My MythTV store lives on an LVM volume that is spread over 2 disks, one of them is an external USB disk. So the cleaninglady seems to have touched a cable and after coming back from holiday I had a read-only filesystem that afer a remount had about 350Gb in lost+found with irrelevant filenames.

1. total 337407844
2. drwx------ 2 tv tv 4096 Dec 17 22:47 .
3. drwxrwxrwx 15 tv tv 4096 Dec 17 22:44 ..
4. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423343556 Dec 14 07:10 I303109.RCN
5. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2990538924 Dec 13 19:05 I303107.RCN
6. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023691768 Dec 13 08:10 I319494.RCN
7. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023622348 Dec 13 07:45 I327684.RCN
8. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423735892 Dec 13 07:10 I327682.RCN
9. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466749476 Dec 12 15:43 I135169.RCN
10. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023314212 Dec 12 07:45 I098309.RCN
11. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root …

So, I hear you ask (ask dagnammit!), what does a MySQL Cluster hacker do when not hacking MySQL Cluster?

Well,

Today, a box arrived:

I eagerly opened the box… eager for what was inside:

Hrrm… this does look promising! Quickly I turned it all up the right way:

It’s here! It’s here! Only about a month after Michael got his copies! Gah international shipping (and moving addresses) can be casually annoying sometimes. But anyway, it’s here, it looks sweet and now I can go set up a …

I’m involved in the authoring of two books at the moment - both using different tools, neither of which would be my choice if it was up to me. One is using DocBook, writing raw incredibly verbose XML… which honestly, isn’t that much fun. The other is in Microsoft Word (well, OpenOffice.org Writer for me). The last time I really used Microsoft Word really seriously was probably around 1998/1999 with Office 98 on the Mac. It was a pretty awesome suite of software actually. Especially after the update that fixed a few crashing bugs :)

One thing I do notice though is the collaboration tools in OOo Writer are nowhere near good enough. The notes are small yellow rectangles where you either have to hold the mouse cursor over them to read them (ick, slow) or double click them and scroll right forever to read the whole or in conjunction with the last way, use the object browser.

Also, track changes doesn’t really …

Just as a reminder, there is a MySQL Seattle Meetup on Monday at the Elysian. People show up at 7:00.

More Information is here:
http://mysql.meetup.com/31/events/4796298/

I believe I should have some O'Reilly books on hand to give out.

Topics have included: MySQL, MySQL, favorite science fiction shows, Asterisk, and the ever popular "how many channels of TV are you recording on your MyTH system"