Well; the MySQL tarts seem to be just as bad as ever; making backup really, really hard, and being careful never to really explain how to do it safely. But very keen, no doubt, to maintain their salaries and/or sell you a product to do a backup. As they say “Obscurity is Job Security”.
Took some [...]
Ok, so it is a 64-bit incompatibility. The eternally useful mypodder application runs well on Windows and Linux in 32bit mode, but fails badly in Linux 64 bit (I have not tested in Windows x64 yet).
There is a way to get it working however, thanks to the fact that Sun’s official Java runtime environment runs [...]