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Testing Windows IO with SQLIO and SysBench
To benchmark IO on Linux and MySQL transaction processing, SysBench is a popular choice that can do both. After poking around at the source code, it seems PostgreSQL and Oracle are also included for transaction processing testing if you have the proper header files, but I didn’t test those. To benchmark IO on Windows and…
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Having fun with MySQL and Python: converting MySQL character set to utf8
Lately I worked quite a bit with Python and Linux, writing monitoring and automation utilities. I am in a transition period, so I thought I ought to write some Python stuff interfacing with MySQL for fun, and start positioning myself for expanded career horizon, I hope. To get started, I thought it would be fun…
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More Dokuwiki notes
A few months back I created a wiki site for Chinese/Foreign names (people, place, objects) translations, where I wanted to collect names rendered differently in different eras and different regions. The primary purpose is to aid research and history reading, so public participation and suggestion is welcome. I will add more entries there because I’ve…
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Remove common lines from files with Python
I am digging Python. I am writing small pieces of code that does one thing and does it well, kind of like building a solid, reliable Lego piece. When I have a collection of them, I can snap ’em together to make something useful. In fact, I’ve used Python to generate some content behind the…
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Quick notes for DokuWiki
Notes from tonight’s playing with DokuWiki. Initially saved it as a text file, then thought, what the hell, it might benefit somebody. 1. Got DokuWiki. Learned this from my buddy Baron, who I admire and whose recommendations I take seriously. 2. Fired up ami-23b6534a, an Amazon virtual instance with Apache pre-configured. /var/www/html is the web…