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T60 Configuration
This is a long story, of the absolute nightmare I have had with this lemon. I wish I could send it back! I got my new Lenovo T60 from MySQL.
Read moreTop 10 Things for IT Professionals
These IT related lists are really quite accurate. I sound like a broken record sometimes when I repeat these things. The articles provides very good detailed descriptions, I’ve included the bullet points just to temp you to read more.
Read moreThat missing INNODB STATUS
On Thursday I saw something I’d not seen before. An Empty Innodb Status. Now given the amount of output normally shown it was certainly a first. And it looked like:
Read moreWatching Replication in action
For all those instant GUI people out there, there is an easy way to watch the present status of your MySQL Slaves using the watch command. $ watch -n 1 -d "
Read moreSmarter indexing for column LIKE ‘%string%’
With my very heavy travel load and skilling load I’ve not had time to scratch myself. It hasn’t stopped the brain working overtime on various issues including the classic find a pattern in a string starting with a wildcard character.
Read moreWhat is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL?
In idle conversation I was asked by MM. Question: What is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL? If you said zero to one, then you are victim of browsers, and you have never used anything but a browser.
Read moreUsing Innodb Primary Keys wisely
At a customer site recently I came across the following table definition for an Innodb table. 140 columns, 3 part primary key totally 44 bytes, 2 million rows giving over 900MB in data size.
Read moreMySQL Camp T-Shirts
For those that attended the MySQL Camp at Google HQ late last year you may have seen me with my own T-Shirt designs. A number of people inquired about getting them.
Read moreHow’s your desktop
People that know me, know that I can’t just do one thing at once. People that have seen me work also know just how I can’t just work on a single thing, but work with multiple monitors, desktops and programs everywhere.
Read moreMySQL Predictions for 2007
I’m interested to know what people consider will behold MySQL in 2007? The announcement of “You” as Time person of the year can only considered a huge boost to the opportunities in 2007.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup – Idea Virus
On more thing that came from the NY Tech Meetup last night was the Idea Virus. It was handed out on a piece of paper. Here is what it said.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup
Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people.
Read moreLinux One Liner – vim remove syntax highlighting
From within vi, which is normally vim these days. :syn off That’s bugged me at times and I never knew how to turn it off.
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