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Ma.gnolia Site Down For The Count

I just tried to save a bookmark to one of my favorite bookmarking sites, ma.gnolia.com. To my dismay however, I received the following message.“Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. For Ma.gnolia, this means that the service is offline and members’ bookmarks …

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Google Search, Huh?

So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for –secure-auth and –old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database flags? Nope. I saw two hits. One was a YouTube video of Dr …

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