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It’s here! It’s here!

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So, I hear you ask (ask dagnammit!), what does a MySQL Cluster hacker do when not hacking MySQL Cluster?

Well,

Today, a box arrived:

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I eagerly opened the box… eager for what was inside:

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Hrrm… this does look promising! Quickly I turned it all up the right way:

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It’s here! It’s here! Only about a month after Michael got his copies! Gah international shipping (and moving addresses) can be casually annoying sometimes. But anyway, it’s here, it looks sweet and now I can go set up a menu option to automatically transcode MythTV recordings to a good format for the iPod. Brilliant!

Of course, this is about how many copies you should go and buy:

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So kids, go order your copy of Practical MythTV today! You too, like me, can then go “hrrm… my MythTV MySQL database isn’t Clustery enough… perhaps I should run it on NDB”. :)

You should also go and get a copy of the MySQL Cluster Certification Study Guide as I have writing in it too! Yes, this past year has kept me busy!

NDB! NDB! The storage engine for me!

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Today I set up a mysqld connected to my not-quite-HA cluster at home here to replicate from my MythTV database into cluster. The idea behind this is to eat an increasing amount of my own dogfood around the house.

To do this, I also set up the MySQL Instance Manager to manage the now multiple instances of MySQL Servers on a box here. I found it a pain to do, it should be a lot simpler, but isn’t. At least now things are going okay…. but the feature wish list I have is rather long (perhaps I should hack some stuff up in this “spare time” i’ve been hearing so much about).

I’m also about 10 minutes (or however long the build takes) off moving one of the data nodes off the machine so it will be a real 2 node system (but I still have to move the management server to a third machine to have any real HA… and I have a PowerPC machine marked for that, I just have to await some patches to make it work :)

Currently though, my Gallery is being served off this. There are so many more photos I should add, I just haven’t come up with a decent way to interface f-spot and Gallery together – especially when I go back and retouch, delete or tag photos.