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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Top for Apache activity
While top can show you that yes, it is Apache that is taking up all your server’s resources, what can you do to narrow down the activity to a particular site being served on the box? You could tail the … Continue reading
Search MySQL field names
I had occasion recently to map out a number of databases, some of which contained quite a few tables. I was not intimately familiar with most of them, and since they didn’t have foreign keys established in most cases, I … Continue reading
Easy unit conversion in the CLI
Have you ever been at a command line and just had to know how many leagues were in 10 nanometers? Well now you can find out easily! Enter the 1units command: 1units takes the first argument and converts it into … Continue reading
Python 3.0 final is out!
Woot! The official announcement The goods What’s New