master

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Mysql255 doesn't tell you if it's a master/slave, which data is on it, should it be backed up?

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Quick take

an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of master gathered in one view.

noun

an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters"

noun

a person who has general authority over others

noun

a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for master.

noun

an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters"

noun

a person who has general authority over others

noun

a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

noun

directs the work of others

noun

presiding officer of a school

noun

an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

noun

an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

noun

someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution

noun

an authority qualified to teach apprentices

noun

key that secures entrance everywhere

verb

be or become completely proficient or skilled in; "She mastered Japanese in less than two years"

verb

get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"

verb

have dominance or the power to defeat over; "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems"

verb

have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of; "Do you control these data?"

adjective

most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"

Example sentences

Mysql255 doesn't tell you if it's a master/slave, which data is on it, should it be backed up?

I'll quote a master language teacher here, the late John DeFrancis.

> > I can go further and reset the master refs to their former shas if you'd like, or you can recover these yourself.

Before doing so, I want to merge in the recent changes from the remote master, so I do the familiar git pull.

Holy cow with the grandiosity of the title I would expect a master 5 year plan about how Pipes will take over the world.

Nobody expects to be a master in anything after sitting in a chair for 18 minutes.

I spent a couple of days sitting there, masquerading myself as a bot, and watching the botmaster interact with the bots.

From "The Zen of Programming":------Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle.

It also does master/master replication, and is generally a really nice database to work with from a devops point of view.

My best guess as to why this is is so that the bot master could track the total number of zombies and compare it to how many were actively connected to the botnet.

The botmaster would issue commands that I can't really recall anymore, but I do remember seeing a lot of commands that I assumed told the bots to download extra malware from a remote host.

> > But, no worries: I've gone through each of the repos listed above and done the following : > > * retrieved the SHA for the previous `master` before you force-pushed > * created a branch called `recovery` pointing to each former master > > In some cases, these are the same.