Monthly Archives: January 2008

Phisher aren’t even trying

Phishers aren’t even trying these days:

The following things stand out:

  • The date header is +0900. Suspicion rating: 2/10
  • The recorded log in time is in EST. The Halifax and myself are in GMT. Suspicion rating: 6/10
  • The recorded log in time hadn’t occured by the time I get the email. Suspicion rating: 8/10
  • I don’t bank with the Halifax. Suspicion rating: 10 million/10

Child-friendly pasting in vim

If you’ve got various indenting and text wrapping options turned on in vim, pasting
text into the editor results in screwed up results. You can get around
this by turning on paste mode using :set paste and off with
:set nopaste. To make things a little easier, you can use the
following snippet in your .vimrc to allow you to toggle paste
on and off using a single keypress:

nmap <F4> :set invpaste paste?<CR>
imap <F4> <C-O>:set invpaste<CR>
set pastetoggle=<F4>

(Warning: my vim settings have organically grown over the last
10 years, so they may not be the best or modern way of achieving an
effect.)

ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can’t create table ‘./Database/Table.frm’ (errno: 150)

If you’re trying to import a dump file created using
mysqldump and you get an error like: 

ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table './Database/Table.frm' (errno: 150)

Then you’ve just been bitten by mysqldump being far too stupid. The
problem occurs because mysqldump includes foreign key constraints in the
initial CREATE TABLE command, so if a table refers to a table
that doesn’t currently exist, it throws an error. mysqldump does
correctly disable the contraints when inserting data into the tables. The correct way for
this would be for mysqldump to create all the tables without the
constraints, use ALTER TABLE to add the constraints to the
tables, and then importing the data into the tables.

The workaround for this problem is to use:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
source dump.sql
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

Update: Someone has pointed out that it appears that
mysql 5 has fixed
this problem by including the above statements in the dump.