Ramblings

but I’m going to write it anyway…. “I think this is the best phone I’ve ever owned”. It’s about a device running Windows Mobile. Would I say it was “good”… hrrm… not sure… “okay” at least. It would be “very good” if syncing with my Linux desktop worked remotely easily.

One thing i love is that from the home screen (Welcome screen in WM5 language) you can start typing and you can choose to either dial that number, or choose from the search of your address book that just happened. Awesome. No jumping through menus just to search the address book!

If anyone knows how to make the in-built email client not do outlook style “include message in reply” and instead actually quote the message, i’d be rather grateful.

fring is also a rather cool IM/VoIP app that I can see myself making a fair bit of use of when on a WiFi network around the place (and IM on the go over GPRS).

I just have to go and get a 3G SIM card to make data work…

synce-registry -w HKLM Software/Microsoft/Internet\ Explorer/AboutURLs home ‘http://www.google.com.au/m’

Why you have to edit the registry to change the home page is certainly beyond me.

This year, it seesm that whenever I go out for significant travel, the following things will break on my trip:

• a laptop power supply
• a disk

At least this time the disk is part of a RAID1 array.

Oh, and for some reason my mythbackend stopped doing anything a few days ago…. and I wasn’t checking it. grr… annoying. At least there’s not much on TV.

I need hack time with music as the only other thing going on.

I just stuck my earphones in for the first time since I got here and pressed that button on the ipod that makes Tool’s 10,000 Days start playing. Bliss, pure hacking bliss.

possibly:

“Achieving Web 2.0 Social Networking Synergies with NDBAPI through MySQL Proxy”

(yet another possible cool thing coming from a quick hack at DevConf)

So, here is an Alpha quality port of the MySQL Cluster management server to Win32 based on the current MySQL 5.0 tree.

This isn’t going into 5.0, so don’t expect to ever have that.

This isn’t going into 5.1 either, so don’t expect it there.

It’ll go into some future release at some level of general “supported” status that has yet to be decided.

ONLY USE THIS FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES.
IT IS EARLY RELEASE - IT HARMS PUPPIES!

But, it would be great for those who may be interested in having a ndb_mgmd on Win32 at some point to grab the binary, have a play and find some bugs.

For any bugs filed, please submit to bugs.mysql.com and explicitly mention that it’s version “5.0.50-ndbwin32r1″ and mention that it’s the specific build (i.e. it shouldn’t go through the normal bug verification procedure and instead end up with me looking at it directly).

So, here’s the files:

• Patch series
  http://www.flamingspork.com/mysql/mysql-5.0.50-ndbwin32r1/patches
• Source tree used to build (11.8MB):
  http://www.flamingspork.com/mysql/mysql-5.0.50-ndbwin32r1/mysql-5.0.50.tar.gz
• Built source tree (the ndb_mgmd.exe, all the intermediate object files, symbol files and whatever else cmake and Visual Studio go and create) (32.7MB)
  http://www.flamingspork.com/mysql/mysql-5.0.50-ndbwin32r1/mysql-5.0.50-ndbwin32r1-built.tar.gz
• Just the executable (ndb_mgmd.exe - debug built) (3.2MB):
  http://www.flamingspork.com/mysql/mysql-5.0.50-ndbwin32r1/ndb_mgmd.exe

Hopefully this brings you joy.

Oh, and yes, you can go and run it under WINE so you don’t have to actually use MS Windows.

enjoy!

“MySQL Cluster: We don’t need no stinkin FOREIGN KEYS”

and, of course: “Ban HP-UX Now!”

Any design for a “I’m Highly Available” shirt is pure speculation…. but totally awesome (and a cookie for anybody who a) makes them or b) wears them)

Yes, I really, really really dislike the Microsoft Windows platform. I think you have to approach insanity to even remotely consider using it in a HA environment.

That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t support it. Switching an entire software stack can be a lot of work. Much better to gradually move to complete freedom and sanity.

Well… there’s been some work. Even some in-progress patches. Being involved with this has just perfectly refreshed my memory of why I left the platform. Oh my it’s a horrible, horrible platform. Everything from UI to API… ick.

Expect something around soon….

Go see either my Flickr stream, and I’ll get things onto my Gallery as well.

Arrived early morning, not much sleep, took forever to get to hotel and then had to wait for room (double not happy), got some work done in the office and am now in desperate need of sleep before a way too early start.

(The weird thing is that the reason behind this post has nothing to do with being in Japan)