The Botnet. It is a term that we have grown accustomed to hearing more and more often these days. These networks of zombie machines are responsible for much of the billions of Spam messages that find their way around the Internet every day. The Botnet is a blunt weapon of mass distraction costing billions of dollars in lost time, resources and fraud.
But botnets might be destined for more than just Spam. As it stands, botnets are some of the largest accumulations of computing power in the world today rivaled only by supercomputers and massive server farms such as those of Google. Read more…
The Future
botnet, emergent behavior, machine intelligence
We all know that we should backup our data regularly. This is doubly true when it is not our data but our employers data that we are entrusted with. There are two parts to any successful backup strategy: backup and restore. Often, the restore part is left as an exercise to the reader once needed. I will outline a few tip in this blog for how to make a simple and effective backup processes for a MySQL database. Read more…
Databases, MySQL, Technical
backup, database, MySQL, replication, restore
MySQL version 5.1 was released today as GA (Generally Available) which means that you can feel safe in using it in a production environment. Of course, any DBA worth their weight in salt should always test any new version personally before flipping the proverbial switch. If there is no need to upgrade (you don’t need the new features) then there is no reason to take the risk. As MySQL founder Monty points out on his blog, no release is perfect and 5.1 still has some bugs left in this release which, he feels, should have been addressed a while ago. Read more…
Databases, MySQL, Technical
5.1, database, MySQL