kieranbarnes

Here’s a nicer version of the print_r() function that displays much better on web pages.

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* It may take a little longer depending on your server and finger speeds!

dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0

Installing munin has to be the fastest and simplest way of installing a visual system monitor on Linux.

Website Blurb:
Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort. (more…)

The Yahoo Maps API is the best API I’ve found for using on in internal site. Google won’t let me access theirs from a non-public site.

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These are some of the handy MySQL 5.0 tweaks I do to get the most out a MySQL database;
I adjust the following to suit my server, I try to give MySQL as much resource as possible.

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I had a problem with some slow Ubuntu sources today, instead of changing the whole sources.list manually, I stumbled over Ubuntu Nederland’s Source-O-Matic.

Slam in the country you want and it generates you a nice new file. Saves at least 30 seconds!

I stumbled over these two new functions in the PHP CVS today. They are only available in Windows as they use COM, but interesting non the least.

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I like clean URLs.

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