mysqldump’s –skip-opt

Thursday, 12. 14. 2006  –  Category: all, sw

–skip-opt is a useful option to mysqldump – amongst other things it disables the extended INSERT syntax producing an INSERT per table row. That’s good for examing individual rows in the dump. However, it also disables –create-options. This flag prevents any MySQL-specific schema stuff appearing in the dump. Unfortunately (for me, during a live deploy) […]

get your railties here

Thursday, 11. 30. 2006  –  Category: all, sw

Nov 30 5:50 PM jon s. cmg – i forgotten the voodoo to make a fresh SVN checkout go off and get its railties bits jon s. can remember we had this with the redesign branch but frustratingly can’t remember the shimmy jon s. (atm rake bombs with a AR absent method err) Chris M. […]

Tape drive vendor information on Solaris 8

Wednesday, 06. 7. 2006  –  Category: all, sw

An ancient box, groaning under the weight of years of developer abuse, has a failing tape drive. How hard is it to get vendor information out of the OS? Easy, I thought, just use prtconf and look for the st paragraph:             st, instance #0 (driver not attached)                 System properties:                     name <lun> length <4>                         value <0x00000000>. […]