Dear Lazy Web,

In my current list of plans is to try out Zmanda's backup solution. The technology all looks good but I want to try it out for myself.

My problem?

Disk space. I am rather low on it at the moment, and to really test things out I want to backup several databases and see how it really works. My Linux boxes at this point and time are all 1U machines, so adding disks is a bit problematic. I keep reading though about some of the ~$100 NAS devices that have come out. I am thinking that I want to buy one of these and put a disk in it. 500gigs minimal should work.

Any recommendations?

From Engadget I found these:
http://www.engadget.com/tag/nas

I want something that will do NFS. I am assuming that NFS is the easiest protocol for me to deal with. I can put the box on a 1gig ethernet …

So yesterday I am sitting in front of my monitor working, and it starts to make a noise similar to a snake.

Ssssss.....

Within a minute the screen goes blank and from inside of the flat panel a small whiff of smoke rises through the air.

I think it has lost all of its magic smoke that made it work.

Kind of wimpy.

Planar Flat Screen Panels have nothing on Apple, when Apple laptops go they blow up, catch fire, and possibly take your house with them.

Now that is the way to go out in this world!

I knew I should have bought an Apple monitor instead of going with the cheap Best Buy solution (ok, the monitor was sent to me by MySQL, so its not like I had a choice at the time).

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So, I’ve been playing around with Amazon’s new S3 service. It’s essentially an on-demand storage-and-bandwidth combination; Amazon will scale their service transparantly to provide as much as you need of either. It’s pretty cheap, too, at $0.15 per GB per month for storage and $0.20 per GB per month for data transfer. I wanted to see what would be the best way to use Amazon S3 for backups with Amanda and MySQL ZRM, so I did some tests to evaluate the performance under various circumstances.

Amazon requires that you upload data in complete ‘objects’, and it wasn’t clear to me what the …

We posted the first beta of Zimbra 4.5 this past Friday.

Major new features of 4.5 include complex password enforcement, identities, personal distro lists's, server performance improvements, backup/restore in the admin console, a search builder in the admin console, user-set default fonts for HTML compose, an upgrade to use MySQL 5.0, and a Lotus Domino migration wizard. More details can be found in the beta release notes.

We posted the first beta of Zimbra 4.5 this past Friday.

Major new features of 4.5 include complex password enforcement, identities, personal distro lists's, server performance improvements, backup/restore in the admin console, a search builder in the admin console, user-set default fonts for HTML compose, an upgrade to use MySQL 5.0, and a Lotus Domino migration wizard. More details can be found in the beta release notes.

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The world needs a technology when search interface and search databases can be run by different companies. I'm thinking of a number of competing sites that are focused solely on indexing Russia or Ukraine and selling search information to Web portals and news sites all over the world. A company like Google or Microsoft would need to contract with dozens of search companies that are distributed geographically and pay revenue for every click-through. Technology-wise this needs the search technology to become distributed, for this to happen economically the technology must become a commodity (open source).

No, I refuse to use "blog". I shall say "web-log" because I don't think it deserves a new space in my dictionary. Goin' Out West is a tune by the inimitable Tom Waits.

I intend this as a diary for my life at MySQL AB, instead of using my personal site. I don't claim to represent MySQL (hereinafter dubbed Johan Company) in any official capacity.

My name is Chad, and I started with Johan in February 2006. I think it's the best job ever. I've used and written Free Software since discovering it in the middle of the '90s, and mysql was the first SQL database I used. I visited PostgreSQL-land for several years, and still have several instances running.

It's not that I don't think mysql is good enough to adopt everywhere. No software is perfect, but as of the middle of this year, I think the 5.0 version of mysql is good …

I recently attended the MySQL Camp 2006 un-conference at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. This article is a high-level overview of the event. If you didn’t go, you really missed something good. Go to the next one! The event The event brought together the MySQL community in a distinctly un-conference setting, to gather in groups to discuss or hack on something, rather than sitting in chairs with donuts and coffee listening to someone show Powerpoint slides branded with corporate logos.

Looks like MySQL Camp 2006 was really interesting and useful for its attendees and for entire MySQL community. As the result of this meeting of many MySQL-related professionals we’ve got lots of interesting publications and I want to refer one of them in this post. Very interesting list of 84 MySQL performance tips has beed created on first day of this year MySQL Camp at Google headquarters:

1. Index stuff.
2. Don’t Index Everything
3. Use benchmarking
4. Minimize traffic by fetching only what you need.
   • Paging/chunked data retrieval to limit
   • Don’t use SELECT *
   • Be wary of lots of small quick queries if a longer query can be more efficient
5. Use EXPLAIN to profile the query …