It’s officially spring and everyone, including Stacy, is fully engaged in their spring cleaning activities. Stacy has an older computer, it runs a little bit slow and is very unorganized, so she came to me for help. Stacy asked, “Devon, I am cleaning everything else right now, how can I […]
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Today I was tasked with writing a backup script for our new MySQL Server. I’m a scripter/programmer by absolutely no means but I was kind of proud of this so I thought I would share. This particular script lists the databases and for each one, dumps it, appends the date […]
Today’s technology is tomorrow’s junk and there is nothing you can do about it. New computers will be released, faster processors will be manufactured and bigger hard drives will be announced. The exponential improvement of technology creates an exponential growth of computers in landfills. There is no way around it. […]
I received an email today! I guess that’s not really out of the ordinary but I had to start this post with something… The email was from Network Solutions! They had an answer as to why my databases were inaccessible for a couple days and then as to why everything […]
Image via Wikipedia Ever since I received my Gmail beta invitation in 2004, I have been progressively moving towards a Google lifestyle. You can see a little bit about what I’m talking about in this article I wrote a while ago. But today I wanted to share my love and […]
Continuing the wildly popular “Back To School” series, here is the latest installment. In the previous post you read about formatting your computer and then keeping it clean and running quickly. In this article, we will discuss a little bit about what you can do if you do end up […]
When using a computer, one of the most important types of security a user can feel is that of their files are safe. The best way to know that files are truly safe is to have a backup of them. With USB and external drives becoming so cheap these days, […]