December 31, 2008

The Time-Warner / Viacom Showdown

http://blog.megacity.org/archives/2008/12/the-timewarner/ "Here's an idea, lady, give your kids a fucking board-game. Give your kids some projects to do, outdoors. Help them build a friggin' tree-fort. Whatever kids did for the four-thousand-fucking-years before cable TV showed up at your ignorant living room."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

December 29, 2008

Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control

http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3793561 I got distracted and read this article. Fuck!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

MySQL Bugs: #41563: FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK results are different in 6.0 Vs 5.1

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=41563 uhm, no. that's a bug. really.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

FeedMyTorrents.com

http://feedmytorrents.com/ excellent! smart aggregation and de-duping of TV torrents
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Use Getopt::Long even if you don't think you need to

http://perlbuzz.com/mechanix/2008/05/use-getoptlong-even-if-you-don.html really, really good advice!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Four Reasons to Love CouchDB, Part 1

http://ajbrown.org/blog/2008/12/28/four-reasons-to-love-couchdb-part-1.html I want to play with CouchDB in 2009
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 28, 2008

ASH 31 Mi

http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/produkte/ash31/ash31_main_e.htm WANT!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Elephant Slide Fail

http://failblog.org/2008/12/23/elephant-slide-fail/ can you say "poop chute"?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

December 27, 2008

Fast and 'free' beats steady and paid on MySQL

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/27/mysql_slowing_down/ "fast and good-enough always beats slow and correct"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

December 23, 2008

The other performance problem

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/12/other-performance-problem.html Mark has a good list of stuff to fix in InnoDB
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 AM

December 22, 2008

Perl 5 source repository now hosted in git

http://perlbuzz.com/2008/12/perl-5-source-repository-now-hosted-on-github.html yay for perl!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

EXCLUSIVE: Mother dies after childbirth (her 15th!)

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_wavy_norfolk_mother_dies_after_childbirth_20081222 uh... I'm speechless. On several levels. WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

On the time domain, with regard to spam

http://www.hughes-family.org/wordpress/2008/12/22/on-the-time-domain-with-regard-to-spam/ "So, after a multi-year hiatus (partly due to a non-compete agreement which prevented me from doing some work in the field), I think it’s time to get a little back into anti-spam hacking." Craig is back!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver that's a damned simple and good idea!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Install VirtualBox 2.1 in Ubuntu 8.10

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/12/18/install-virtualbox-21-in-ubuntu-810/ looks like 2.1 is even better
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Airbus A319 - Very Fast Crazy Take Off [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDz6sEdrcfM&feature=related now that looks like fun!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font)

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released this is a pretty good coding font
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

I have no idea how difficult my class is

http://pshaw.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/i-have-no-idea-how-difficult-my-class-is/ an interesting discussion about teaching program and how/if people can learn to program
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Eventually Consistent

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/12/eventually_consistent.html somehow I missed this the first time around... Werner does a good job of discussing Amazon's "eventually consistent" model
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

YouTube [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFg24vaMmTc Chris made an excellent video again this year
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 21, 2008

XtraDB in CPU-bound benchmark

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/18/xtradb-in-cpu-bound-benchmark/ interesting to see the cpu usage chart
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Wake Up Your Mac Faster

http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/12/wake-up-your-mac-faster.html handy if you actually own a mac
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149 more detail than the previous ATAoE link I checked
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

XtraDB benchmarks - 1.5X gain in IO-bound load | MySQL Performance Blog

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/18/xtradb-benchmarks-15x-gain/ iiinteresting...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Simple Desktop File Sharing with Giver

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/12/19/simple-desktop-file-sharing-with-giver/ uhm, that's cool... I wonder if we'll see it cross-platform someday. that would rock.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Recovering CREATE TABLE statement from .frm file

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/17/recovering-create-table-statement-from-frm-file/ a useful tip if you ever end up in that unfortunate situation
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

December 20, 2008

How to join (combine) multiple MP3 files

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/04/24/how-to-join-combine-multiple-mp3-files-in-os-x/ works in Windows and Linux too, I hope
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Hardware review: Drobo by Raoul Pop

http://www.raoulpop.com/2007/hardware-review-drobo/ lots of goo drobo info
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 19, 2008

MySQL, YourSQL, OurSQL

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1665 in which forks are good
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Habitat for Humanity ReStores

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003423.php "Habitat for Humanity's ReStores is a building supply thrift outlet whose proceeds go to funding more Habitat projects."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 18, 2008

