May 30, 2009

How SQLite Is Tested

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html that's a pretty remarkable testing suite
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

May 29, 2009

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-wave-what-might-email-l.html my head spins mildly at this
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Efficient way to copy large amounts of data?

http://mtocker.livejournal.com/49932.html interesting comments there
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

May 27, 2009

MSI notebook first with Intel's ultra-low voltage processor

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10250251-1.html WANT!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Introducing Multiple Clustering Indexes in Tokudb

http://blogs.tokutek.com/tokuview/introducing_multiple_clustering_indexes/ interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

MySQL Proxy => proxydb + replication

http://fmpwizard.blogspot.com/2009/05/mysql-proxy-proxydb-replication.html fun and danger all at once! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Cache Line Sizes and Concurrency

http://www.oddments.org/?p=64 "If you have any arrays or data structures that are accessed and updated independently from different threads, make sure they are on a different cache line. This may mean wasting a little space, but as you can see, the concurrency performance is well worth it."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Winner for Best MP3 Tagging Tool: Mp3Tag

http://lifehacker.com/5270391/hive-five-winner-for-best-mp3-tagging-tool-mp3tag tagging this for when I decide to clean up my collection of music and MP3s
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Obama Adviser Eyes Government-Built Broadband Systems

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cd_20090202_7042.php interesting idea... wonder how it'd really play out here though
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-bets-big-on-html-5.html big things are happening in the web app world
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

May 26, 2009

Intel’s coming processors to attack high end of server chip market » VentureBeat

http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/26/intels-coming-processors-to-attack-high-end-of-server-chip-market/ holy crap... 8 cores per CPU and 2 threads per core and 4 or 8 CPUs per box. wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Intel Previews Intel Xeon® 'Nehalem-EX' Processor

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20090526comp.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20090526m wow, and they're gonna have 24MB cache
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

National Ignition Facility & Photon Science - The Power of Light

https://lasers.llnl.gov/ "In 2010, NIF will focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel — fusing, or igniting, the hydrogen atoms' nuclei in the world's first controlled thermonuclear reaction."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

http://www.storyofstuff.com/ "From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

DivX fills in the gaps and adds MKV support to Windows 7 - Engadget HD

http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/05/01/divx-fills-in-the-gaps-and-adds-mkv-support-to-windows-7/ this works really well on our Windows 7 HTPC
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

May 25, 2009

Improving Putty settings on Windows

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows some very useful hints here
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

May 24, 2009

Ghostbusters III filming soon with original cast

http://sffmedia.com/films/science-fiction-films/365-ghostbusters-iii-filming-soon-with-original-cast-.html this could be really good or really bad
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

May 23, 2009

Annoying To Me.

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2009/05/22/annoying-to-me/ 'If by “ops” you mean “people in data centers racking servers, installing OSes, running cables, replacing broken hardware, etc.” then sure, cloud computing aims to relieve you of those burdens. If you really think ‘ops’ is just that, then you really should put down your Nick Carr book and pay attention to the real world for a change.'
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Turning a Blind Eye

http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/turning-a-blind-eye/ "Noteable as this news cycle winds down has been the relative disinterest on the part of reporters and politicians in adult service ads featured in journalistic media, no matter how numerous or graphic they may be."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

A good reason to use inodb_file_per_table -- per-table IO statistics

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/05/good-reason-to-use-inodbfilepertable.html excellent... Percona XtraDB integration soon, I hope
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 22, 2009

Judge blocks S.C. from prosecuting Craigslist

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/05/judge-blocks-sc-from-prosecuting-craigslist-for.html yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

bashreduce

http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/tree/master that just kicks ass
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

An easy way to run many tasks in parallel

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/01/an-easy-way-to-run-many-tasks-in-parallel/ nice use of xargs
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro)

http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/ GPL'd cross-platform dir sync tool
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

SQLite Manager :: Firefox Add-ons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817 an interesting FF add-on!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Sam Ruby: Wake on LAN

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/05/22/Wake-on-LAN I keep meaning to do this for a few of my boxes too
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Server under 30W

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/05/22/ServerUnder30W.aspx interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Mass killing of MySQL Connections

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/05/21/mass-killing-of-mysql-connections/ handy trick
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

May 21, 2009

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party [video]

http://vimeo.com/4505537 awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

AWS Import/Export

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ sneakernet to from Amazon S3
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

May 20, 2009

Cool Tools: The Litter Robot

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003730.php oh, I want one of those
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Gearman, Now With Persistent Queues

http://www.oddments.org/?p=61#comment-931 woo!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Craigslist Sues SC AG For Declaratory Relief

http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/cl-sues-sc-ag-for-declaratory-relief/ "craigslist has filed suit against SC AG Henry McMaster in federal court in South Carolina, seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order with respect to criminal charges he has repeatedly threatened against craigslist and its executives."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

May 18, 2009

Bam! Craigslist CEO Writes Best “You Owe Me An Apology” Letter Ever

http://www.pehub.com/40130/bam-craigslist-ceo-writes-best-you-owe-me-an-apology-letter-ever/ yep
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

linuxmagazine on Twitter

http://twitter.com/linuxmagazine nice
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

