Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly, human-edited overview of database blogs. I’m on my own again this week, but I hope to make some new Log Buffer friends soon. Let’s begin with Colin Charles’s blog, where he offers some background of the reception of MySQL AB’s introduction of its dual-distribution model, using a quote, “MySQL [...]

O'Reilly's Oscon 2007 call for papers will be closing February 5.  This is the last chance to submit talks.  Hopefully there will be lots of good technical sessions on the LAMP stack, Web 2.0 and MySQL.  If you've never been to Oscon, this is a great chance to take part in what is arguably the best open source conference on the planet.  Hey, why be a spectator when you can be an active participant?

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention
July 23-27, 2007
Portland, Oregon

• OSCON: Overview, Call for Papers

I recently had the opportunity to review NGS Software's updated Typhon III general vulnerability scanner. I had previously reviewed it two years ago and was impressed with the product then. The updated version has some nice, new features. You can read my review here: A Review of Typhon III. It'll hit the main page of SQLServerCentral.com on Feburary 5, 2007.


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Since so many HUMBUG members are interested in the OSDC-2007-in-Brisbane idea, there will be an initial gathering to discuss ideas and such at the HUMBUG meeting this Saturday, 27 January.

HUMBUG is run at Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50) at the University of Queensland. The usual HUMBUG meetings start at 3pm, but the OSDC discussion will commence at 5pm. I did some venue scouting earlier this week, so I'll be able to give some info on that.

See you there, if you can make it - otherwise if you are interested in helping and haven't dropped me a line yet, please do so (at my-first-name @ my-last-name dot com dot au). I'm keeping a list and will make sure everybody is included for follow-up meetings and everything else. Thanks!

The second edition of the annual Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will take place on August 25-26 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.

FrOSCon is a two day conference that revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source. Moreover, developers will be offered space to organize their own meetings or subconferences.

If you are interested in sponsoring this great event, do not hesitate to …

It?s simply too inaccurate to be useful. I?ve switched to using google with firefox bookmark keywords instead. Here is how to set it up. In firefox click on Organize Bookmarks under the Bookmarks menu. Click the New Bookmark button and fill in the following values.

• Name: MySQL Manual
• Location: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:dev.mysql.com%20%s
• Keyword: mysql
• Description: Keyword bookmark for using Google to search the MySQL manual.

Click ok and close the bookmark menu. Now instead of typing mysql.com/foo or using the search box on mysql.com you can simply type mysql foo into the address bar. Firefox will use your keyword to load the location in the bookmark replacing %s with foo resulting in results from the mysql manual. This can be done with any search engine. Simply do a test search and replace the search term with %s for the bookmark url.

It's been a while since I posted anything to this blog. Now there is a cause to rev up - my talk about the client library internals was accepted.
The puzzle how to deliver anything more than superficial in scope of a 45 minute presentation remains to be solved, and perhaps not without help of the blogosphere.

Can someone please tell me why I have to suffer a UAC prompt elevation to set environment variables for myself?  And please don't try and justify it by telling me the UI for setting user environment variables is in the same place as system environment variables thus requiring an elevation.

Yet more evidence that Vista is simply half-baked.

So recently my wife and I bought a new ‘used’ car ….

The car came with the OEM CD changer. While the cd changer did the job it was not sufficient for me…..6 disc cd changers are so 90’s aren’t they???

So I started to research other options to replace the cd changer.

I wanted something simple that would be scaleable and most importantly, whatever I chose needed to Integrate into my current soundsystem which includes an on board GPS system. It also had to be relatively low cost.

So with these requirements, I set off to search for a replacement for my 6 disc CD changer…

I stumbled onto a Digital Music System. Which consists of either a 40 gb hard drive or can be upgraded to 80 gb or 120 gb.
I chose the 40 gb version. This hard drive can be connected to my PC at home and I can load 1/3
of my music collection onto this drive before filling it up. This system met all my other …

Curious about Digium's AsteriskNOW distribution? Mark has the following video up on YouTube showing how to install it.




(...and yes someday I'll get around to doing something like this for MySQL... its just hard to get a camera, a free afternoon, and a car that someone will let me blowup)