My advice to MySQL

http://jpipes.com/index.php?/archives/276-My-advice-to-MySQL.html or let's just get behind Drizzle... :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Using ATA Over Ethernet On Debian Etch

http://www.howtoforge.com/ata_over_ethernet_debian_etch cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Setting up a Drobo in Linux

http://www.norio.be/blog/2008/11/setting-drobo-linux nice... I wish for a drobo someday
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

One week with the Drobo on Linux

http://krook.net/archives/217 lots of good drobo discussion!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

how open is drizzle?

http://trainedmonkey.com/2008/12/17/how_open_is_drizzle_ Jim makes some good points
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

The Journey Home (NASA Image of the Day Gallery)

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1244.html Fresh from the STS-126 mission space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, flew over California's Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 10, 2008.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Ubuntu on Amazon Web Services (Beta) | Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/ec2 nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Load Average On Linux

http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/12/17/load-average-on-linux/ load average really needs to die
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Fed Cuts Rates on Money, Chicks

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002658.html oh, man... that's funny.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

December 17, 2008

AncientFS: Ancient Unix File Systems on Mac OS X

http://osxbook.com/software/ancientfs/ that's just cool
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

December 16, 2008

The Purple People Collective: ex-Yahoos and other laid off tech workers for hire

http://www.purplepeoplecollective.com/ not surprising that someone did this
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

December 15, 2008

MySQL getting too big for its corporate britches?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10122963-16.html Matt Assay riffs on my MySQL Landscape post a bit
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

December 12, 2008

Scaling memcached at Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919&id=9445547199&index=0 Paul explains the work they've done
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/10/startups-internet Heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

December 11, 2008

Rent or Own: Amazon EC2 vs. Colocation Comparison for Hadoop Clusters

http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/?p=38 interesting numbers
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

How to write efficient archiving and purging jobs in SQL

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/02/how-to-write-efficient-archiving-and-purging-jobs-in-sql/ an older but excellent post
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

InnoDB insert performance

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/12/innodb-insert-performance.html Mark looks at the best inset performance you can expect
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

maatkit

http://code.google.com/p/maatkit/ a mysql toolkit with lots of goodies in it
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 10, 2008

Aaron's Photoblog: Camera Selection Dilemma

http://photoblog.schaubnet.org/2008/12/camera-selection-dilemma.html help Aaron ick a new DSLR
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/10/7-reasons-mysql-quality-will-never-be-the-same/ time will tell, I'm sure
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Crosswind Practice on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/2443213 nice job, Chris
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

December 08, 2008

Darth Vader Feels Blue [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZBevXohCI&feature=related oh, man... that cracks my shit up
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Cluster SSH for Emacs

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ClusterSSH send one command to many ssh sessions at once. nice.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/12/native-client-technology-for-running.html I have highly mixed feelings about this
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for Amazon EC2

http://alestic.com/ just what it says
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Open Flash Chart

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/ if I ever need to do some charting stuff, this might be fun to try
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Percona Presentations from OpenSQLCamp Published

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/01/presentations-from-opensqlcamp-published/ good stuff from the Percona team
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Install Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a T61p

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Ubuntu_Intrepid_Ibex_on_a_T61p#Version_177_logout.2FX_restart_fix what a pain in the ass! better wait to upgrade since 8.04 mostly works for me!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

How I learnt to love Perl

http://www.dmclaughlin.com/2008/12/07/how-i-learnt-to-love-perl/ I hadn't really looked at Moose yet. Not that it's likely to be useful for a lot of what I do, but it's still interesting.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Why it's called "craigslist"

http://www.cnewmark.com/2008/12/why-its-called-craigslist.html in case you were wondering
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Analysis: more than 16 cores may well be pointless

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081207-analysis-more-than-16-cores-may-well-be-pointless.html Need more memory bandwidth!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

December 06, 2008

Yahoo! UI Library: Rich Text Editor

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/ looks nice
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Wasting InnoDB memory

http://dammit.lt/2008/05/29/wasting-innodb-memory/ yikes! I hadn't realized
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Innodb memory overhead

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/11/innodb-memory-overhead.html the overhead in InnoDB is far higher than I thought it might be
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

On File Systems

http://www.kev009.com/wp/2008/11/on-file-systems/ a good overview of the state of Linux/Unix filesystems
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

