Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 16-01-2008
This is an alternative to mysqldump. It locks tables but should be faster and thus more suitable for taking an online backup.
# perform an online backup into /backup/location
$ mysqlhotcopy -u root -p password database_name /backup/location
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 15-01-2008
Which version of Ruby and Rails am I running?
Use these commands to figure out what versions you are running:
$ ruby -v
$ gem list
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 12-01-2008
Firefox Behind the Scenes
Open about:cache in your address bar to see what Firefox has currently cached in memory and on the disk.
Open about:config to change a bunch of configuration settings that aren't available in the UI.
I've looked at this a couple times in regards to Firefox caching javascript files downloaded over an SSL (HTTPS) connection. By default, it doesn't cache any SSL to disk (only to memory).