This is where I will clasify posts that point out how dumb something is. I will feel more free to use explicit language, exaggerated comparisons and will encourage hatred of whatever cheeses me off whenever I choose to write about it.
I would have used “rant” as a category, but this way it’ll screw with those word-scraping spying programs used to “protect” us.
It blows slightly less goat than the previous offering.
It totally blows against something like the RH/Fedora tool. Like, they actually work properly and won’t show you something as dumb as LVM VGs and LVs witohut an underlying lvm partition set up anywhere. Oh, and the supremely broken behaviour of giving weird partition error messages repeatedly when I’m trying to set up /boot.
Oh how you irritate me. Isn’t this RAID and LVM thing meant to be easy. So why isn’t it?
Because it’s obviously a good idea to re-invent the bloody wheel a few times, that’s why. I think i would have preferred doing it all on the command line. Fuck that sucks donkey.
Is anybody else noticing an increase in ICQ spam?
I have an increasing number of random people, without much details messaging me and adding me to their buddy list (or attempting to) saying something like “hi”.
I obviously don’t know them.
For the record, if you’re a real person – say who you are in that first message!
Hit back to get the last screenshot. Then click the continue button. Boom.
Has anybody heard of QA? (That’s Quality Assurance, not Question and Answer)
Because browser detection is soooo cool and the thing to do. I use a mozilla based browser you idiots!
They’ve gone ahead and been idiots. On screen, mouse activated big keyboard. Signing into online banking when other people are even remotely around (think conference, think at home, think anywhere really) is no longer secure.
Go get a clue Westpac.
(the following few entries were written at various times, but are now posted after the events).
So back from New Zealand for only a few days before heading off again. This time for a bit of a holiday though!
The plan is as follows:
– Jessie leaves on Wednesday (the day after I get back from NZ), taking my car over so we have a way to drive around and see the countryside.
– I join on the Saturday, taking a week off work to see some of Tasmania as I haven’t been since I was a foetus and would like to actually see and remember the trip this time
– Michael joins us the following Thursday. Ordinarily Jessie would have probably convinced him to do the boyfriendly thing of being there the whole time, but at about a month into a new job, he’s figuring it’s probably not the best idea to skip out for a week.
Just to make things interesting, at the same time I’ve got a bunch of work to do as well as a trip to organise.
I’ve now discovered that in some parts of tassie, mobile phone reception is sketchy (or just non-existent) especially for my carrier (Optarse – oh, I mean Optus – they’re cable Internet bandwidth limitations seem to have scarred me there). So I’ve been playing answering machine message tag with my travel agent Andrew.
In March, I’ll be in London (probably just for a day doing some touristy things on the way through), then Stockholm spending some time with Jonas getting further with online add/drop node and nodegroup for ndb (as he’s not coming to our developer conference due to impending new baby) before finally heading off to Sorrento, a bit out of Naples for the MySQL DevConf. I got hold of Andrew last night (when we stopped in Burnie) and aparrently he’s found a way so that I don’t have to go London -> Stockholm -> London -> Naples and can just go Stockholm -> Rome. That’ll be nice.
Anyway, back to what I’ve been doing in tassie…
Working down to the wire, packing at the last minute to head to the airport. Had a bit of the “hope i packed adequately”-itis as heading out, but oh well – worst case scenario I hear they have shops down south.
Drink in the lounge followed by the short flight from Melbourne (a *lot* shorter than the boat – Jessie said about 11 hours and then a 3hr drive to Hobart – she says she’s not sure if she slept or not, but was pretty tired at the end). The approach into Hobart is pretty impressive (as was the approach into Dunedin a few weeks ago) where you get hills, mountains and trees and not much sign of people. It’s also just great fun to fly into an airport you haven’t flown into before.
Hobart airport is pretty small, but sure enough, you can land a 737 there. Bag came right off the carousel (like the fourth one off) and was out the door in no time. Brilliant.
Oh, and the planes do a u-turn on the runway – there isn’t a taxiway for the whole length. All the stairs also roll up to the plane and it’s sorta like “the terminal is that way” when you get off :)
I got to have the interesting experience of getting picked up by your own car in a different place after just having gotten off a plane. Weird. But nice, as then you don’t have to futz about with a cab or a bus or subway.
Met her brother Mark again – I think we met breifly once in Melbourne… I think…. like for a minute as he was heading out after visiting Jessie. I think… could be wrong. Also met her mother – which was certainly a first. She’s who we’d be staying with for some of the trip. I wonder how Michael will go with the meeting of the gf’s mother? Probably one of the longest relationships without mother meeting among our group.
