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Sorry about not posting much recently, but I’ve been busy getting ready to go back to college.  And after a year, of working I am going back down to college.  I am all packed up, and I leave tomorrow morning.  I am going down to Clearwater Christian College.  I am transfering down there, so I have a lot of work to do to get all the classes I need before I graduate.  My sister also goes there and she convinced me to transfer there.  Ironically she is sitting out a semester to recover from a wrist injury (she is a piano major).  So tomorrow, I will attempt to drive 1000 miles from Philly to Clearwater in one day by myself.  Should be fun.  After I get settled, I’ll have lots of free time for the beach, weightlifting, girls, video games, and blogging.  I guess I’ll have studying to do too, but since I haven’t done that in a while, I probably won’t start that till its too late

This list of 100 things you don’t want to here your System Administrator say comes from PacketStorm Unix Humor. And I’ve got to admit, I’ve said several of these lines before.
1. Uh-oh…..
2. Shit!!
3. What the hell!?
4. Go get your backup tape. (You do have a backup tape?)
5. That’s SOOOOO bizarre.
6. Wow!! Look at this…..
7. Hey!! The suns don’t do this.
8. Terminated??!
9. What software license?
10. Well, it’s doing something…..

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AOL’s research department released a dataset containing the search history of 500 thousand users with 20 million search terms. They released it for: “The goal of this collection is to provide real query log data that is based on real users. It could be used for personalization, query reformulation or other types of search research.” AOL soon removed the data from their site, but the damage has already been done and mirrors are all over the net.

This data is very valuable for marketers, SEOs, and spammers. The problem with the data is that it identifies users with a unique id. Thus all searched from a particular user are related with this id. And with enough searches it can be possible to determine who the person is. Since AOL uses google as its search engine, this is essentually the same data that Google fought the goverment to keep it from them. Now it is all over the net. And people are finding all kinds of interesting info.

It is only a matter of time until someone releases a web interface to search and parse this data. I am sure google link spammers are already parsing this data to find the best keywords to spam. I would imagine that google will have an interesting response soon. And this is definitly going to hurt aol. I am glad that I am not using aol for anything other than aim, but it would not suprise me if I found my chats online soon.

Of course I have already downloaded the data, and though I don’t have much time with moving in two weeks, I will probably import the data in MYSQL and do a few queries. >:)

These are a few tips on setting passwords in MySql from the Linux command line I figured out while setting up a MySql db server.

To set the root password run this: “mysql -u root mysql” Then run this query: “SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD(’password‘);” at the MySql prompt replacing the italics with the password.

Then run this command to connect to the database: “mysql -u root -p mysql” and enter your password.

Also to completely wipe everything associated with the database run “rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/*” and restart MySql server (/etc/init.d/mysqld start). This can be helpful to reset a forgotten root password, although there are less destructive ways.

I have finally created a JavaScript version of my C# password generator. The javascript version located here will generate multiple random passwords containing upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Just hit the generate button to get your passwords. Remember your passwords and keep them in a safe place.

I have several ideas to extend the functionality of this tool, and I will work on them when I get time over the next few months. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Well tonight I reinstalled Windows XP on my computer. However I put the 32-bit version on instead of 64-bit which I had on before. I was having too many driver problems, and found I didn’t get any benefits from x64.

The install went smoothly, however I found out that Windows XP before sp1 does not support hard drives more than 130gb. But once I installed sp2, it recognized the rest of the hard drive. I just had to use Partition Magic to combine the partitions.

I would have liked to kept Windows XP x64, but it still has too many driver problems and program incompatibilities to be viable for a typical desktop setup.