Yeah, I know last month I said that I probably wouldn't be doing any more releases of MySQL from the Enterprise-only sources but I guess I lied. As soon as I saw that 5.0.48 was out I checked it out from BitKeeper and started working to turn that into a package that I could use to build my RPMs. Not wanting to unleash an untested copy of MySQL on the masses, and not knowing how my readers would react to my releasing packages made from an unofficial source tarball, I decided to keep that one private for a while and test it on my own systems.
Well, just about when it got to the point when I was going to release it to the wild, some kind soul went and released the official tarball for 5.0.48 Enterprise. The 5.0.48 binaries currently in my repo are made from the official sources, not my original BitKeeper sources. That said, given how well they worked out for me I am still not opposed to, in the future, releasing Enterprise versions of MySQL that are made from the BitKeeper sources and then later doing a respin if the official source tarball leaks out. If you have a concern about that, let me know.
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Whew! Given that it's been 8 months since the release of Apache's httpd 2.2.4 I was starting to wonder whether or not the httpd developers were on an extended vacation. That said, they've just released version 2.2.6 of their wonderful web server. That vacation theory must have been wrong, given that they skipped version 2.2.5 (something that is rarely done) and went straight to 2.2.6. This release is a big one, fixing five potential security issues and numerous bugs to provide a more stable platform.
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Well, it's been 3 months since the last release of PHP 5.2 but 5.2.4 is finally here. Unlike the earlier releases of PHP 5.2 which have included both performance/memory optimizations as well as fixes for critical bugs (security issues and otherwise), this release is aimed at improving the overall stability of the 5.2 release chain (no doubt aiming to improve the image of PHP 5.2 with 4.4 being discontinued at the end of the year) by fixing more than 120 small bugs, as well as taking the opportunity to fix a few low-level security holes.
The PHP development team didn't slap a "0mg!!! j00 m|_|$7 |_|pd473 j00r php 0r 3l$3 j00 \/\/1ll b3 h4ck3d!!!" tag on this one but stability is always a good thing so I would recommend that all of my readers upgrade when they get a chance. Really though, since I do all the work, do you really have an excuse NOT to update?
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It's been a long time coming (I believe the first time I mentioned creating packages for Enterprise Linux 5 was back in April), but yes, that's right, the packages from my EL4 repository have finally been recompiled for use under RHEL and CentOS 5!
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ModSecurity (mod_security) 2.1.2 has been added to my Yum Repository at the request of multiple users. ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall that can help to minimize the threat from attacks such as SQL injections, protocol violations, and other common attacks. The standard configuration is courtesy of the ModSecurity Core Rules and will do a pretty good job of protecting your site from all of the script-kiddies out there (although that's no excuse for not keeping your system up to date).
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Yes, that's right, today I turn 25 years old. For those curious about the grand old year of 1982, the following are just a few of the notable things that happened:
- January 8 - AT&T agreed to break up its monopoly over the local phone exchanges (creating the "Baby Bells").
- January 17 - Temperatures drop to record lows on "Cold Sunday", including a drop to -27 °F in Chicago, Illinois (very near where I was born).
- May 2 - The Weather Channel airs on cable for the first time (threw this one in for my girlfriend, she was a Meteorology major in college).
- June 5 - The first Rubik's Cube World Championship is held in Budapest, Hungary.
- July2 - Lawn Chair Larry makes his maiden voyage at 16,000ft on a lawn chair tied to 45 weather balloons.
- August 17 - The first commercial Compact Disc (CD) is produced for release in Germany (it was ABBA's "The Visitors", if you're wondering)
- September 26 - Knight Rider, starring David Hasselhoff, first airs on NBC.
- October 1 - Sony launches the first consumer CD player (model CDP-101).
- December 26 - Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" award is given to the Computer.
Source: Wikipedia page on "1982"
For the past few months I have been providing "Red Hat"-style RPMs of the newest MySQL versions, including the Enterprise-only releases. Unfortunately it looks like that practice is going to come to an end. The developers of MySQL have decided to change the release policy of the Community version and the availability policy of the Enterprise sources.
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MySQL 5.0.46 is the newest release available to MySQL Enterprise customers. As with prior versions I've built my customary "Red Hat"-style RPMs. The source code for this release has since been removed from the main MySQL FTP site (don't worry, it wasn't pulled due to bugs, more on this in a later article) but I grabbed it before it disappeared.
As with all of my releases, all you’ll need to do is run a ‘yum update’ if you’re a user of my repository. Those wishing to compile from source can do so with the src.rpm at the bottom of this post but unless you’ve got a good reason, I wouldn’t recommend it because it takes forever and a day for the testing to run to completion and it will fail near the end if you’re one of those people that likes to compile as ‘root’.
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A few months back I posted a short review of the Auzentech X-Meridian sound card, as well my thoughts on a few of the popular aftermarket opamp upgrades. My decision at the time was that I preferred the TI/Burr Brown OPA2107 for its lack of the typical Burr Brown sound with a solid mid-to-high range and cleaner bass.
That said, 4 months later all four OPA2107 opamps have failed!
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