While it’s fairly easy to reach your host OS and the Internet from your brand new VM on Oracle VirtualBox, since that should work out of the box, making it reachable from your host OS is less obvious.  If your VM stays isolated, it won’t be much use, especially if you want...read more >>

The purpose of this article is to help a system administrator recover live production data from InnoDB tables of a MySQL database sitting on a damaged Debian server, for example after a crash of the system disk.

Obviously, every crash has its own causes and...read more >>

Sometimes you just want to give a bit of life to a block of a web page.  We all know what geolocation can do, but these functions are relatively recent, and mostly used to supply related contents for marketing purposes.
What I suggest here is a function that returns an...read more >>