Monthly Archives: January 2007

A lesson in on the limits of administrating your way out of problems: Shared MySQL

By | Published: January 29, 2007
I just finished reading a post to the Media Temple blog about their MySQL problems . I think it is an excellent example of what happens when you only have one side of the house trying to fix a problem. The post leaves out some details but they make it clear that they believe their [...]
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Using Oracle Instant Client and SQLPlus

By | Published: January 19, 2007
Some time ago Oracle introduced their Instant Client as an alternative to needing a full install of the Oracle client to run your own apps or SQLPlus. I've been putting the Instant Client to good use these days and figured I would give a quick howto on getting it set up.
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Debian EC2 AMI

By | Published: January 16, 2007
After working on my FC6 AMI I started thinking about how small of an AMI I could create. The goal would be to have a 10 meg or less image that is very specialized for doing something like serving images with lighttpd or apache. I started very very small but the lack of console access [...]
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Creating your own FC6 instance for EC2

By | Published: January 12, 2007
I've been playing around with the EC2 service at Amazon and figured I would document a little about how you create your own FC6 AMI. The Amazon documentation goes over everything you need to know about creating your own FC4 AMI and if you don't want to roll your own you can use one of [...]
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Optaros Open Source Catalogue

By | Published: January 11, 2007
For anyone interested in using open source software in the enterprise Optaros just published their Open Source Catalogue 2007. The paper doesn't cover every project out there but it is a good read and a starting point for others who might want to publish a more comprehensive guide. Tags: open source, optaros
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Akismet spam graphs with PHP RRD

By | Published: January 1, 2007
After reading a post on hacking Akismet to add graphs I decided I liked the idea but I didn't want to store the data in a database. It seemed like it would be better to store it using a RRD and then use the PHP RRD library. So after a little hacking I've created a [...]
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