Junk Mail
Posted by cafuego on Saturday 23 August 2008.The fight against junk is ever on-going, so I better make sure I publish the honey.pot@cafuego.net address. Feel free to send it a mail, if you happen to be a spam bot.
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Olympic Cheats
Posted by cafuego on Saturday 9 August 2008.As was probably unavoidable, in the week or so leading up to the olympics there were stories of drug cheats being found out and banned.
What strikes me as somewhat odd is that the news shows managed to get clips of Australian athletes condemning these drug cheats.
Australian athletes, who only have the help of their own efforts and a multi-million dollar government funded high tech research agency, to win as many gold medals as possible to reinforce nationalistic pride. In what way is that NOT cheating?
replicants
Posted by cafuego on Thursday 5 June 2008.I found myself with some spare time the other day and decided that my current mysql backup strategy is not the best in the world. The mysql server is a virtual machine in a Brisbane datacenter and it's backed up via a script that calls mysqldump on each installed database and dumps the content to (compressed) files. These files then get sucked down via rdiff-backup.
This is fine in principle, but does mean it's possible for me to lose 24 hours worth of data due to an accidental '--; DROP table students.