Explain the importance of installing and running portsnap after installing a current version of FreeBSD.
Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree. Approximately once an hour, a “snapshot” of the ports tree is generated, repackaged, and cryptographically signed. The resulting files are then distributed via HTTP.
The first…

Recently, I wanted to confirm that I was running the 64 bit version of the MySQL server as opposed to the 32 bit version… one of my admins had made a symlink from the mysql/bin directory to the 64 bit binary directory. On the command line, you could no longer tell if the mysqld…

Oracle just announced a new line of Nehalem based x86 servers and they are beasts:

The long and short of it for me seems to be that the machines are beasts but power hungry beasts. None of the lower power Nehalems really seem to be on the table. Until we see prices, it will be…

If you’re like me, you love the granular permissions capabilities of MySQL but hate the work that goes into managing them…
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything like groups in MySQL and according to plans won’t be added officially until MySQL 7.0 (WL#988)…
While searching around, I found Securich…

Just saw this on Slashdot. Basically the idea is that you give them a certain amount of money each month which you then use to “flatter” Internet content that you like…
While it seems like a good idea, and the domain name it great, I’m not sure there is any market for more “buttons”. They…