Vim-Fu

This is really useful script called tuning-primer.sh by Matt Montgomery.

It is a shell script that evaluates the following parameters in MySQL:

• slow query count
• long_query_time
• query_cache_size
• % query cache actually used
• max_connections
• thread_cache
• key_buffer_size
• ratio of sort_merge operations to sorts (sort_buffer_size)
• number of full joins
• ratio of disk tmp tables vrs in memory tmp tables (tmp_table_size)
• table_cache
• ratio of table locks immediate to table locks waited
• ratio of table scans (read_buffer_size)

To use the script add your user name and password to a [client] group in your ~/.my.cnf file

Here is a direct link: http://www.day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh

Not much to write about here.  You can use screen as a replacement for minicom. Who knew!?!?!  Screen will never stop amazing me with all the cool stuff that it can do.

To set the baud rate to 57,600:

To enable CTS/RTS handshake:

^a,k to end the session.
^a,i to check the status of the serial port.

Here is the .screenrc that I found on the Interweb and have been using for a little over a year now. I wish I knew who to give credit to.

It remaps the meta key from ^a to ^z so that I can still use ^a in bash to get to the beginning of the line. It also has a handy clock at the bottom of the screen. Enjoy!