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MongoDB distinct count

List of disctinct values for a FIELD in COLLECTION: db.COLLECTION.distinct(“FIELDNAME”, {}) Count of the same: db.COLLECTION.distinct(“FIELDNAME”, {}).count

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How to move MySQL storage to RamFS or TmpFS partition

Whether moving all MySQL storage to a tmpfs helps with speeding it up or not is questionable but I needed to do for some testing purposes, so this is a short overview of how I did that hopefully will be … Continue reading

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Apache 2 and HTTP Authentication with PAM

There are 2 ways(at least that I know of) to get Apache 2 to use PAM for http auth: Old mod_auth_pam, which I believe is not developed anymore and also posses some security risks Newer mod_authnz_external and pwauth This little … Continue reading

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How to play a .ogv file

Lately I’ve been putting together a lot of videos and all of them in OGV format(for obvious reasons ). Sharing those with my ‘Windows’ friends often raises the same question – “How do I play those ogv files?” Here is … Continue reading

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Installing Mercurial 1.5, 1.6 or 1.7 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

Lycid Lynx’ repository by default set to install Mercurial 1.4.x, which is great, but as of today that’s already 3 major releases behind To get yourself on the latest and greatest version of Mercurial there are 2 options: build from … Continue reading

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Advanced Web Ranking on Ubuntu: Fixing “SQLite Could Not Be Found” Issue

“SQLite Could Not Be Found Issue” that you see when running AWR on 64bit Linux(in my case Ubuntu 10.04 ) is caused by the fact that AWR relies on 32bit JRE(you can read about this on AWR’s forum). Problem could … Continue reading

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MySQL5 TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDUIMINT, INT, BIGINT boundaries

From MySQL Documentation, boundaries of the numerical types are as follows: Type Min Value Max Value Bytes TINYINT -128 127 1 TINYINT UNSIGNED 0 255 1 SMALLINT -32,768 32,767 2 SMALLINT UNSIGNED 0 65,535 2 MEDIUMINT -8,388,608 8,388,607 3 MEDIUMINT … Continue reading

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Find and Replace Across Multiple Files

Need to replace broken links across 1000 html files? If you’re using linux/unix/macosx it’s just fire up the terminal and use this: find -iname “*.htm” -exec sed -i ‘s/search/replace/’ {} \; search – is regex(or a string in the simplest … Continue reading

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