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MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu

Enlarge / Warning: Learning the care and feeding of MySQL instances does not grant knowledge of or safe interaction with actual marine mammals. (credit: Oracle) One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making […]

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Configuring vim: The right way, the wrong way, and the Hutchinson way

Enlarge / Who doesn’t like cyan comments in their text editor? Lee Hutchinson, that’s who. (credit: Jim Salter) One fine Monday morning, Ars Technica Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson came to me with a problem: the colors in his text editor, in his humble opinion, had Begun To Suck. In Lee’s 20 years or so […]