From what I recall the main events of the rest of the evening was driving home (where home is in New Norfolk – about 30mins out of Hobart – so about 45 from the airport) and dropping Mark off on the way. Had some tea and went to bed (after making some rudimentry plans for the morning)
On the MySQL Cluster Forum, there was a thread “any production clusters yet?” to which this was a reply
I’m using NDB in production with a high-traffic web site. We have about 500,000 members and lots of surge activity at specific times. What I’m finding is that the web server goes but the cluster doesn’t break a sweat.
sweet.
Something that makes me always just go to dev.mysql.com or php.net for documentation is the user comments. sometimes you just find some real jems that are really worth reading.
It would be great if this somehow could get integrated into the (offline) help system in GNOME could somehow have this stuff integrated. maybe some AJAX foo to fetch comments from the Interweb if you’re connected. So then you get the best of three worlds: good graphical documentation interface, good documentation and user comments to the docs!
So, naturally, while at linux.conf.au I still need to get to my home mythtv box to set (and check) what’s going to be recorded.
I can also have a look to see what my flatmate has set to record.
It looks like I’m missing the tennis one day to have “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Guide to All Creation” recorded.
Hrrm… for some reason I’m not unhappy with that….
Trying to fiddle with my linux.conf.au presentation in OpenOffice.org2 (the version that comes with Ubuntu Breezy).
It’s as buggy as all hell.
At the moment, after pasting in some slides from another presentation (if it doesn’t randomly crash some short time afterwards) I can’t save the file. Really useful.
grrr….
MySQL: Can MySQL be run from a CDROM?
The question is asked. The answer is – yes!
Temporary tables can be store anywhere – e.g. the system’s temporary directory (/tmp on unix, probably c:\temp or something on windows… i’m sure there’s one of those %FOO% things for it).
IIRC you may need to start it with a flag or something – but the embedded library – libmysqld (where the mysql server runs within your process – you link to libmysqld instead of libmysql).
Of course, if you’re linking mysql with non-gpl code, you’ll need a license from us.
knife left out overnight – with stuff on it. I should point out that I’m not the one who left it out.
Washing it this morning, trying to get gunk off it (what looks like garlic) managed to slice into my right thumb. Also a little on the finger next to it. Blood pouring out. Crap.
No more washing up for me this morning.
At least the knife is sharp though.
dry some tofu (tea towl, paper towl, intense concentration).
marinade of:
came up yummy – at least with tomato sauce. And really, it’s the only sauce that counts.
Adapted from: http://www.silcom.com/~noster/martofu.htmlÂ
It’s there for you to take a read. I’ve just read through it and it does sound like a good improvement. I would certainly feel happy licensing my code under this license.
It’s also good to know that MySQL has been and will be further involved in the process (as are many other orgs and companies).
I picked this up in a market in Stockholm.
It’s sitting on top of a diagram of a bunch of classes in ndb_mgmd and in front of The Art of Computer Progromming (Knuth, Volumes 1-3). On top of that is Transactional Information Systems.
Every so often you come across people desiring intense XML and RDBMS interaction. Recently, here: Technical Notes and Articles of Interest » MySQL 5.1 is gaining some momentum.
In MySQL land, this usually means “An XML Storage Engine would be great”. hrmm… a storage engine is a way to store a table. A table is a relational thingy. Surely what’s wanted is a good way to query an XML document and search for a specific XML document.
So, is what’s really wanted good XML indexers and the ability to extract parts (or the whole) of a document? Maybe there’s some extension to fulltext (along with some funky functions) that could bring an immense amount of power with dealing with XML?
What is there now? What do people do now? What do they want to do?
All interesting stuff
ticketmaster.com.au – The White Stripes
Damn, damn, damn, damn damn. Only January 28th – and I’m in NZ.
Note to future organisers: make sure dates don’t overlap BDO or any really cool band tour dates.
Of course, the real disaster would be if Tool were touring at the same time as a work thing. How will people take it if i leave a company event for however long is needed to see Tool live. as many times as possible. I am dearly hoping that travel co-ordinates itself to see them in different cities, countries. Heck, even another planet if we can do that by the time the new album is ready :)
Some people don’t seem to get the Tool thing. It’s just good music. But that’s the thing – it is good music. Also, great music to hack with. I reckon each album gets played at least once per week – still.