I’m currently getting hard crashes about five times a day.

I thought it was the sound driver, as i got a crash during dist-upgrade (again) while on console and saw the backtrace. Basically looked like something bad happenned when the sound was muted.

So, running without sound muted - just turned down.

Well, today, just crashed again. Since running X, no backtrace. ARRRGHHH.

Also crashed when waking up too. ACPI stuff in the backtrace.

Not a happy camper at the moment. I have work to do, not futzing around with trying to find out what the fuck is wrong with my laptop (probably software) when I should be running a stable system.

I’ve already have to re-add all my liferea RSS feeds as liferea obviously isn’t doing the right thing (at least the version shipping with Ubuntu) regards writing the feeds file to disk.

So, I’m trying to prepare presentations for our DevConf on an …

Woke up this morning to discover a new guide to Asterisk@Home via Planet Asterisk. Reading through the guide has pretty much solidified my wish to move the house phone system to 2.6 when I get home. For those not playing along from home, I stumbled across Asterisk@Home less then a year ago, and have decided that my VOIP system is never going back to me hacking everything by hand.

The Asterisk@Home project releases a CD that installs not only a full PBX, but a working CRM system and database (ala MySQL). The setup is incredibly easy and most novices should be able to have it working in a couple of hours.

The project is still on the hobby'ist side of development but it is rapidly improving itself. I could easily see a small company …

After the introduction of German Planet MySQL last week, we now also have a Spanish Planet MySQL. Enjoy!

If you reckon there will be enough feeds for other languages, please do drop me a note.

I'm pretty excited about my next few weeks. I suppose one of the perks of my job is getting to attend and sometimes speak at a variety of conferences in the open source development world. Next week, I will be in Santa Clara for EclipseCon 2006. At this conference, I plan on filling in the large gaps of knowledge inside my brain regarding the Eclipse platform and IDE and meeting with a number of key Eclipse Foundation folks and Andi Gutmans from Zend. Stay tuned for some very important announcements tyhis week from MySQL AB and Eclipse.

I will be at the conference from the 21st through the 24th of March, so find me when I am there if you will also be at the conference. I want to meet as many Eclipse users as I can, so that I can get a better picture of how developers use the platform, what they see are the key …

I will be attending EclipseCon 2006 in Santa Clara, California, next week. It's an exciting thing for me for a number of reasons:

• MySQL Has Become a Member of the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider

  Yes, that's right. MySQL AB has officially become a member of the Eclipse Foundation this week. We will be devoting development resources to participation in 2 Eclipse projects that will be of great benefit to the MySQL Community.

• The Eclipse Data Tools Project is wickedly cool

  Basically, the DTP is developing Visual Database Tools like TOAD and DBArtisan. You will get all the familiar database tools (e.g. SQL Editor, SQL Debugger, SQL Browser, etc.)

  We will make sure that all the excellent tools from the DTP …

On Wednesday of this week (March 15), the European Parliament will vote on this joint motion introduced by the chairmen of the three largest political groups in the EP. The motion is related to the EU’s Lisbon Agenda. Item 43 of the proposed text contains some pro-patent propaganda of the worst kind:

“43. Stresses the need for reforming the current intellectual property rights legislation; notes that the cost of registering a patent in the EU varies between ? 37 500 and ? 57 000 while the same process only costs around ? 10 000 in the USA and that the length and complexity of the patent procedures are major obstacles to small SMEs; calls on the Commission to ensure proper protection of …

“There’s a lot of cool shit going on”

- Anonymous source at DevConf :)

Yes, MySQL 5.1’s new Partitioning feature definitely is a hot topic. Last week’s iPod Nano winner won thanks to interesting partitioning happenings, and this week’s one wins for the same reason.

With that, here comes a hearty congratulation to Jeremy Cole, who’s won himself an iPod Nano!

Jeremy’s been a long-time MySQL user, a one-time employee, and a great help on the mailing lists. In trying out new features in MySQL 5.1, he stumbled upon several bugs, one of which has been fixed. Again, the idea of repeatable bug reports is tantamount to how quickly a developer can fix a problem. (mysql …

our morning are dominated by meetings with the whole development team, which can result in a range of attention being paid. this was taken while monty and patrik were briefing us on a project you?ll hear more about at the mysql users conference in april.

the camera on the table belongs to david axmark, our co-founder who is infamous for taking tons of pictures that nobody ever sees. (that?s also his laptop screen in the bottom corner, he is out of frame.)