More Linux File Systems

http://www.kev009.com/wp/2008/12/more-linux-file-systems/ a continuation of a good overview of the state of Linux/Unix filesystems
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Microsoft Helping Perl Development

http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38036 "Commencing this month, Microsoft will be providing every CPAN author with free access to a centrally-hosted virtual machine environment containing every major version of Windows."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

License Changes

http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/12/01/license-changes/ I may try this too... fucking scrapers
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

December 05, 2008

Getting a Working C/C++ Development Environment for Developing Drizzle

http://www.jpipes.com/index.php?url=archives/248-Getting-a-Working-CC++-Development-Environment-for-Developing-Drizzle.html&serendipity[csuccess]=moderate#feedback Jay has some excellent docs here
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Making Art and Culture Thrive in the Hybrid Economy: Forum

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R812011000 Lawrence Lessig did an excellent job... grab the MP3 and give it a listen
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

I Gave Her my Heart, She Gave Me a Pen

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002650.html excellent costume!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Tom Basil (formerly MySQL’s Director of Support) Joins Percona

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/04/tom-basil-formerly-mysqls-director-of-support-joins-percona/ good move, Tom
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Venice under water

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/venice_under_water.html those pics tell quite a story
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades how to make ubuntu 8.04 offer an 8.10 upgrade
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Desirable InnoDB Features

http://feedblog.org/2008/12/02/desirable-innodb-features/ some good ideas in there, Kevin
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

December 04, 2008

New firmware unlocks GPS on Verizon-branded Pearls and Curves

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/new-firmware-unlocks-gps-on-verizon-branded-pearls-and-curves-c/ YAAAAY!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Unclutterer » Archive » Uncluttering your refrigerator’s crisper

http://unclutterer.com/2007/12/26/uncluttering-your-refrigerators-crisper/ how to store various foods: temperature and stuff. useful.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services Group

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/dec08/12-04CorpDec4PR.mspx score! nice move, Qi
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Waffle Grid: Remote Buffer Cache -VS- SSD Grudge Match

http://www.bigdbahead.com/?p=81 interesting benchmark numbers and bottleneck discussion
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

3 Ways to Setup RSync Server on Windows

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-ways-to-setup-rsync-server-on-windows/ yay! now I can backup my laptop
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

InnoDB Plugin 1.0.2 for MySQL 5.1.30 (GA) Released

http://www.innodb.com/wp/2008/12/01/innodb-plugin-102-released/ yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Tire Chains For Your Shoes

http://toolmonger.com/2008/12/02/tire-chains-for-your-shoes/ seriously? wow, the internet makes everything
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Download TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.3.0

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1281/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.3.0.html looks like a fun little toy
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

MySQL 5.0, 5.1 and Innodb Plugin CPU Efficiency

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/03/mysql-50-51-and-innodb-plugin-cpu-efficiency/ hope to see a retest with the just released 1.0.2 plug-in
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

A metric for MySQL load average at Xaprb

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/11/26/a-metric-for-mysql-load-average/ I really hate "load average" as a metric, but this could be useful if MySQL exposed some more info that we could use
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

(USA) current TFRs available as airspace files - rec.aviation.soaring

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.soaring/browse_thread/thread/be9005c773533e3e?hl=en this could be handy indeed...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

December 03, 2008

"Prop 8 - The Musical"

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones heh... funny
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Index of /projects/rsnap

http://web.chad.org/projects/rsnap/ it's an ad-hoc version of rsnapshot, basically... cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Farewell, LAUNCHcast

http://boulter.com/blog/2008/12/03/farewell-launchcast/ "Nice job, music industry. Instead of collecting money from these services, you’ve shut down any chance of revenue. Nobody buys CDs anymore and Apple is in control of all your music distribution. Way to go."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Dog Having a Blast in the Snow - Video

http://maniacworld.com/dog-having-a-blast-in-the-snow.html that's one very happy dog!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 02, 2008

SkyMall Catalogue Jamboree

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/skymall-catalogue-jamboree.php?page=2 holy crap, this stuff is funny
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Yet another new Drizzle plugin type: replicator

http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/789596.html Drizzle will have plug-ins for replication... yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/american_airlines_now_charging ...just kidding :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

What Your Computer Does While You Wait

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does-while-you-wait this is good but kinda makes me sad too
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

December 01, 2008

Workers riot at Nerf Factory

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdt81rR7RGLIGuRTVkLQGOJxVZ3gD94MPOJG0 ...but nobody was hurt
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM