Ramblings

• Dave’s "fixing xfs file systems faster" talk had good turnout, and was very enjoyable #
• live intrusion detection demo! #
• people who do demos in talks have gutS! #
• mikal’s new theory - collective noun for vomit - "a hangover of vomits" #

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• mmm… proxy #
• hacking NDB$INFO stuff. really annoying was sick last week and didn’t get hack time #
• @bytebot: hopefuly doesn’t crash maria :) #
• fuck dbus. why does it keep crashing on me! #
• ARRRGH #

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• mmm… proxy #
• hacking NDB$INFO stuff. really annoying was sick last week and didn’t get hack time #
• @bytebot: hopefuly doesn’t crash maria :) #
• fuck dbus. why does it keep crashing on me! #
• ARRRGH #

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• hi! #
• hi from my talk #
• hrrm… i should close gaim #
• fuck dbus #

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• /me wants laptop stickers too #
• feeling a lot better… like enough to actually go out of the house and do stuff. #

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• @brianaker: maybe something went round the meeting… me sick too :( #

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• arrrgghhh….. still no bags. none at all… #
• still here #
• still waiting #
• still waiting #
• fuckers have lost my bags #
• not happy at all #
• going to be until at least after lunch tomorrow before i get bags #
• lots of things i need to action on this week… bad flight back isn’t going to be helpful #

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• plane late, long line at customs, still no bags #
• just announced a furthur 15min delay #
• not happy jan #
• hungry #
• tired #

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• eep… this presenter is just too much… debug time with earphones. #
• we used to (and still do) call Australia "the arse end of the Internet". #
• I now transfer the title of "arse end of the internet" to the network at the ACM #
• peak of about 3.2kb/sec and more commonly about 400bytes/sec #
• cloning a mysql tree is a painful experience #
• tired… but finally some hrs to hack on stuf #

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is Jeb Miller. Not only does he manage to QA and break cluster (of course the whole point of QA) - this morning he brought in coffee. Marvellous. Brilliant. oh, and awesome.

I have a $10 bet (AUD or USD… whichever is worth more at the time) with Jeffrey r.e. a 5.1 GA release in $TIMEFRAME. He’s betting that it will be and I want to be proved wrong :)

(of course… who’s definition of a GA release we use hasn’t been mentioned… which will lead to a good laugh. :)

New Qantas safety scare - National - theage.com.au

This was my flight to LAX the other day. fun.

Here for the MySQL All Company Meeting. Arrived okay… albeit late (got to stop in two cities I didn’t intend to). Had breakfast with Monty, Monty and Giuseppe and a few cups of coffee later… it sorta feels like morning.

• finally on the ground in orlando #
• @bytebot: sould be able to get everything in US…. except a Wii aparrently #
• @bytebot: maybe… finding Fry’s is dangerous for me #

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• on flight to LAX had to stop at Honolulu for oxygen #
• i guess the faulty valve will make the papers as some example of Qantas and servicng #
• saw Across the Universe on the plane over. musical of Beatles music. really enjoyed it #

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The other day, I accepted the nomination for President of Linux Australia in the upcoming election. The following, is the spiel I’ve put up to help make my case for electing me:

Hi, I’m Stewart Smith and I want to be the president of Linux Australia in 2008.

I have previously served on the Linux Australia committee both as Vice President and as an Ordinary Committee Member.

This year, I’m running on the following platform:
- Keep the organisation solvent (if we loose money, we go broke and don’t have an organisation any more… which likely means no LCA, which would be a disaster).
- Ensure an awesome LCA is organised for 2009
- Improve processes, especially in finances and book keeping
- Use LA’s resources for more things directly benefiting members (including investigating member services, talking to government to ensure Australian law is friendly to the needs of our members, supporting LUGs)
- Be inclusive and in touch with members, and what’s holding back other people becoming members.

In addition to being on the LA committee previously, I’ve also been on the LUV committee, am currently helping with LCA08 things and was rather active back in the (not too distant) past at my university. I’ve co-authored two books related to free software (Practical MythTV and the MySQL 5.1 Cluster Certification Study Guide), currently work for MySQL as a Senior Software Engineer on MySQL Cluster and live in Melbourne.

I’m also the author of this membership and voting software, MemberDB - and no, it’s not rigged but yes, it is free software.

This is great news - a beer that everybody knows is vegan is right there (see, even photographic proof). Now if only it wasn’t 10:50am….

• watching Premonition #
• @brianaker American cheese is like the nuclear deterrent. except scarier #

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• want…to…kill…hold…music…AGL… argH! #
• "may be 5 minutes or more". just *tell* me if it’s going to be > 10. don’t sugar coat. #
• "may be 5 minutes or more" is actually more like 20minutes or more #
• may as well do self performance review while i’m on hold #
• let’s have a race between being on hold to the electricity company (AGL) and Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy #
• still on hold… #
• (and CD is at track 4) #
• nothing like a recorded voice going on about how "we value the environment" to ruin Nothingman. #
• and now it’s going to ruin Better Man. grrr #
• it’s been "5 minutes or more" for about FIFTY FREAKING MINUTES. #
• done! 50 minutes on hold for a 2 minute conversation… #
• just accepted nomination for LA president. #
• (that’s Linux Australia, not Los Angeles) #

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Just before Christmas, I bought myself a new stereo. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while and one of those things that takes some care in looking at because it’s a non-trivial amount of cash.

I’ve ended up with B&W 683 speakers, an Arcam amplifier and CD player (Tivoli HiFi had a special on saving about $800+ on the amp and CD when bought with speakers).

The basic summary is that this sounds awesome. Tool especially sounds awesome. The only real downside is that i’m starting to get really used to this as the standard of audio I listen to.

Even better, no complaints from neighbours (yet).