Today I uploaded a batch of pictures into my gallery and I also re-arranged a number of albums into a separate Conferences and Events collection. The latest additions in there (yes, some should have been uploaded some time ago already!):
adnarim_abroad: I know it’s controversial to say, but i’
I now want to be bumming around Melbourne city during the games. My house is 2mins walk from a train station that’s less than 30mins to the middle of town. But never spend enough time there.
It’ll be good to get home.
Although i think the tired and hungover thing isn’t helping.
Today, there seemed to be several interesting news items, so let me elaborate on a couple of them.
Besides the fact that the Mandrake founder Gael Duval isn’t part of Mandriva anymore, the part that interested me was the fact that he was running Mandriva’s Community Department. Their goal was “to improve Mandriva’s image in the open source arena.” Swap Mandriva, with MySQL, and thats me. From engineering grit right up to attending conferences, thats what Community does. Its funny thats what Mandriva chose to close first, seeing their dismal quarter results - basically without an OSS community, you’re nowhere in the OSS world.
I’m a regular lurker on #conary, and reading rPath Creates Malleable, Serviceable Linux Distribution made me …
[Read more]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 …
[Read more](almost) enough said. Good to see people again. Now just a talk to prepare for tomorrow.
Okay, not totally prepare - but a bit of it.
The one I’m giving today - on Cluster Replication is pretty much done. Would like to run through beforehand - but not sure how that plan is going to go.
AUSTRALIA PRESS: Telstra To Charge More For Fixed Lines
great - I get to pay more for a service I DON’T WANT! I just want internet, not a phone line (which I aparrently have to have to get ADSL).
On an internal list, a thread switched over to breifly mentioning the film Munich which incidently, I saw a few weeks ago just after linux.conf.au and really enjoyed.
I thought it was really well done and a good film. I really recommend going to see it - it’s a good cinematic experience. Possibly don’t see it if you’re feeling really sad though - not exactly a happy film. Eric Bana and Geoffrey Rush are superb in this film (both Aussies too!).
I found it to be more about his journey than anything else and enjoyed it as it was a personal story.
Oh, and why haven’t Margaret and David reviewed it yet? I would love to know what they thought. It’s not often I see a film before I’ve seen them review it :)
On the MySQL Cluster Forum, there was a thread “any production clusters yet?” to which this was a reply
I’m using NDB in production with a high-traffic web site. We have about 500,000 members and lots of surge activity at specific times. What I’m finding is that the web server goes but the cluster doesn’t break a sweat.
sweet.
