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MySQL 4.0 -> 4.1 collation / character issues

useful — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:21:06 +0000

Just moved from MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 and seeing wierd characters everywhere? Well I had this ‘privelage’ enforced by a host without any notice, so it was bloody important to get this up and running.

Here’s how to fix it

Firstly dump your existing MySQL 4.0 database
mysqldump –user=root -p –default-character-set=latin1
–skip-set-charset database_name > database_name.sql

Run this regular expression against the sql dump and output to new file
sed -r ‘s/latin1/utf8/g’ database_name.sql > database_name.utf.sqlDrop the database on MySQL 4.1 if it exists, create the database with default character sets
mysql –user=root -p –execute=”DROP DATABASE database_name; CREATE
DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;”

Finally reimport the SQL dump that has been through SED
mysql –user=root -p –default-character-set=utf8 database_name <
database_name.utf.sql

Go back to your site, F5 and pray

sku011.cab

useful — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:52:00 +0000

The post with the fix for the annoying sku011.cab problem has moved over to technotes

Linux disable local ctrl+alt+delete

useful — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:04:41 +0000

I have a linux box on a KVM – a few times I’ve switched over to it and done the ctrl+alt+del by accident (expecting an NT login) – and Unfortunately on fedora out of the box this shuts the machine down – not very good in office hours!

So I found this useful

In /etc/inittab

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
#ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo “ctrl+alt+del disabled”

No more accidental reboots….

this is teh test

useful — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:59:08 +0000

test yeah blah

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