Monthly Archives: November 2009

Book Nostalgia…

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Anyone out there who is around my age (late 20′s) ever read a book called Lake Fear by Ian McMahan? I read that when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, and I loved it.

It was about a boy who stumbled across an artificial intelligence in a computer system named ALEC, and befriended it. They solved mysteries together. It sounds dorky now, but for a 9 year old who is into computers, its the coolest thing ever. It helped spark my imagination into what was possible with computers, deepened my interest into them even more, and inspired parts of my Lego universe.

I picked up the book at a local library a few days ago. I sat down to read it tonight and finished it in a flash. It took me a week when I was in school! I have to say, it’s been one of the most fond trips down memory lane I’ve had in a while.

Server Upgrades…

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I am going to be upgrading Inanis.net today, bringing the OS version level up two spots so I can do a 32-bit to 64-bit conversion. Outages will occur. Life will move on.

Double the bits, 2^32 more fun. (Maths. Weird.)

I must be the only server admin who updates a production server every time a new release comes out just to say, “Hey, I have the new release!”

UPDATE: OS upgrades complete. YAY, or whatever. 2:30p 11/27/2009

Inanis + Droid = SCREE

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I got a Motorola DROID phone to replace the old Motorola Q9c I had.

If the iPhone is the Jesus Phone, then this thing is the God Phone. It is simply phenomenal.

I won’t go into detail of the phone itself here, because world+dog has already done that, but I will say this: The phone is easier to use with Microsoft Exchange features than my previous Microsoft Windows Mobile phone.

I’ll give you a minute to let that sink in.

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Yeah. I said it. You read it. Wanna fight about it?

Dumping MySQL and Moving It

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So, does anyone out there who follows my blog know how to take the ENITRE OPERATIONAL STATE, including GRANTS (or permissions, or whatever you call them), usernames and associated passwords and all the table/db data and move it from one MySQL server to another and get it to work?

I am trying to move Inanis.net to a new platform and I can’t seem to get the MySQL permissions to work correctly. I use the command mysqldump -u root --all-databases  > filename.sql to dump the data from the old box and something similar to pop it into the new box. I then copy my entire web directory (all the php apps like wordpress and mediawiki sit there) into the same location on the new box. I navigate to any of the web apps and get complaints about the webapps’ permission being denied because my damn SQL username/password combos are invalid.

So, isn’t this -all-databases trick supposed to dump the entire frigging system state, or does it do everything but users and permissions? If the case is the latter, that is the most asinine, inane thing I have seen in a while.

Or maybe I’m just dumb, tired, old, inexperienced or a mix of them all. Maybe I just forgot to do a FLUSH PRIVILEGES after my import- I dunno.

Leave ideas in the comments. Right now, I must go to sleep and dream about another day sitting behind a desk making money, all the while desiring just to get home to the SO and watch Jeopardy.