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That’s right! Oracle is on the verge of purchasing MySQL which makes its future unknown at this time. However, the EC must approve the purchase before Oracle can move forward.

Read the following article and please do your part in letting the EC know what you think!

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

Yeah, we all know by now that the http://rafb.net paste site is going off-line. Seven years of dedication to a free pastebin for the world.

Well, after a few talks with some folks and after being pressed in to doing (hehe) this, I’ve switched http://pastebin.slackadelic.com to use the code from rafb.net.

Thanks go out to edman007 from ##slackware on freenode for his help in tracking down and fixing a few odd issues with the code. It even works with paste scripts! Right now the official script is Pastelling. The script was originally written by Steven Robson Pastelling, aka rafb.pl, was written by _pragma, but is being hosted on github by Michiel van Wessem.

If you happen to be one of the leechers that has recently gotten pwn3d by my little change in how I publish my images.

Drop me a line! dominian@slackadelic.com

I know a few of you have been searching.. I can see you in mah logs!

In the process of securing my blog, I just so happened to be looking through the logs and found a few leechers for images on my site.  Unfortunately for them the power of Apache and htaccess files makes it possible for me to “serve” up a different image than requested.

This, is what I did.  Was it funny? Oh you bet it was.  Do I get satisfaction from their hardship?  You bet I do.

Yeah, they may have hated it, but I hate it more when someone leeches MY bandwidth and MY resources for their own benefit.  Or was it the fact they were just too ignorant to do it correctly; too lazy to do it correctly.   The reason matters not.. I really don’t care.  They… got….pwn3d!

One site, at this point, has already pulled the image I put in its place. The other sites, lets just say, one is a tiled background, the others are smack dab in the middle of popular articles. Ooops!

That’s right, Fred has released 12.2 of Slamd64!

Get it at your favorite mirror!

Fred has pushed another round of updates to Slamd64. However, he’s still not calling this “stable” due to lack of testing at this time. Its only a few packages at this time and I’d say we are getting close!

Download, upgrade, and test! I’d like to see 12.2 FINAL before the end of the week!

I just found out about this add-on for Firefox called ScribeFire which allows you to post to your blog from within Firefox.. like.. with this post!

Just thought I would let ya know

A few nights ago we had quite a storm. Hail, intense lightning, heavy winds, and torrential downpours.

Fortunate for us, we didn’t get hit too hard, but our neighbor’s house took a hit from lightning. Unfortunately, that bolt was powerful enough to travel across the yard, into our home, and blow out our icemaker in the fridge. Luckily for us, it was the only damage to our home.

 

I’ve created a gallery with some pictures my family and I snapped today.

Check it out: http://slackadelic.com/flood-2008/

Well, due to the rain lately pretty much anything and everything out of Columbus, Indiana is shut down due to high water. Main interstate is closed just north of here and the east/west state highways are closed as well. Looks like my weekend just got extended!

HERE is a taste of what we are seeing. This isn’t anywhere NEAR where my family and I live, but this is actually my cousin’s neighborhood just across town.  They also live less than an 1/8 of a mile from where we used to live.  The area we used to live in was evacuated early Saturday afternoon/evening due to major flash floods from the failure of two northern dams close to the area.  Thank goodness we moved when we did!