Archive for September, 2005

Posted on September 26th, 2005 by by root

Upgraded MySQL 3.23.58 to 4.1 on Fedora Core 2

I attempted to upgrade MySQL server from old version 3.23.58 to 4.1 current. Amazingly everything is workingafter the upgrade and the whole site feels more responsive. I installed it directly off the MySQL website since I cannot find fc2 rpm for yum to upgrade.
Steps I took to get this done:

1. Backup EVERYTHING!
2. Download MySQL source [...]

Posted on September 23rd, 2005 by by root

Comment Spam

Jeff Barr from syndic8.com implemented this simple yet effective measure against comment spam in WordPress.
Maybe I’ll implement this today after work, comment spam is getting worse.
Tutorial:
HERE

Posted on September 23rd, 2005 by by root

Oulook 2003 Out of Office Assistant

Various user I support were getting “the command is not available” error message when they tried to turn off out of office assistant in Oulook 2003.
Finally found a solution from Microsoft KB 327353.
Remove/rename
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Resiliency
Source:
MS KB

Posted on September 18th, 2005 by by root

Single-User Subversion

Single-User Subversion by Rafael Garcia-Suarez — Revision control isn’t just for distributed, multi-developer teams. Rafael Garcia-Suarez introduces Subversion and explains how to use it for personal projects.