May 15, 2009

WhatsApp - customize your contactability

http://www.whatsapp.com/ "a simple way to let your contacts know your status before they call you. Think of WhatsApp as a status indicator for your iPhone. This application allows users to communicate their status with each other. Dont make (or receive) any more poorly timed phone calls."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

disk usage (du) human readable AND sorted by size

http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ this is insanely useful and something I wish that du had built-in
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

At last we have a MySQL Foundation, its called The Open Database Alliance

http://pbxt.blogspot.com/2009/05/at-last-we-have-mysql-foundation-its.html "I believe this would have been a great opportunity for Sun to take the leadership in the community, as the foundation idea dates back to before things really started splitting up. But Sun's loss is now that of Oracle, who perhaps doesn't care anyway."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

MySQL Lists: internals: Re: MySQL Reengineering Project

http://lists.mysql.com/internals/36646 this will be interesting to watch... I can't help but think that Sun/MySQL is feeling pressure from Percona, Google, MariaDB, and Drizzle
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Monty says: Open database Alliance founded

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-database-alliance-founded.html "The Alliance will be a center and provide infrastructure for companies and individuals to develop, collaborate and do business around open source databases with MariaDB/MySQL as our initial focus."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Device Remover - The Powerfull Device Manager

http://www.pro-it-education.de/software/deviceremover/#_download looks like a handy tool
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Patch for global transaction IDs, binlog event checksums and crash-safe replication state in MySQL

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/05/patch-for-global-transaction-ids-binlog.html KICK ASS!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

May 14, 2009

Perfectly Safe To Remove Files and Folders - Bold_Fortune Forums

http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1103&st=0 make windows xp take less space--good for virtual machines
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

jrockway's cperl-mode at master - GitHub

http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode/tree/master ooh, a newer cperl-mode
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

May 13, 2009

FDA says Cheerios is a Drug

http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s7188c.htm awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

May 12, 2009

Hannes Arch Takes Third After Bird Strike

http://smoke-on.com/blog/uncategorized/hannes-arch-takes-third-after-bird-strike wow, that's some amazingly lucky photgraphy
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

May 10, 2009

Hindsight on a scalable replacement for InnoDB

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/09/hindsight-on-a-scalable-replacement-for-innodb/ food for thought
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 09, 2009

Classifieds and Killers

http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/classifieds-and-killers/ "craigslist users have posted more than 1.15 BILLION classified ads to date, easily 1000x the combined total ever posted to the print publications involved in all of these 'print ad murders'"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Please re-license the MySQL documentation

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/08/please-re-license-the-mysql-documentation/ yes please
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

May 08, 2009

Sphinx - text search The Pirate Bay way

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/08/dziuba_sphinx/ a not so bad article about Sphinx and Andrew
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

May 07, 2009

Mozilla Hiring MySQL Geek / DBA

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Job.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&v=1&j=ovqbVfwL this could be a fun job
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

fit-PC2 Wiki

http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page how awesome is that?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

May 06, 2009

Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJmwYKy7eM&feature=related this cracks me up
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

May 05, 2009

Drop ACID and Think About Data

http://highscalability.com/drop-acid-and-think-about-data good talk notes
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Turn Storage Containers into Self Watering Tomato Planters

http://lifehacker.com/5190496/turn-storage-containers-into-self-watering-tomato-planters I've been meaning to try this
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/big-data-analytics-r-linked-data-ssd.html sounds like an interesting video I should watch
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores « random($foo)

http://randomfoo.net/2009/04/20/some-notes-on-distributed-key-stores good stuff form Leonard... also see the comments and discussion
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Sean Tucker Lands On Highway "Out Of Gas"

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/SeanTucker_Lands_On_Highway_Out_Of_Gas_200319-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

May 04, 2009

Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools - Data Recovery

http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools I hope I never need to refer back to this list
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Obesity and Overweight: Trends: U.S. Obesity Trends1985–2007

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/ interesting visualization
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

May 03, 2009

Art student's car vanishing act

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/8030766.stm that is awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

May 02, 2009

How To Launch a VirtualBox Virtual Machine from a shortcut

http://blarts.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/how-to-launch-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine-from-a-shortcut/ and now I know
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 interesting design principles... similar to something I was prototyping for storing older data in our archive
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Detailed review of Tokutek storage engine

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/04/28/detailed-review-of-tokutek-storage-engine/ interesting results (and discussion)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Getting annoyed with MyISAM multiple key caches

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/05/01/getting-annoyed-with-myisam-multiple-key-caches/ I agree 100%
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

May 01, 2009

RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO for MySQL 5.4

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/05/01/raid-vs-ssd-vs-fusionio/ good to see more benchmarks coming out for memory-based storage
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Paula Poundstone (paulapoundstone) on Twitter

http://twitter.com/paulapoundstone well, if all the comedians I liked were on Twitter, that'd be crazy. crazy, I tell you
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Looking on 5.4 - IO bound benchmarks | MySQL Performance Blog

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/04/30/looking-on-54-io-bound-benchmarks/ interesting early results from Vadim at Percona
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Selectivity threshold for a non-covering index

http://ritmark.com/?p=25 I've wondered what these numbers would look like mysql
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM