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MySQL K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of MySQL AB today announced
free pre-registration for the MySQL Users Conference Japan 2007,
the first MySQL users conference to be held in Asia.
Date: Tuesday, September 11 & Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Location: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Admission fee: Free, if pre-registered. Participation on that day is 5,000 yen.
Pre-registration: www.mysql-ucj2007.jp/english
Main sponsor: MySQL AB
I just unpacked and started setting up the Kysoh Tux toy that I got
at OScon. The lucky folks with a press badge were given a free
one. I had to pay for mine.
The good:
Physically, it feels to be well and solidly made. It didn't feel
like they were being cheap with the fabrication. It weighs just
over half a kilogram.
Physical setup is straightforward. Unstrap the parts from the
box. Click in the US power module into the internationalized
power cord. Plug in the penguin unit, to charge it up. It can
operate both plugged in, and on internal batteries, which it
charges itself. Plug the fish unit into your computer with the
included USB cord. It uses a mini-usb plug.
The firmware running in the "Penguin" main unit, and the firmware
running in the "Fish" USB/wireless transmitter unit, and the
interface library and control software on the host are …
Long time no blog again.. Well, lots happened which flipped my
world again upside down and.. Ah well.. We'll see how it goes..
blah blah blah..
Last week I was in Rochester, Minnesota, which is a central
northern state in US. I flew in via Chicago and saw while landing
at O'Hara Airport the Sears Tower after enjoying the beautiful
great lakes. Later I flew into Minneapolis where I met up with my
MySQL colleagues. Oh great fun it was! I was at the wrong hotel
and my old Nokia phone didn't work. Of course, Ray's phone got
stolen.. Anyway, we finally got together and I got in trouble
with the waitress because I said the beer or glass was bad (which
was also the case).
Sunday we drove direction Rochester, but first I had to buy some
new pants! Dress code at IBM and I would get in trouble with my
jeans! This was a perfect excuse to go to the Mall of America,
the biggest mall in US and apparently also in the world. I mean, …
Note: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is now published.
Note: I have now published “Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)”
Note: This page focuses on Ubuntu installs. Oracle has published a web page for successfully installing Linux on unsupported platforms that you may find helpful.
I come from a MySQL background, and I have been given the challenge of learning Oracle. I can’t just play around with our customers’ databases, but I remembered that Paul Vallée said that there is …
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Last week Paul released version 0.5Alpha of the new BLOB Streaming
Engine and so I thought I would take some time to see what is
new and do a bit more benchmarking. This time around, Paul
concentrated on a new method of handling BLOBs. Instead of
storing them directly in a table, you can now store a reference
to them in the MyBS repository. Each database can have its own
repository (which exists in the database directory on the
filesystem) and you can also control how large the repository
file can grow before another file is created.
This further abstracts BLOBs from MySQL itself, but does allow
one to easily be able to insert BLOBs using a simply HTTP PUT
method, although in order to store the BLOB permanently, you need
to actually insert the reference into the database. If you don't,
the MyBS engine will delete the BLOB …
Today, Fotolog reached the ten million member milestone. As a way
of saying thank you, our management has decided to give free
reverse friend/favorites feature to all Fotolog members. Now,
you can see who has added your Fotolog to their friend/favorite
list.
The short: 2007 Sysadmin of the Year Nominations being accepted — http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com. Canada and US candidates only (due to prizes and regulations. )
Last year, I found out too late about the Sysadmin of the Year Award (see my lament at http://sheeri.net/archives/157). Mark Cohen, this year’s “poster boy” for 2007 Sysadmin of the Year, contacted me to let me know that the 2007 Sysadmin of the Year contest is on. It started on Sysadmin Day, always the last Friday in July.
I asked if DBA’s count as sysadmins, and here’s what Mark had to say:
In our book, DBAs qualify.
I’ve worked with some totally amazing DBAs that not only do their job, but ALSO work as a sysadmin when asked..
Great bunch of people generally.
The press release to Forbes …
[Read more]What is Freedom?
The concept of free software is very old - even older than the idea about software itself, because this is not a technology -this is a view of life, human, simple, and natural. Because this is the idea and feeling of freedom. This unimpaired freedom with which we are born and which we carry with us in the course of our lives. This is the same freedom, which leads our feelings of humanity and justice.
The Internet is a child of this freedom. The free software is its
manifestation. Regardless of its statute as an innermost human
right,
freedom is constantly under the attack of politicians,
organizations, companies or separate persons while they try to
adapt it to their
morals and views. However, limited freedom is no freedom at all!
The best way to protect this freedom is to share it with others.
To make them remember that they carry this freedom within and
that they can and have the …
China is becoming more and more important as a market for software; both proprietary and open source software. Still knowledge as to what is really taking place is quite limited with both language and cultural barriers making it difficult to understand for many westerners at least, to what is the Chinese opportunity for software developers and vendors globally.
Some good coverage in the last year from the blogspace can be found e.g. from especially Stephen Walli , but also from Amy Jiang of Canonical/Ubuntu , Zack Urlocher of MySQL and Matt Asay of Alfresco . However, this is …
[Read more]You want to run the mysqlnd tests, because you never trust anybody else test results? In particular you are getting sceptical if anybody claims to have reached a certain level of stability? Read on, here’s a step-by-step for faking your own test results.
New tests …
PHP extensions can test their userland (PHP) functionality using so called “phpt Tests”. phpt Tests consist of several parts with their main part being regular PHP code to test PHP. On the website of the PHP Quality Assurance Team you can find a documentation of the phpt Tests syntax on the page Writing Tests, if your are interested in the details. Most extensions contain a tests/ subdirectory in the …
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