Opinionate:

This is Owens other weblog.
I plan to host all the 'other' stuff here; technology and opinion. Hopefully some `howto` articles; and other stuff that is not, in the great scheme of things, too important.


PS; there is no freedom of speech here.. It's my blog, I decide which comments stay and which go, and it is entirely according to my personal whims.
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Manipulate:

MySQL (with InnoDB) backup for simple servers.

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 [...]

mypodder on 64bit linux.

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 [...]