Today I saw an interesting opinion posted on a mailing list. I’ll quote from the fedora-list post:

What folks say here cant be taken as Fedora toting anything. It is just some user opinions.

Some of those “user opinions” came from @redhat.com addresses, I actually don’t take any notice of @anydomain.blah posters, as they are just like I, posting a personal opinion, but when you post with @redhat.com, it is next best thing to an official comment.

And I’m wondering, is this true with all users? Does it matter if the post comes from @projectname.com or not? Are your opinions more valued if you’re employed by an open source company or the project in question?

I personally think its silly. If I make a post to mysql-list, with my @mysql.com address, I don’t expect that to be an official comment or a …

Now that I have innotop hosted on sourceforge, I'd like to use the tools they provide, especially the forums and mailing lists. I've set up an innotop-discuss mailing list, which I hope you'll find a better way to get support than posting in the comments on this blog. I think I will close comments on all innotop-related articles I post, because I can't keep track of feedback in so many places.

So the blogosphere seems to be in an uproar regarding what constitutes an "open source company" and what doesn't. This seems to have been spawned by a blog post by Nat Torkington. While working on the OSCON program he stumbled over what he deems as questionable entries, since he does not feel the relevant backing companies are sufficiently "open source".

Overall I agree that there is a fine balance. Now that open source has become so "posh" there are a lot people on the bandwagon that are just there for the ride and not to enable it. Obviously any company is in it for the money on some level. Personally, I am also not a follower of the open source as a political cause. With these two points as a baseline lets explore the topic some more.

To me the point of open source is to enable better software for everybody. The idea is that as I work …

In a round-robin database (RRD) usually time-series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load etc. is stored. The data is stored in the way that system storage footprint remains constant over time. This avoids resource expensive purge jobs and reduces complexity.<br> MySQL does NOT yet provide this kind of storage engine. Although some people were thinking about and some prototypes exists.<br> Nevertheless in this white paper it is shown how you can build your own RRD tables...

Exciting news! Adrienne is resting and I hold in my arms (typing this with one hand): Liam Alexander Cole, born on Friday, March 2nd at 15:31 PST (GMT-0800). He weighs 7 lbs 11.5 oz (3501 g) and is 18.75 inches (47.6 cm) long/tall.

Sorry for miscategorizing this in the “MySQL” category — I wanted everyone to see it even if they just follow me through Planet MySQL!

Open-Xchange marketing chief Kusnetzky departs…Novell benefits from Microsoft deal…a number of open source bloggers weigh in on ‘what is open?’…and more…

Money or nothing? Trade-offs in FOSS compensation, Linux.com, Bruce Byfield (Article)

Developer: Barry Klawans, CTO, JasperSoft, InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner (Article)

Microsoft?s Linux foray props up Novell, ZDNet Between the Lines, Larry Dignan (Blog)

Marketing chief departs Open-Xchange, News.com Open Source and Standards Blog, Stephen Shankland (Blog)

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I got a lot of very nice feedback on the three tools I recently added to the MySQL Toolkit project on Sourceforge, and found and solved several issues with quoting and password prompting, index types, and so forth. Thank you all for your feedback, and welcome to Ruslan Zakirov, who plans to add some new tools!

It’s finally ready – the new stable version of the innotop MySQL and InnoDB monitor. Version 1.4.0 brings you new features and enhancements I think you’ll really enjoy: Manage many servers at once conveniently. Powerful filters, expressions, colorizing rules, and sorting. Better error handling. More modes, such as a mode to monitor and control replication. Much more. Much gratitude is due the people who’ve helped, especially Sebastien Estienne, Christian Hammers, Steven Kreuzer and other people who’ve helped design features, make packages, get innotop distributed more widely, and give me advice on such things as Makefiles.

lua + FastCGI

I was looking for a FastCGI backend for lua to have a asynchronous brother for mod-magnet in lighttpd.

Same as mod-magnet this embedding of lua is not meant to replace Frameworks like Rails or Spring, nor do I want to write average PHP application in it. I use this magnet to write small scripts (for this project it was 140 lines of lua) which is going to be executed at least 500 times a second.

That is a range where the setup-cost for a request matters. I don't want to load the session, nor do I want cleanup the whole environment for each request. I need a way to store connections to the database over multiple requests and I have to cache content from the database in the application.

I needed: - a byte-code cache …