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Archive for March, 2007

31 Mar

I’m going to the MySQL conference… or not

The folks over at Proven Scaling offered to send three people to the MySQL conference in Santa Clara at the end of the month. I put my name in and won! Unfortunately my wife’s at a conference herself those days, so I can’t go. Major bummer! I think it’s wonderful that a company is offering [...]

12 Mar

flow-tools, flowscan and Fedora

I’m doing some work with NetFlow accounting. FlowScan parses the data captured by flow-tools. However, FlowScan needs Cflow.pm which has to be specially compiled to work with flow-tools, because it’s made for Caida’s now defunct cflowd. If you don’t compile Cflow.pm using the flow-tools library, you get something like “Invalid index in cflowd flow file: [...]

06 Mar

Upgrading legacy Fedora boxen for the DST time change

There’s lots of documents out there on how to download the latest time zone data and apply it manually. In the interests of proper management though, I like using RPM to do pretty much everything. The problem is that Fedora Legacy has disbanded, so I can’t get patches for my FC1 and FC4 systems. The [...]

02 Mar

Simple trickle charger for a cordless drill

I’ve got a couple of cheap cordless drills, one’s a 9.6 volt and the other is 18.2 volts. They work well, but the annoying thing is the charger isn’t “smart”. By smart, I mean that it will continue to charge the battery even after it’s been charged. With NiCad batteries this means that the batteries [...]

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