Skipping Disk Check When Rebooting Linux Server

If you don’t run a disk check on a Linux server in awhile and you reboot, it may force a disk check, which can take 30+ minutes, and it’ll be offline the entire time. You can reboot and skip the check with shutdown -fr now or force a check with shutdown -Fr now. (via go2linux.org)

Natural Sorting for MySQL

MySQL doesn’t provide a way to perform natural sorting on a string, so if you have numbers in your data you may get results like this Product 110 Product 120 Product 13 Product 140 There are a lot of hacks available, but all of the ones I’ve seen only work in specific circumstances. The only […]

URL Parameters for Google Maps

Mapki has a detailed list of URL parameters for Google Maps. Setting daddr is useful when you want to create a link for a user to get directions. You can also control the zoom level, type of map (normal, satellite, terrain, etc), overlay information and lots of other things.

Ian Dunn

WordPress Developer

Monthly Archives: February 2010

Skipping Disk Check When Rebooting Linux Server

Natural Sorting for MySQL

URL Parameters for Google Maps