Monthly Archives: September 2007

I feel dirty

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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…

Things that break while travelling….

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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.

ndb_mgmd on Win32 (an Alpha)

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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:

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!

ratting on “leading” platforms…

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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.