Split a large SQL dump by database

You created a MySQL backup of a large server installation with dozens of databases and wish to get the schema and data for one of them. You now have to deal with a file of hundreds of MB in a text editor. How convenient. Split a dump into several files You can quickly split this […]

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December 2014 links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. You can also take the time machine to November 2014. AI What if instead to understand how the brain works, we copy the neural connections as is? This is what the OpenWorm project tries to do with C. […]

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TCL and the SSL security issues: sslv3 alert handshake failure

Update 2016-01-15: With tcl-tls 1.6.7, it works out of the box without any need to configure cyphers. If you have reconfigured your OpenSSL to take care of the current security issues, you’ve disabled SSLv3 since POODLE discovery. Then, you could find unexpected behavior of TCL code. The package http isn’t the best to intercept and […]

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How to determine the SQLite filename from an open connection?

If the PHP SQLite3 class doesn’t provide a property or a method to return this information, SQLite engine has a PRAGMA statement to get or set internal data or modify the library behavior.

It will returns a row with seq, name, file fields respectively containing a sequence id, the internal name of the database […]

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Nasqueron landing page

Nasqueron is a collection of projects, so the homepage should allow to find a resource on one of these projects. The current prototype features a responsive background and a search widget. During development, it will be softly hidden by a landing page.       The painting used as background is Aurora Borealis from Frederic Edwin Church, an […]

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Use ssh-agent on Windows

ssh-agent is a part of OpenSSH to setup an agent. An agent is a piece of software to store the private keys in memory and ease agent forwarding. This is a requirement to painless SSH operations. Mark A. Hershberger explains here a popular way to configure ssh-agent on UNIX system. When you launch the agent […]

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FreeBSD port update: devel/git-review

The devel/git-review port has been updated to the latest version. Changelog for git-review 1.23 Fix str(None) bug in port detection for hook setup Fix pep8 deps for pyflakes version conflict. Expand multiple commit submission warning. Changelog for git-review 1.22 Provide usage help even if not in Git directory Document defaultremote option & site/user configs Allow […]

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