MySQL Performance Blog
While working on a recent support issue as a Percona Support Engineer, I got one question from a customer asking how to monitor ALTER TABLE progress. Actually, for MySQL 5.5 and prior versions, it’s quite difficult to ALTER the table in a running…
26 February 2014Google Open Source Blog
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
26 February 2014Planet GNOME
I sometimes describe OSTree as being even more rigorous than traditional dpkg/rpm type package systems. Now, there are some of you out there who probably can’t imagine how that’s possible. You found packaging so tedious and painful that you gave up, and…
26 February 2014Slashdot
szczys writes "Gregory Charvat has been playing with and teaching others about entry-level radar concepts for a long time. Now he's sat down and explained how you can do it yourself inexpensively. He says, 'One enabling technology for Radar was the…
25 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
In my previous post I pointed out that the existing ARCHIVE storage engine in MySQL may not be the one that will satisfy your needs when it comes to effectively storing large and/or old data. But are there any good alternatives? As the primary purpose of…
24 February 2014Planet Mozilla
tl;dr 36 For some time now, I've been running an experiment where I analyze how many different domains any website depends on. For example, you might have Google Analytics on your site (that's www.google-analytics.com) and you might have a Facebook Like…
24 February 2014Planet Debian
When starting to work on a new project I start from an empty git repository right away so I can try out different ideas, revert easily, can diff against old versions (to check if I missed something) and have a commit history to record fixmes and todos.…
21 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
January 22 I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Operations Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to…
12 February 2014MacOSXHints.com
I came across this by pure accident but did you know that all of your iOS Keyboard Shortcuts that you create are then stored to iCloud Keychain and can be used in OS X 10.9? I was in iMessage when I accidentally typed "eag" which is a shortcut I have…
12 February 2014Debian GNU/Linux System Administration Resources
This site is now 100% read-only, and retired. Posted by Steve on Mon 10 Feb 2014 at 09:07 Prosody is a Lua-powered chat-server, which has been around for a few years now. Prosody is very straight-forward to install and configure, and the reliability…
10 February 2014