The default settings for the MySQL command line client are a bit annoying. There’s no output paging; columns with more than 80 characters are wrapped making matching field name to field data difficult. Here’s a way to make life easier.
Monthly Archive: July 2007
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30
Jul
27
P7120D xorg.conf
Yeah, it’s ugly, but I thought others might make use of the xorg.conf from my groovy little fanless laptop, the Fujitsu Lifebook P7120D, running Gentoo Linux and xorg-server 1.2.0. I based this off of an xorg.conf I found on the web last year, and has been edited (a lot) as I found new information. This …
Jul
26
Asterisk, the incredible convergence machine
So, I finished my first run-through of getting an Asterisk PBX set up in my home. With the awesome community resource http://voip-info.org/, the book Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, and, of course, Asterisk’s own documentation and configuration file comments, I built myself a much more well-featured answering machine. Initially, I purchased two pieces of hardware …
Jul
26
Liftoff!
OK, well, here it is. I moved over the howtos and tips from Plone, and made nice little mod_rewrite rules to make that happen without losing their Googleness. I might post to announce them a bit later.
Jul
24
Linux-y stuff
Howdy! Well, I figured I might as well capture my computing adventures somewhere, and why not a blog? Yes, this site used to be managed by Plone. While I like Plone’s interface, the mono-purposed and complex framework (Zope) and its inability to use a common SQL database engine as its internal DB are too much …