I have my aviation site Planenews on a FreeBSD server. As traffic increased, I was getting more database errors. Looking around the web for clues, I discovered that FreeBSD did not have a default my.cnf file in /usr/local/etc. You can find sample files in /usr/local/share/mysql. I used my-huge.cnf, renamed it to my.cnf, put it in [...]
I can’t tell you how many times an acquaintance or friend has come to me with a broken hard drive asking “Can you get my data back?” as if their lives depended on it. The experience can be quite dramatic. I feel like a doctor telling family members that their loved-one has passed away. Losing [...]
Useful information about forging knives, for beginners like me.
I wanted a rust-proof finish on my khukuri. The cheapest and easiest solution I came up with is parkerizing. Wikipedia: “Parkerizing (also called phosphating and phosphatizing) is a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear through the application of an electrochemical phosphate conversion coating.” This process is used [...]
The charcoal forge was fun to build and use, but let’s face it, it takes forever to heat-up and it is pretty dirty. If I made another one, it would be more of a closed design to concentrate and conserve heat, and would have a good hand-cranked blower. So, I went on Ebay and shopped [...]