Murmurhash is a nice and speedy hashing algorithm that is handy for creating hash values based on strings. I use it often as benchmarks suggest it is one of the speedier implementations out there. Murmurhash can create 32-bit or 128-bit outputs. In...
The choice to use Linux is a complex one. It is not merely enough to select it as your operating system, but also to pick which distribution you wish to use, and while each features the same kernel at its core, the end user experience is quite...
I heard this one again last week, and I’m not sure why it’s still going around. Microsoft changed the behavior of Truncate Table to be able to be rolled back, but this myth had been taught to DBAs for so many years, that I think some...
URL shortener’s have proliferated in the past few years, mainly due to the confines of data length that mobile and social networks like Twitter apply. The following code example shows how to make a simple and efficient URL shortener, with...
By default, WHM gives you the option of using Spamhaus and/or Spamcop for added SPAM protection for incoming email. If you have additional DNSBL’s (DNS-based RBL’s) that you want Exim to check email against, you can easily enable them if...
Damn Small Linux (DSL) – a small, business card size computer operating system based on Knoppix. It was designed to run graphical environment and applications on old PC machines with 486 Pentium processors and very little memory.
InnoDB by default stores all data in one large file, typically referred to as the InnoDB tablespace. Without customisation, A file named ibdata1 at the root of your MySQL data directory will contain all your data and indexes. One problem that has...
Whether operating a commercial site, a directory, or a personal site, it is important to ensure you do not have ‘dead’ links on your website. Broken links; links that point to inactive domains or 404 pages are of little use to your site...