssh-keygen to add a password to a private key after the fact…
$ read more →Free video tutorials for C, Java, PHP, HTML5, Python, MySQL and more ...
I just came across the new boston video tutorial series. I've watched 20 of the PHP videos and am hooked. The production quality is great, and the content is really, really good! Once I finish the 200 PHP videos I plan to watch their MySQL and HTML5 videos…
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