Enabling Autorecovery for the Tungsten Replicator

Author: , August 7th, 2019

The replicator is a critical piece of the Tungsten Clustering solution for MySQL / MariaDB, as well as its own stand-alone data replication product. Automatic recovery enables the replicator to go back online in the event of a transient failure. In this blog, we discuss how to enable Autorecovery.

How To Resize an ext3 Filesystem

Author: , August 31st, 2014

I had to replace an ailing root volume on AWS, so I decided to double the size when I created the new volume from snapshot. After booting, I realized that df still showed the old filesystem size of 10GB, not the new size of 20GB Here is the solution: resize2fs /dev/xvda1

How To Change Your iBank Online Account Password

Author: , November 19th, 2012

Many thanks to my lovely wife Naomi for this excellent tip! iBank doesn’t make it easy to change the password you use for accounts you are downloading transactions from. I couldn’t find it within the options, or anything relevant within their documentation or Help options. It appears that it needs to be done through your […]