I have a database that I need to replicate to several slaves. It includes one innodb table, and the rest are all MyISAM.

It's really not that tough once you get all the details right. I made the decision to replicate the innodb table to a MyISAM table on the slave since I'm only using it because of write locking on the master. Because of this I used mysqldump to create a SQL file for import into the slave, and modified the table type on it before importing. Other than that detail, I pretty much followed these directions.

I'm implementing a profanity 'filter' of sorts, and needed a list of profane words to feed it. Finding a list online wasn't easy.

I finally found someone who actually had a SQL import file designed exactly for what I needed.

We were unhappy with most of the photographs our professional photographer shot for our new marketing plan, so I've been slowly replacing them.

Today I did a shot for the website (that's me on the left):

And headshots for the corporate bio page:

Takes talent to take your own picture ;-)

I'm trying to play around with RAW image photography instead of JPG, but I've been finding Linux not very cooperative with my Olympus E-510 camera.

Then, I stumbled on a Linux beta version of something called LightZone. This thing is awesome.

Read on for a few sample images and details of my issues.My default was to try to open my RAW images in The Gimp, but I quickly found that every image was garbage, regardless of what raw image library I installed. And when I say garbage, I mean... literally just random noise.

A quick poke around Synaptic package manager presented me with something called RawStudio. Wow, if this thing worked properly, I could imagine it being the be-all end all of open-source RAW management and basic adjustments. Unfortunately this is the best it would produce:

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The Church has changed it's website again, and the latest lesson manual is not automatically detected and downloaded by Thummim Reader. I'm working on a fix for this issue (along with some other enhancements to Thummim) but that didn't solve the fact that we all need the new Priesthood and Relief Society manual in Thummim format.

I just attempted to log into the digital photography review website forums at dpreview.com.

I was greeted with the following error:

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Why does this happen? Out of 5 RAID drive failures I've had or been witness to in my career, 3 of them had multiple drive failures, making the entire RAID process useless. You spend $800 - $1500 on a RAID controller card, and yet still, more than one dies. [READ MORE]In the case of multiple simultaneous hard drive failures I believe it boils down to one of two things:

Just a side note on today's weather. Taken with an Olympus e-510 DSLR camera at iso 100 shutter 1/100th and aperture of f/5.6. Post processing and conversion to B&W using The Gimp.

Generating an SSL Key and having it signed by a Certificate Authority is a daunting task. I was submitting my CSR to Entrust and they kept rejecting it but wouldn't say why. Finally I found a cool tool at Thawte.

Nice little tool. It will tell you exactly what is wrong with your CSR.

Microsoft is one of the larger advertisers in InformationWeek. IW has been known to spin a pro-Microsoft slant on most everything.

They have an article though titled 'Linux PC Models Multiply As Vista Struggles'

From the article:

I just gave Whitley $20 to put in the gas tank of the truck. She's purchased gas for the vehicles before, but always with the debit card.

She looked at me and said 'How do I pay with cash?'