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Monthly Archives: November 2010
MySQL backup script with email support and lzma compression (for cron)
Let me share a shell script to perform a backup of a MySQL database. It is intended to run regularly (e.g. as cronjob). I created it carefully. Finally, it may distinguish itself from similar scripts by the following points: Continue reading
Javascript in PDF using LaTeX
Yesterday, I tried to measure the startup time of Adobe Reader (AR) on Windows and wondered if I could create a PDF file triggering the AR application exit on load of itself. For some hours, I wondered how the hell to include Javascript in a PDF document without having to use Acrobat. Continue reading