I love the spirit of freedom that comes with Open Source - that's one important thing that I like about MySQL. This is about an extreme example of the opposite.

I like the US band called Live (for those who don't know, that's really the name of the band - very disadvantageous if you try to google for that band) - they make great Rock music. I had the opportunity to see this band live in 1999 and I have several CDs from the band.

Recently they have issued a new CD called "Songs From Black Mountain" which comes in a normal CD edition and a DualDisc Edition, which is double sided - on one side a CD and on the other side a DVD with videos from the songs. I pre-listened the songs in iTunes, liked them and decided to buy the DualDisc from Amazon.

Fine - you probably might already guess what's the issue. The CD is copy protected and not only that - if I …

It looks like my request to update PlanetMySQL.org to use new blog is not yet handled so let me post here links to the fresh articles I've written recently:

MySQL Server Memory Usage This artice speaks about MySQL Server Memory usage, how to estimate it and control it.

To Pack or Not to Pack - MyISAM Key Compression This article speaks about benefits and draw back about MyISAM packed keys.

Update: This was from the far past, and I'd thought it best to move this information to my blog. Currently, there's no development done with M0n0 as I no longer have any access to the Contivity equipment. Regular M0n0wall images will run, just without the serial console working. What you can do in this case is to use a network cable to access the webgui to assign LAN/WAN nics, and IP addresses. N0rwall image itself is no longer available.

-- 05/18/2006
-- Mark

Overview

N0rwall is a project inspired by the now famous M0n0wall project. The latter can be found at http://m0n0.ch/wall . The company I work for had purchased several Nortel Networks Contivity 100 systems to build our VPN to connect several offices in different states. More information can be found …

I am getting closer to finally holding a university degree in my hands. I am now all through with exams. Well admittedly I still need some signatures, but I trust the two professors in question to keep their word.

So now I just need to finish writing my thesis paper. But things are looking good there as well. I have the bulk of the literature search done and I have read most of the material. I will probably try to catch a few of you readers on planet OSDB for an interview, but more on that when the time is ripe.

In preparation of the post-degree times, I met up with one of those financial advisors that hunt down comp sci students at the uni campus. Its quite easy to see through their standard propositions, analogies and pretty diagrams. But they do know a few things here and there that are interesting. They also know some aspects of what the market is like (note sure if they …

I’m happy to announce new releases of MaxDB 7.6. The Devs have put a lot of time and energy into this release and it addresses many issues. Take a look through the Change Log for some details.

Grab a copy of the new release here:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.6.00.html

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At MySQL we believe quite a lot in peer review - after all, we are open source! I read this comment about some cluster tutorial slides and thought it was quite funny

in the split brain and some other picture there is a grayed-out blotch in the middle which looks like a contraceptive device for copulating clams - what is it?

OK, back to killing bugs.

It’s no great secret that I think the stability of OpenOffice.org2 Impress in what’s shipped in Ubuntu Breezy leaves a lot to be desired. By ‘a lot’ I mean copy and pasting is unreliably and the Slide Sorter just stopped working for me without crashes (in at least one document).

However, I took the plunge and did something I usually don’t like doing - installing non-official debs.

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ breezy-updates/
deb-src http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ breezy-updates/
I am now a much happy camper.

Saving is still amazingly slow, but the lack of crashes has made my week.

doko is my hero for the week. A Tip Of The Hat for him.

Hola,

I really got to get organized. There's just too much little things that seem to remain unfinished for...well, like forever. So, I'm pushing some of the nearly finished or at least usable stuff to the web. Maybe someone else might benefit, and maybe I'll get the kind of feedback that will take it to the next level.

Organization Charts

Since a couple of days, I've been developing a javascript library to render Organization Charts on web pages. Dude, it's even documented... The good news is that it renders decent on Mozilla/Firefox and Internet Explorer. The bad news is that Opera seems to have a little bug or quirk that messes up the connecting lines. (Details: see my post at …