86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won’t Believe Who Wins
Well, except I did believe it – and pretty much expected it.
Proves my suspicion that next time I need to go type a few pages of text I should just go and boot up the MacPlus (as I have little doubt that these numbers are also true for OpenOffice.org).
Of course, these days my xchat logs take up about 10x the disk space of any drive you could buy for the MacPlus….
Kristian is currently talking about the new NdbRecord API for the NDBAPI and how it relates to ha_ndbcluster (the mysql storage engine, which uses ndbapi to talk to the cluster nodes) and how it can be used by ndbapi applications.
It looks like we’re getting a really neat API that avoids so much mess and makes it possible to write incredibly efficient mappings between what comes over the wire from data nodes and whatever internal structures the application wants to fill out.
Talking about this and Monty Taylor’s ORM mapping stuff could be very interesting.
that says something along the lines of “contrary to popular beleif, I don’t speak Swedish”. I find that some people will switch to Swedish when speaking to me…Â Although I do pick up a bit…. not quite a local though :)
Having just moved apartments, it’s obviously time to get on a plane again.
On Monday I fly off to Stockholm again to attend the MySQL Cluster team meeting. Somehow we’re going to squeeze everybody into the Stockholm office (I’ll post humorous cramped photos, I promise).
Of course the thing to do now is to prepare for the meeting… packing can be done on sunday night or something.
Of course, if you’re in the area, come for food/beer!
My co-conspiritor Mikal (a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley) reports that copies of the book have arrived at his house! Not only that, Amazaon is reporting it’s in stock!
Now, hoping that because I’ve just moved the books still get to me… eep. Expect me to be going around showing off the book as soon as I get it. I reckon it’s cool :)
Why does two spaces between a full stop and the beginning of the next sentence so irritate me? I mean, it really grates on me… more so than liberal use of sms style abbreviations everywhere.
SSH Filesystem – possibly the coolest thing I’ve started using this week.
Mount a file system, as a user over ssh.
I currently have a home directory in a datacenter somewhere in Sweden mounted so i can easy ls, cp etc to it. Sure, gnomevfs and nautilus let me do some of this, but not from the command line!
Over at mysql.bkbits.net you can also get the “telco” (commonly known as CGE or “Carrier Grade Edition”) source trees of MySQL Cluster.
I think it’s exciting that we now have the source trees up here. You can use the freely available bk client to pull the sources or the commercial bitkeeper.
Since I just got back from the US for the MySQL UC (which was rather awesome) I don’t quite have the energy to go into the difference between normal mysql 5.1 and the telco trees… so wait for part 2 :)
Also now up is the patch series in my “ndb-work” tree which small patch for adding INFORMATION_SCHEMA.NDB_NODE_STATUS. It’s nearly useful… I haven’t brought in the nice “id to string” functions in the management client that make pretty printing nice… so not quite end user friendly :)
But it’s a nice patch to learn how to add an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table in a pluggable engine and put some engine specific information in it.
(kudos to the falcon code… which i looked at on how to do it).
Doesn’t take long – this was completed in less than 2hrs while watching and paying attention to sessions…. so should take next to no time if you actually concentrate on it.
Of course, this totally abuses the purity of the information schema.
I’ve just put up the current “add node” patch… which is like, totally experimental and kills kittens… but could be interesting for people to have a look at as it progresses. Still lots of work before production ready – but people here at the MySQL Conf have said they’re interested in looking at the code for it.
You can grab a combined patch or the quilt series from:
http://saturn.flamingspork.com/~stewart/ndb-experimental/
Applies to 5.1… at least on a few weeks ago tree.
So, probably like lots of people – i run a few web apps locally that I use for various purposes. In my case, this also includes some cool custom developed things.
I also use Zeroconf to easily discover all this foo around a network.
I run my critical mysql install by hand – it’s not constantly up. This is so, as somebody noticed (during Eben’s keynote at the MySQL Conference where he talked a lot about privacy) that one of the apps i run is entitled “tax”.
Since I’m somewhere other than at home, my mysql instance was stopped (much harder for people to grab the data out of it if the process isn’t running to begin with).
So yeah… good points – check what random people out on the network may have access to on your laptop – and know what you should not run as default (I’m careful there).
Day 3 Photos
Okay – so it’s the morning – and the battel of the database egos session has just finished. Some photos up already!
Bdale is just about to start now… maybe some photos soon :)
Day 2 Photos
I gave my Intro to Cluster talk and then a Design and Internals of MySQL Cluster.
Also some photos from the DRBD BoF in the evening (which was really good). So was the BLOB streaming BoF earlier (but I didn’t take my camera out).
Currently in Eben’s keynote on Wednesday morning. As always, insightful and thought provoking.
World of awesome.
Day 1 Photos
This is the day of the MySQL Cluster Tutorial that I gave… which seemed to go down rather well.
(btw, those photos are served out of a gallery instance running on top of MySQL Cluster) .
A few photos from the Staff Party (pre-conf) at Marten’s place (our gracious host and CEO) on Sunday (before the conf).
How many news networks and no news?
If the hotel had Comedy Central at least I could get something from The Daily Show.
Please please save me from the endless stream of non-news – and I’m not even receiving FOX.
Nine dollars (US) of Water (how many hours would somebody on minimum wage have to work to buy this 1.5L of water?):
Apart from that, jetlagged – managed to find food, TV, internet. All good.
I’ll be putting photos up on my gallery (which is running a MySQL Cluster 5.1 backend – with disk data) over at:
http://saturn.flamingspork.com/gallery/v/conf/mysql2007/
Tomorrow morning (11.5hrs time actually) I’ll be on a plane to SFO (then down to Santa Clara) in preparation for the MySQL Conference.
So, if you’re in the area – give us a buzz. My aussie phone will work, as will traditional email.
Also on IRC… should be easy to find me (freenode).
yay – got an install of Ubuntu 7.04 on my RAID5 with LVM with RAID1 /boot. Not only that, it’s booted – twice. Special.
Even plugged in my USB RAID1 array and managed to get it to mount… and am now importing photos into the f-spot store on it. Yay.
Lets see if it survives any amount of time…
So, I wanted to get some feedback before I presented my sessions at the upcoming MySQL Conference (be there, it’ll be cool). I thought… hrrm.. distributed company… I can’t just ask a couple of people to listen to me in the conference room as we don’t really have one (apart from IRC).
So… I thought.. hrrm… didn’t i see something about screencasting on the program for linux.con f.au ? Well, the answer was yes – Screencasting HOWTO. Started watching – I then proceeded to try the list of screencasting software.
Istanbul didn’t work – I got images and audio, but only when there was a change to what was being displayed… so a static slide with me talking, didn’t work. Same with a similar python script.
I then grabbed recordMyDesktop and it worked. ./configure; make; ./src/recordMyDesktop …. and ctrl-c when done.. encodes to Ogg Theora and *WORKS*
Brilliant.
I then got to convince some coworkers to spend time listening to me speak about stuff they may already know to test it before the conf.