Sun recently announced the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 and Sun Blade T6320 systems based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor.  You can find lots of information on the various features and functionality provided by these servers.

One other cool feature is that these systems ship with Cool Stack pre-loaded. The Cool Stack 1.1 packages are available in /var/spool/pkg. You can install the ones you want using the pkgadd(1M) command as follows :

root@wgs40-82 # cd /var/spool/pkg
root@wgs40-82 # ls
CSKampSrc_sparc.pkg        CSKphplibs_sparc.pkg
CSKamp_sparc.pkg           …

I’ve decided to publish my patch series. The goal of the -stew patches is to collect things I find interesting and that at some point could (should) make it into the main MySQL tree (even if others don’t think so).

It’s not designed for use in production.. I don’t really care if there’s failing test cases…. if it builds it’s perfect.

It includes the following which could be interesting:

• Removal of ndb_use_exact_count (performance for NDB)
• NDB node status in an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table
• Compressed Backup and LCP for NDB
• Cluster log as CSV
• Skeleton Engine
• MyHTTP Engine
• PBXT Engine
• Skeleton of MyBS support for NDB
  • (in the hope that somebody finishes it)

Currently the additional engines have to be built separately in their storage/ENGINE directories. I have some …

According to a recent Gartner Group survey, CIO?s identified business intelligence and data warehousing as their number two technology priority, up from number 10 just three years ago.

Join us for this presentation MySQL?s data warehousing and business intelligence technical strategy will be unveiled and explained.

MySQL AB today announced that leading Internet and mobile networks security provider F-Secure has signed a MySQL Enterprise Unlimited contract for extensive use of MySQL as its backend database for its security offerings. This morning's announcement was made at the annual MySQL Northern Europe Customer Conference in London.

I am reaching out to mysql experts out there! We just inherited a site which uses MySQL master/slave replication. We set up the master and slaves per MySQL documents and did some of our own tweaking in my.cnf to get things working. Things were great when we were testing the site but [...] …

The new release of MySQL Toolkit (version 1051) updates MySQL Parallel Dump in minor ways, but more importantly, it adds MySQL Parallel Restore. Read on for details.

The past week I have been expanding my C++ knowledge making callbacks using function pointers.. Last month I've put a Django webshop live. Setting up MySQL Cluster with replication and all the jingles and bells: no issue for me. Postfix installations with spam filtering, bah, peanuts.. wxPython GUI hacking my favorite hobby.

But opening the door at the bar, I needed two women explaining me in Finnish how to do it..

.. loosing track of the simplicity from time to time.

Recently Digg linked to an article titled ‘Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails‘.

The short version is that an online special interest group noticed that they were having issues with mail not being delivered when sent to Comcast addresses. They then worked their way though the Comcast abuse department to finally find that Symantec’s Brightmail was filtering on their domain name and identifying all their messages as spam. The cause for the block? 46,000 complaints filed against messages that contained the domain name of the special interest group. Symantec, once contacted was quick to remove the domain from its filters.

There’s a few lessons to be learned here about filtering and deliverability, first let’s look at …