Ramblings

• fucking cancelled trains #
• melbourne public transport sucks #
• oh my its so hot even in air con #
• still hot #
• at blvd in city #
• oka… although understaffed at bar #
• new yea and bon jovi #
• 27-37 tomorrow #
• that’s degrees C #
• fucking cunts of public transport. every hour. just fuck off #

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• @brianaker: not the only one behind in expense reports #
• new stereo, Buffy musical. world of awesome #

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• Put in Nirvana: MTV Unplugged DVD and it just starts playing… no bullshit splash screens and waiting. +one billion points #
• hail #
• intense thunder #
• like 10 seconds of thunder… wow #
• actually… it’s still going… #
• now it’s done. #

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• mmm… $foo #
• turns out if i print two documents, i want two documents printed. not one. #
• GAH #
• evince seems to not print a document if you hit the close box too soon after selecting print #
• it seems as though the entire world is ahead of Australia in maternity and parental leave. #
• Even Yemen is ahead of us :( #
• note to self: when having children, move to sweden. #
• aparrently i’m a nerd for using ! to mean not in ICQ messages… #

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• mmm…. beer.
  (wanting) #

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Neither of the books I’ve been an author of has been just me. For Practical MythTV (Christmas is coming, buy it for all your TV and tech loving friends!), Michael Still and I worked hard to get a well rounded and practical (not to mention good) book. I think we succeeded - certainly has gotten positive reviews (check the amazon page).

For my second endeavor (just to make it fun, I was working on both at the same time) we have a much longer list of authors. The aim was to write a study guide for those wishing to be certified in MySQL Cluster. Being a developer with a fair bit of knowledge in the product (and somebody who also presents and writes) - I was a natural fit to join the team (some may say “roped into the team”… and they could possibly be me, but I couldn’t possibly comment).

My fellow authors:

• Jon Stephens
  Among other things, he’s brought the MySQL Cluster section of the MySQL Manual forward leaps and bounds. He also edited the study guide - no doubt a daunting task.
• Mike Krukenberg
  Author of Pro MySQL (along with Jay Pipes) and numerous blog posts on MySQL and related topics.
• Roland Bouman
  Who took on the brave task of the actual Certification. This is a certification to be proud of - really makes sure that people deserve it without being overly hard or tricky.
• Solomon Chang
  founding member of LAMPSIG of Los Angeles and a professional DBA.

So, the book is now shipping, from lulu.com (an on-demand printing service) for $49.99USD.
MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide by Jon Stephens, Mike Kruckenberg, Roland Bouman, Stewart Smith, Solomon Chang

It feels good to have it out there now. Daniel va Eeden has received his copy (shipping box and all!). This is another book you should buy for all your database friends  everybody you’ve ever met.

• i’ve installed gnash. free flash plugin. works for youtube #
• let’s face it, what’s flash out there that isn’t youtube? and even then, is youtube really worth it? #
• Resident Evil:
  987m evolution
  479m evolution-data- #
• New theory of /usr/bin/evolution - expands to fit all memory. #

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• echo "(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)" >> ~/.emacs #
• nearly have NDB$INFO scanning table 0 inside kernel… #
• (in other words, major step towards being able to scan NDB$INFO tables from an API) #
• got it! got a table list via TRANSID_AI #
• (that’s the same signal format we use for normal rows… so should have code reuse) #

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• yahoo messenger seems to be flooded with spam :( #
• i wonder why i bother connecting to it #
• valleywag is credited in The Age. #
• let me say that again: valleywag is credited in theage! #
• turns out I didn’t have RCS installed. wow. how times change #

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• looking at how InnoDB does system variables in the mysql server (it does it the pluggable way). Trying to put this into NDB #
• @brianaker: we may do… not top of priority list… but I had a patch ages ago that did most of this stuff.. and it wasn’t *too* hard.. … #
• hrrm… seems like system variables for plugins are PLUGIN_NAME + underscore + sysvar name. #
• some NDB arguments/system variables working in plugin infrastructure #

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• Buffy! #
• wish i had decent speakers…. still gathering the courage to go send the cash…maybe new year sales… #

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• fixing up mum’s computer… something went wrong during ubuntu upgrade :( #
• @bytebot: but should be MySQL paying #
• @bytebot: earlybird maybe? #

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• @bytebot threads are evil :) #

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All useful software is buggy.

• Solaris is annoying. #
• OpenSolaris Indiana holds hope of not being… although the preview ISO doesn’t seem to work in KVM :( #
• i think i’ve fixed the Solaris ndb_restore problem #
• no thanks to dbx #
• and now I think I’ve fixed the (strange) OSX build problem #

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• currently working on: ndb$info, ndb on win32, ndb add node #
• merging ndb add node patches up to current telco… #
• I think we should make Master Of Puppets the official NDB song #

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• /me is sweating due to laptop being warm #
• words cannot express how much i hate fucking with software raid gone wrong #

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• hrmmm…. saturday…. i think this has to be bill day #

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