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How do you use MySQL as a DBA?

Interesting question for MySQL DBA's: do you prefer using the mysql cli interface and know the SQL statements to execute in order to do your admin work like creating databases or do you prefer using...

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Google "Public DNS" to compete against OpenDNS

Google have launched their "Public DNS" service - a similar service to the OpenDNS public dns resolvers. It is going to be interesting to see how much competition occurs. It is usually faster to use...

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How many drafts do you have in your blog software?

I currently have 43 draft entries in my blog software (movable type) that I've not yet published as I have not gotten round to posting some of the posts.

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OpenSolaris and VMWare boot issues

When running OpenSolaris SX:CE >= snv_100 on different flavours of VMWare (Fusion, ESX, etc.) one needs to change edit the grub menu to include "disable-pcieb=true" at the end of the kernel line. To...

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Crowd randomly dying issues

Dear Lazyweb, Does anyone have a solution for Atlassian Crowd keeping on crashing. I recently upgraded from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 and that is were the issue started. Crowd randomly crashed every couple of...

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Preventing source code in your .git directory being viewed

Adding some lines to your apache configuration file can prevent people from viewing files under your .git directory or files like .gitmodules. Depending on whether you have other files/directories...

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Debugging an Apache 403 error and .htaccess issues

Seems that apache can have some misleading logfile entries. When you see something about: "cfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable" You can either be out of file handles or...

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Getting Crowd 2.0.7 to behave itself under SMF

I was chatting to Jerry Jelinek during the week on IM about an issue that I was working on debugging - the reason Crowd 2.0.7 was not behaving under SMF - it was being randomly killed off and never...

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Some gsed magic to insert a line below the regex matched text

So I'm working on finishing automating as much of my install fresh installations of Crowd, Confluence and JIRA. One of the things I was looking for is how to use gsed to insert some thing after a...

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Getting java to trust a SSL Certificate

After fixing a few bugs in vimfluence, I tried to connect edit some wiki pages on my personal Confluence wiki which sits behind a self-signed SSL certificate. It works something like: $ personalwiki...

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Locking down rpcbind on OpenSolaris

Every now and again one is asked how one can lock down rpcbind from with a shared-ip zone without being able to use ipfilter from within the zone. Fortunately tcpwrappers save the day by allowing us to...

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Atlassian JIRA and URL rewriting

Prior to JIRA 4.2.2, there was a bug JSP-70163 which can be easily fixed by telling apache to rewrite the URL when you use a different base via tomcat i.e. /jira instead of / when doing...

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Learning from others mistakes - move configs out of your boot loader

I'm a keen believer of learning from other folks mistakes and attempting to not repeat them. Source code disclosure and even worse configuration disclosure which happened with tumblr. One thing to...

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Reverse Proxying Confluence and JIRA

At my $dayjob we use various products from Atlassian. Following the latest cohort of the JIRA security advisory, we needed a way to lock down access to our JIRA via our reverse proxies. Seeing we use...

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Fixing Helpspot's incorrect gziping of css and javascript

Ran into a strange gzip encoding bug with HelpSpot my preferred Help Desk solution where it would return gzip encoded content for it's css and javascript php combiner scripts even when Nginx was...

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