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150_002 Linux

About 150_002 Linux: A small linux distro compiled specifically for the VMware platform based on the Linux From Scratch (6.2) documentation.

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Automatically reattach to a screen session after logging in via ssh

The following code when added to your .bashrc file will, after logging in via ssh, look for any unattached screen sessions and automatically attach to the first one found. If only attached sessions are found then a list of these will be outputted to std out. Finally, If there are no screen sessions running at all then a new screen session will be created.

Bash script for keeping Debian & Ubuntu systems up to date

This script will do a bunch of things - it's main purpose is to help keep apt based systems up to date. Check out the top part of this script for a more in depth explanation.

bawdo.com was slow

I never really use this site

Since making this site some years ago I have let it sit about and pretty much rot. However, today I was playing around making a web crawler of sorts and was testing it against my own site. This is when I found it was taking around 14 seconds to serve the front page.

Connecting a KDDI W41H mobile phone to a Linux box

My mobile phone is a W41H PacketWIN enabled gadget from KDDI/Hitachi. I contacted KDDI today to find out if they supported Linux and or Mac.

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Convert a MySQL DB from utf8 to UTF8

I had a utf8 collated MySQL 4.1 db that contained both English and Japanese text. I dumped the data and then tried to migrate it into my new MySQL 5.0.26 installation. Of course being a bit lazy I did not take the time to check things out properly and was not surprised to find that all Japanese text had become mojibake. I set off on a mission to fix the problem.