If any of you are wondering why the theme has changed completely and several of the plugins etc., have vanished... Well I just taught myself a nice little lesson about the dangers of using the following: rm -r -f * I successfully cleaned up my blog by killing it :) Oh well! It was about time I cleaned up, as there were plugins and God only knows what else dating back about 3 … [Read more...] about The Danger of the “rm” command
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Webhosting.info Puts Blacknight No. 2
I've mentioned webhosting.info's hosting stats several times over the past couple of years. While I still do not find them to be 100% accurate I would consider them to be a relatively good barometer of relative sizes etc., During the course of 2006 Blacknight's growth was steady and healthy (screenshot from domaintools) If you look at our overall position compared to our … [Read more...] about Webhosting.info Puts Blacknight No. 2
Dig on windows
For a variety of reasons I'm currently using windows as my desktop at home (this will probably change as soon as I have the energy to do something about it :) ) In any case I ran into an interesting issue this evening with a domain's DNS. While I could see that the root nameservers had picked up the change and any server on our network could see the new IP, my windows desktop … [Read more...] about Dig on windows
Explaining HTTP Response Codes
Jon posted this link to a mailing list I read. It's absolutely hilarious, but also a really nice way of explaining some of the geekier stuff that we all deal with in terms that most people can understand. … [Read more...] about Explaining HTTP Response Codes
CSV / MySQL Tools?
Does anyone know of a tool for working with CSV files and then importing them into MySQL? I've got a flatfile database which has a series of fields that I need to import into MySQL. Most of the fields in the orginal will map to new ones in the MySQL, while some on both sides will be ignored There's about a thousand entries in the database, so I'd rather not do it manually, as … [Read more...] about CSV / MySQL Tools?