Archive for August, 2008

Yellowjacket Cleans Herself

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Ordinarily, I’m a little nervous around yellowjackets. This one seemed to care less that I was there, and even after several minutes I couldn’t get her to fly away. She was too busy cleaning herself.

First, she cleaned her antennae.

…with her mouth.

Then she started cleaning the rest of her body. I like this […]

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Converting MySQL MyISAM tables to InnoDB

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

It’s a one-liner:

for t in \
$(mysql -u your_username \
-pyour_password \
--batch --column-names=false \
[…]

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