Today I was typing up a mail, the second I hit send in my mail client, my mouse pointer starts to shake and jump slowly but annoyingly enough to make it unworkable, I suspected that my 10 year old IntellyEye mouse went on life-support but when I unplugged it, it was still happening, also when…
Only yesterday I was debating post title’s with Niki Van Cleemput claiming to him that I believed all sort and makes of people should fully comprehend what the post is all about by reading the title. He rebutted that a bit by saying he’s not targeting an audience like that but instead he’s focused on…
If you want to set up a decent MariaDB machine with enough tables to seriously keep you awake at night thinking about backup/restore plans, you need to perform some additional setup to the stock MariaDB configuration file. I just started to load up a backup of a large database and once it had to create…
We have had an issue the last 2 days with a table that apeared corrupt. Selecting from this table returns an error all the sudden. Since upgrading to MariaDB 5.2 a few weeks ago we had this twice. So far only moderated panic applies. I’ve never seen this since the start of this project which…
Since a few months I dove into the mapping thing like a mad man. Having access to tons of geodata makes that really fun and rewarding. Playing with JOSM I’ve really wondered why they could use aerial imagery Bing data for OpenStreetMaps. So I went to search for what the licenses where all about. I…
Hellow Postgres One of the things MySQL forced me into is looking for serious alternatives. Finding MariaDB was an amazing relief. But it’s still not all cake and cookies yet. I experiment a lot with OpenStreetMaps lately, a great project everyone of all makes should look into seeing what it can do for you and…
A company around NGINX is on the horizon.
In my first post on this blog I try to explain how to run an efficient wordpress setup in terms of performance by going light-weight. Along the way I converted the wordpress database to the Maria database engine. I also explain how to change your tables from InnoDB to Maria. After having it switched off,…
I’m in a mental struggle sometimes … Part of me just desires to teach people in need but a lot of times they just take my hints as an insult and can’t seem to handle the positive criticism and get personal in their replies. Their loss I think, since that shuts me up and then…