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Whether you are upgrading, decommissioning or putting your current master server in maintenance - here's a quick howto on promoting your slave server as new master for your application writes. This instructions (for my notes and the benefit of the...

In case you are upgrading to Fedora 16 and trying to use a software RAID for the /boot partition, at some point Anaconda is bound to complain that the RAID metadata version is invalid. Well this is a known bug and a workaround is available from this bug...

If you think the below error is trivial, there might just be two possible causes. ERROR 1467 (HY000) at line 1: Failed to read auto-increment value from storage engine Your table's auto increment column datatype is too small i.e. MySQL is not able...

Recently I was playing around with the Maatkit tools specifically mk-parallel-dump and mk-parallel-restore for refreshing development database copies with production copies. A problem arises when BLOB data is being displayed on the console and...

I was recently updating ffmpeg-php on one of our servers to the latest SVN release  of the 0.6.3 branch. On a 64bit CentOS 5.3 with PHP 5.2.11, the extension compiled and installed fine however Apache will not load it and spit out the error below: PHP...

Finally I got to free up this laptop to be an all around testing machine after I got my wife her new MacBook Pro. Since I'd like a little more education, I decided to get back to Slackware after a couple of years. Install went fine, nothing much has...

I was recently investigating a LAMP application bottleneck. Part of which was to monitor web server entry points during peak hours. Looking into segregate connections and what each clients are actually doing I needed some advanced netstat know-how to get...