January 31, 2009

MySQL Bugs: #40854: SHOW TABLES removes tables from Cluster

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=40854 that's a scary one if you ever come across it... yikes
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/google-flags-whole-internet-as-malware/ heh. FAIL.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

January 30, 2009

Quick response to bay crash saves pilot

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Plane-spotted-in-water-off-Pillar-Point38661417.html wow, I've flown that airplane before too!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Free Task Manager

http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager looks handy if you're on a windows box
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Iraqis construct shoe sculpture to honor Bush shoe-throwing incident.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/30/iraq-bush-shoe-sculpture/ that. is. awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Why Perl 5.10 is Modern and Perl 5.8.9 is Legacy

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/why-perl-510-is-modern-and-perl-589-is-legacy.html interesting, especially if you're not tracking Perl development closely (I used to but don't anyomre)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Emacs 101

http://www.futureone.com/~sponge/tutorial/emacs/misc.html some useful tidbits in here
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

January 29, 2009

kittens riding vacuum [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxW3GWZ5hI excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Might Putty Dub! [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4a4O7kXQo&feature=channel_page hahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/01/26/daily65.html?ana=e_du_pub Hmmm.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

January 27, 2009

WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive Preview

http://hothardware.com/News/WD-2TB-Caviar-Green-Monster-Drive-Preview/ WWWAAAAAAANNT!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Head O State Obama Sex Toy

http://headostate.com/ the official obama pleasure toy!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

January 26, 2009

Seven steps to remarkable customer service

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Dive into Python 3

http://diveintopython3.org/ I like the footer
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

e-mail cake on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34613929@N08/3224867375/ that is awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Which Sex Positions Are Possible In Space? NASA knows...

http://wiseperception.com/node/110 ha!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

January 25, 2009

Bitches don’t know about my popsicle

http://www.horkulated.com/bitches-dont-know-about-my-popsiclejpg/ hahahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Low Power Amdahl Blades for Data Intensive Computing

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/01/25/LowPowerAmdahlBladesForDataIntensiveComputing.aspx "a low-power, low-cost commodity board coupled with a single, high-performance flash SSDs would form an excellent building block for a data intensive cluster"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

FUCK THE CLOUD

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717/comment-page-2#comment-7655 peach on, brother!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

January 24, 2009

No new global mutexes! (and how to make the thread/connection pool work)

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-new-global-mutexes-and-how-to-make.html the folks at google continue to do interesting mysql work
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

MySQL Bugs: #42288: thread_handling = pool-of-threads is slow

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42288 performance fail
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ gonna try this out...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

January 23, 2009

Failing hard drive sounds

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php I hope I don't hear these!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

HOWTO: Extract an Airbus 320 from the Hudson River

http://home.earthlink.net/~silver-e2/US%20Air%20Salvage/ pictures!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

January 22, 2009

Bartz Gets Millions; Yahoo Bails on Pay Increases for Rank and File

http://www.cnbc.com/id/28796750 yow... bad news for yahoos. but I guess it's better than layoffs
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Writing Linux Programs in Raw Binary

http://www.g-brain.net/tutorials/writing-linux-programs-in-raw-binary.txt hard core
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Communicating with code

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-code.html agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Beware: ext3 and sync-binlog do not play well together

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/01/21/beware-ext3-and-sync-binlog-do-not-play-well-together/ good to know...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

January 21, 2009

Why I Drive a 13-Year-Old Car

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/01/21/why-i-drive-a-13-year-old-car/ some good advice there, really. our newest car is 6 years old. our oldest is 10. they run good.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Inauguration Day as seen from overhead

http://www.popsci.com/content/inauguration-day nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores | Richard Jones, Esq.

http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ definitely some useful info there
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

bbcp

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/ fie copy faster in somc cases across the network
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Newspapers Covering Obama's Inauguration

http://c6.going.com/obama/inauguration_headlines.html holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

January 20, 2009

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Roasted-Garlic-Mashed-Potatoes-2/Detail.aspx I made this last night... It was gooood!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

January 19, 2009

How to Renew Your U.S. Passport

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/renew/renew_833.html mine expires soon.. must do this
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Running Remotely

