I recently switched my blog from my own programming to using WordPress. I have long recognized WordPress as good a software project and it has stood the test of time. Not only has the software been around since 2003, it has continued to improve. The improvements to WordPress have allow the software to run more […]
Aggregating In SQL, the standard aggregation operators are SUM, MIN, MAX, and COUNT and we can apply them to the attributes of relations. For example we have a schema employee(eid, name, dob, hired_date, salary), which holds records on each of a company’s employees. We can COUNT and see how many employees the company has with […]
Using Public Key Cryptography and SSH Tools for Smooth Log In To log in to an SSH server without the needing to enter a password each time can be done in different ways. One way is to to configure your server to allow certain users (or certain users from certain hosts/networks/ip addresses [or ranges]) but […]
The Original Version Control System What is SCCS? SCCS stands for Source Code Control System; it is a suite of programs that are used together to manage the development of source code which is eventually compiled into usable software. SCCS can be used to manage other classes of text files (not only source code), but […]
Otherwise known as a LAMP server, the LAMP software stack consists of GNU\Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySql for a database, and PHP (or possibly Pearl or Python) as the programming language used to host a Web application. I’m going to assume a minimal install (I’ll be using debian-7.6.0-i386-CD-1.iso) [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd]. […]