{"id":846,"date":"2007-06-15T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/its-here-its-here\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:46:59","slug":"its-here-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/its-here-its-here\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s here! It&#8217;s here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I hear you ask (ask dagnammit!), what does a MySQL Cluster hacker do when not hacking MySQL Cluster?<\/p>\n<p>Well,<\/p>\n<p>Today, a box arrived:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dsc_7868.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7868.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7868.thumbnail.JPG?w=584\" alt=\"dsc_7868.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I eagerly opened the box&#8230; eager for what was inside:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dsc_7869.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7869.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7869.thumbnail.JPG?w=584\" alt=\"dsc_7869.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hrrm&#8230; this does look promising! Quickly I turned it all up the right way:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dsc_7871.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7871.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7871.thumbnail.JPG?w=584\" alt=\"dsc_7871.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s here! It&#8217;s here! Only about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillhq.com\/mythtv\/book\/000006.html\">a month after Michael got his copies<\/a>! Gah international shipping (and moving addresses) can be casually annoying sometimes. But anyway, it&#8217;s here, it looks sweet and now I can go set up a menu option to automatically transcode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\">MythTV<\/a> recordings to a good format for the iPod. Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is about how many copies you should go and buy:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dsc_7874.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7874.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dsc_7874.thumbnail.JPG?w=584\" alt=\"dsc_7874.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So kids, go order your copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1590597796?tag=flamin-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1590597796&amp;adid=0YNGE6PH9A3E1DVNPRE6&amp;\">Practical MythTV<\/a> today! You too, like me, can then go &#8220;hrrm&#8230; my MythTV MySQL database isn&#8217;t Clustery enough&#8230; perhaps I should run it on NDB&#8221;. :)<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I hear you ask (ask dagnammit!), what does a MySQL Cluster hacker do when not hacking MySQL Cluster? Well, Today, a box arrived: I eagerly opened the box&#8230; eager for what was inside: Hrrm&#8230; this does look promising! Quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/its-here-its-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[118,630],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","category-mythtv","tag-book","tag-mythtv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-dE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":776,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/ndb-ndb-the-storage-engine-for-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":0},"title":"NDB! 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