I signed up for Google Talk some time ago, but just could not get the sucker to operate within Gaim successfully.
Seems I was missing an advanced setting as found at http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073 . Now I have a successful login, I just need some other friends to join Google Talk. Yes that means you.
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073
AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI.
At the MySQL BR Conference 2025 I had the opportunity to speak about Improving Your MySQL Security Posture. You can find a copy of my slides on my Presentations , and a Portugese (Brazil) translation.
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the MySQL and Heatwave Summit in San Francisco. I discussed the impact of the new MySQL 8.0 default caching_sha2_password authentication, replacing the mysql_native_password authentication that was the default for approximately 20 of the 30 years that MySQL has existed.