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/01/19/Running-Remotely wow, that eee is getting cheap!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 16, 2009

New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13brod.html?_r=1&em the debate may never end!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Three Days With Windows 7

http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/01/15/three-days-with-windows-7/ interesting to read...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

InnoDB, MyISAM and disk space

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/innodb-myisam-and-disk-space_16.html InnoDB overhead is not That Bad but you need to understand what's using up the space
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

How To Shutdown a Computer

http://cafe.elharo.com/ui/how-to-shutdown-a-computer/ very good points...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

January 15, 2009

Sphinx goes billions

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/news/34.html cat's out of the bag... craigslist runs sphinx instead of MySQL FULLTEXT
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Some little known facts about Innodb Insert Buffer

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/01/13/some-little-known-facts-about-innodb-insert-buffer/ good info from Peter
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

pidstat

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/man_pidstat.html a really hand tool for looking at per-process I/O
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Craigslist rotting on the vine?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434190 interesting discussion about what we do right and what people would like to see us fix
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Ask reddit: What LaTeX resume template do you use?

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7py77/ask_reddit_what_latex_resume_template_do_you_use/ it's old skool. I like it.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Matt, what's your favorite desktop twitter client?

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2009/01/matt-whats-your-favorite-desktop-twitter-client.html "IT'S A TIMEWASTING FIRE HOSE OF INFORMATION."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

InnoDB is faster, tcmalloc is nice

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/innodb-is-faster-tcmalloc-is-nice.html interesting results
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

January 14, 2009

Girls Piss Me Off

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pdx/104629167.html you think this guy got burned, or what?
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

The $300 Million Button

http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button also "Register Considered Harmful"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

MySQL Bugs: #16979: AUTO_INC lock in InnoDB works a table level lock

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=16979 ugh. this keeps biting us too. time to upgrade soon?
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

January 13, 2009

Interview with an Adware Author

http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Perl and UNIX Network Programming

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31310/Perl-and-UNIX-Network-Programming there were a few handy tidbits in this presentation
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Oracle on Sharding

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/oracle-on-sharding.html "Are there customers who use hundreds or thousands of shards? Does anyone write about their experiences?"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

January 12, 2009

Windows 7 on Ubuntu 8.10

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/01/11/Windows-7-on-Ubuntu-8-10 thanks, Sam
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Bug #300693 in linux-meta (Ubuntu): “Thinkpad T61p hardlock flashing caps lock”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/300693 this bug sucks... I get it a lot too
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

January 10, 2009

Linux 2.6.28's five best features

http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_2_6_28s_five_best_features wow, a few things in there make me VERY happy!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

January 09, 2009

CES 2009: New SanDisk SSD G3 is as fast as a 40,000rpm HDD

http://www.i4u.com/article22595.html WANT!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

January 08, 2009

Drambuie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drambuie yum
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

January 07, 2009

Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/ that is awesome and scary at the same time
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Gearman

http://www.gearmanproject.org/doku.php this is the new gearman site/wiki
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

[PATCH] add ReusePort option to IO::Socket::INET for better multicast support (resend)

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg28624.html wow, that was 8 year ago. amusingly, I just found a use for it again today.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Barry

http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/ Barry is an Open Source application that will provide synchronization, backup, restore and program management for BlackBerry devices.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

#sqlputdowns - Twitter Search

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlputdowns heh
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

MSI's Super-Thin MacBook Air Killer Will Cost Just $700

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/msis-super-thin.html hmm...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Porn industry seeks federal bailout

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/07/porn-industry-seeks-federal-bailout/ *snicker*
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

January 05, 2009

Auto sales down 35 percent; the economy must be in pretty good shape

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/01/05/auto-sales-down-35-percent-the-economy-must-be-in-pretty-good-shape/ heh. I love his take on it.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

January 04, 2009

I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool

http://www.unethicalblogger.com/posts/2009/01/im_using_git_because_it_makes_me_feel_cool how amusing!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Paul Buchheit: Overnight success takes a long time

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/overnight-success-takes-long-time.html yes... yes, it does
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

January 02, 2009

One hundred miles per gallon

http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/081230100mpg.html?WT.mc_id=090102epilot&WT.mc_sect=gan I want my electronic ignition, please...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM