mysqldump: unknown option ‘–no-beep’ Here’s a great gotcha! I’ve just upgraded my Windows test server to run MySQL Community edition 5.6.25 I have a script which runs daily to dump some of the database files from test website. The command used is MySQLDump and each dump is performed using a line of script something like […]
It’s Not My Fault This Time Either! Two news items caught my eye today – Google breaking privacy laws (BBC article) and BT’s broadband network falling over again (PC Pro article). Google “inadvertently” collected private data (including passwords) from unsecured WiFi connections. At least you know they’ve done it and are going to ditch the […]
Securing data on your PC This morning I spoke at a 4networking meeting in Leicester about securing data on your PC. This post expands on that a bit and includes links to relevant websites to flesh it out a bit. Over recent years we’ve heard of people (mostly government!) leaving laptops on trains, in taxis […]
Top Ten Reasons To Use Cloud Backup Ease of use – the simple set and forget features of the software mean that you simply choose what you want backed up and when. On demand or on a set schedule your data is automatically sent to our two data centres Cost – full data protection for […]
Cleaning up your computer In early December last year, I was contacted by one of my clients. I’ll call him Bob, to protect the innocent. Bob’s anti-virus software was reporting that he had a Trojan on his computer. Sensibly, he had run a full scan of his system, but no viruses or Trojans had shown […]