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Archive for March, 2010

MySQL backup as separate sql files with rotation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A few days ago I accidentally dropped a MySQL database from my home development server. While my computer does automatically run a daily backup using:

mysqldump –all-databases

It does mean that all my databases are backed up into one massive single file; so it makes it a little bit tricky to pull out the database I was [...]

Apple’s App Store meets 1984

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In 1948 just after World War II George Orwell wrote a novel called 1984 about how Britain might have looked if a communism regime had come in to power. An excellent read if you haven’t read it already.
In 1984 Apple made a commercial:

Continuing their promotional campaign Apple in 1997 started to use the slogan: “Think [...]