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db4free.net’s protest against SOPA & PIPA
Lets hope this is never necessary again! Because it’s never wrong to fight for the right thing. For our internet! Not some government’s!
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db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA
db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA and will stay down for 24 hours, starting January 18, 2012 at 02:00 UTC. Learn more on what this is all about at americancensorship.org … … and why the WEB GOES … Continue reading
Posted in db4free.net, MySQL, PlanetMySQL, Politics, WWW
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Another much needed cleanup
db4free.net had a great time of pretty flawless running recently. No outages, no emergencies, quite relaxing for an administrator. Except for one problem which got increasingly worse and worse: performance. It was time to drop some users again. Who did … Continue reading
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db4free.net now running MySQL 5.6
db4free.net has been updated again. The server now runs MySQL 5.6.4 m7, the very latest, and lets hope, the very greatest. Enjoy!
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Moons – not Earth’s, but Jupiter’s … proudly presenting: the Galileans
Taking good pictures of astronomical objects is quite challenging. Especially if you don’t own highly advanced (and very expensive) equipment. For quite a long time I thought that the only celestial object which is in my reach to take good … Continue reading
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Neptune, Vesta, ISS, Endeavour space shuttle, and a mag. -8 Iridium Flare
What makes a great observation night? You get to see a lot of things that you don’t get to see every day. This night (morning of May 31, 2011) was good weather and good sight. Basically I put out the … Continue reading
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5th anniversary working for MySQL
On May 17, 2006 – exactly 5 years ago – I started my new job as web developer at MySQL AB. Since then I closed 3,049 web requests, worked with 9 colleagues in the web team, had 4 direct managers, … Continue reading
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Concerned about db4free.net’s future?
Recently there were some server issues at db4free.net which raised some concerns over a possible soon end of db4free.net. Here are 3 facts that should convince you that there is no reason for concern: db4free.net has doubled (!) its visit … Continue reading
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db4free.net running on new server
After the recent InnoDB corruption, db4free.net has moved onto a new server (from a new service provider), starting over with a fresh MySQL server for the users. The old server can be accessed through phpMyAdmin at http://www.db4free.net/phpMyAdmin/. Select the 2nd … Continue reading
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