This is a weird world. I’ve learnt that the Falcon tree is now public thanks to following Brian’s blog (which thankfully I follow, not just thru Planet MySQL, which is also unreachable), and reading Slashdot’s RSS feed. I was sure there was going to be email, and today, I’ve managed to suck mail from the MySQL’s mail server thru some convoluted means and find the announcement :-)

The Taiwan quake has made Streamyx’s quality of service extremely low. More importantly, it’s not allowing me to write or get mail (something I haven’t done in a while). I sincerely hope that no one’s doing silly BitTorrents or podcasts (I think downloading MP3 files fail immediately, or I just can’t even connect to PodShow and get my Daily Source Code), and that some magic routing starts working.

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Slashdot | MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Answers Your Questions:

Its an interesting interview. And as Stewart pointed out, it seems that this must be the first Slashdot comment in where I get named fully. Heh. Kudos to Julien :)

Actually if you continue reading on the comments, you’ll notice that Marten responds to a lot of the threads - that in itself is impressive, right? When was the last time you saw a CEO write on Slashdot?

Okay, back to your daily grind… lets hope that doesn’t involve Slashdot.

Slashdot | MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Answers Your Questions

I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve been mentioned by name in the 1st commet to a /. article. Yay me!? :)

At our days there is a lot of books on different languages, technologies, databases and etc, and sometimes it is a difficult to make a good choice. As for me I don’t like books with humor, curious cases with author’s pets and other flood. I don’t like and I do not want to spend my time for reading such things. Also I do not want to spend time for incompetent authors. So from all MySQL books I have ever seen I think only two are really good enough: official documentation ? MySQL 5.0 Certification Study Guide. And no matter your MySQL experience you’ll find a lot of new and usefull things.

When you are connecting to MySQL with native mysql command-line tool you can specify in parameters login and password.

But mysql.exe -u root -p password

Will not work for as expected - it will ask you password once again. Really there should not be spaces between -p option and it’s value. The correct usage is:

mysql.exe -u root -ppassword

I can not see reasons for such behavior, really, but it works in such way and we can do nothing with it.



The other thing I’ve thought about is to make mysql command-line client to interact with MySQL-server through the proxy-server. And why not? Sometimes we are behind the usual proxy and can not connect to MySQL. The other side of the proxy is that we could connect to MySQL from anonymous location

This morning is rich for troubles
Some PHP script was to act with MySQL database, but it failed with: “Warning: mysql_connect(): Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL … Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client“.
I’ve digged a bit and solution was very simple -
SET PASSWORD FOR user@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD(?newpassword?);
This updates password to use old authentication protocol.

For certain evil purposes last week, I assembled the old Saturn with a hard disk I found when cleaning a little while ago (I have that kind of tech stuff - you clean up and find 40GB disks - I’m pretty sure I have an 8.4 bumming around somewhere too).

I ended up being able to do the evil I needed to, but I could tell that the room was a bit warmer due to the extra box being alive. I was also lazy and couldn’t be bothered going downstairs for the D200, so this was shot with my old and trusty Coolpix 4500.

I used the box to be able to get remote access to a customers’ test setup to do some diagnosis on a bug (that’s notoriously hard to reproduce). I think I have a fair idea of what it is now though (timing related - not fun).

Remember kids, threads are evil.

Also, an interesting thing to …

I’m headed to Thailand in September (along with my friend and MySQL colleague Morgan) for an extended working holiday. It’ll be my third time there, and each time I visit, I fall more in love with the place. The culture is fascinating, the food is marvelous, and the people are some of the nicest I’ve met anywhere.

Since we’re planning to be there for a while, we figure that we can take a little time out from work and play to do some Open Source evangelising and networking. We’ve already contacted Open Source Thailand about the possibility of participating in any events they’ve got planned for Software Freedom Day. (Actually, Morgan got the ball rolling on that.)

However, we’re not limited to that particular event. Either one of …

Flickr: macplusg3’s photos tagged with beijing

There’s some photos I’ve taken around Beijing up there. Will be posting more over the next few days (and until I leave - on the 16th). Enjoy.

I’ve just come back from lunch. I’ve managed to eat Chinese food, in China, with chopsticks and not totally embarass myself. Ate some new food, new vegetables and a seemingly different type of seaweed than I have eaten before. It tasted good though. I even think Kit would have liked some of it (once she got over the fact that it looked different and some things were green things).
I arrived safely after a flight that was fine (except for getting up rather early to get to Sydney to then take a sane timed flight). Beijing seems to be a bit like the firefly world, except with less flying cars. You’ve got heaps of stuff in English and Chinese. It could be really interesting to live here and experience things.

There’s a national English language newspaper which is fairly up to date on world events - the fact that our dear Mr Howard is going to go to the election seems to be news here! It’s not packed with local news, which would …