Monthly Archives: July 2005

MySQL 5.0.10 released!

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The next beta of 5.0 is out – 5.0.10. So go ahead and download it. You’re not cool unless you download it (you can find it here http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html)

File swap it, torrent it, burn it to cds and give it to friends. Don’t you just love free software!

This release fixes a bunch of bugs that were holding back MemberDB from being usable on MySQL. This was bugs in new features, and the main one had already been reported.

There’s also been a few fixes for cluster which is always a good thing. Nothing show stopping though. We must be good :)

noise cancelling headphones a no-no

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Well, this review over at ZDnet seems to say that the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noice Cancelling headphones have leather. The suck. Well, that strikes them off my list.

In case you didn’t know, I don’t do the leather thing.

There’s also a disturbing review over at Amazon from a guy who seems to know what he’s talking about (Grado make great ‘phones – mine are supurb).

So, the sound quality may not be all that great (although people rave about the noise reduction – and that’s worth something, but maybe for $299USD I’d expect something that at least matches my $150AUD Grado ‘phones).

So, anyone got ideas for something decent for travelling with (planes) that doesn’t involve a dead cow?

Maybe in-ear earphones is what i’m looking for….

faster IMAP

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wow, courier-imap in sarge is so much faster than in woody. I see noticable speed improvements now. I also don’t see weird stuff happenning with offlineimap (terminating due to unexpected EOF). Much happier with mail.

Also, on another note, I’ve started using Evolution’s vfolders again. Talk about cool. Also, I still have memory free (which is a big improvement over times gone by).

A warmer place to work…

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So, aparrently our 7 year heater is really old and we shouldn’t expect much from it.

No, really.

A switch had broken. Again. The same one that was replaced less than two years ago.

So, I ask our Northern European friends – what’s a good brand and model for a natural gas central heater that’s not going to require fixing every year?

Heater woes….

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Aparrently they’re only meant to last 10 years.

Pity ours is only seven.

You’re also meant to have a service every two years.

We, of course, being responsible people, have had someone out every year – when it’s busted.

Oh, and the company that made it isn’t actually the company that made it, they bought it out and have nothing to do with this stuff.

Great.

So I sit with a small electric heater dreading going outside the office in fear of freezing.

It’s such fun going out in the car – it warms up quickly. I think I feel like going for a drive tonight. Anywhere really, as long as I can use my car heating.

Amazing amount of Cruft

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Went through part of the package list on the box I use for mail. Wow, a lot of cruft accumulated over the years.

I guess it has been used for a number of things, and this Debian thing is so easy to just upgrade instead of re-install, so I’ve done just that.

Why I need X and GNOME and esound on a headless box that doesn’t make noise is quite beyond me. Oh well, I guess at one stage I did have a screen hooked up and the KDE desktop backgrounds was really important.

Ministry for Crap Design

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Every year our heating breaks. Every darn year. Aparrently the way to get a reliable central heating system is to have one that’s 15 years old. Ours is a bit newer and part of the series of heaters (aparrently all of them) that suffer from the Ministry of Crap Design getting involved (meaning they break every year).

It’s bloody freezing in here. maybe 12 degrees. It’s 10 outside.

Bloody miserable cold winter.

I almost feel like getting in my car where the heater works and working from there (wireless signal should be strong enough).

still get called for tech support…

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okay, when it’s family you can’t really say no. But it does seem a bit strange when you have no idea.

Problems getting new printer to work. My advice is reinstall driver, remove device, reboot. Some random stuff. Remove from device manager, plug in again, see if it changes.

That’s the total of my windows troubleshooting knowledge (hey, apart from all that stuff i know about 3.1 from back in the day).

I’ve done dev work here and there on the platform – inside more unixy areas (software that interfaces with unix, or has been ported from). In other words, no, I don’t speak Hungarian (nor have any wish to).

That said, I’m fully supportive of efforts to make sure our software runs well on the platform. If, for whatever reason (lack of enlightnment or lack of enlightenment further up the chain), someone has to use it, then darn well, our stuff should work well and as expected.

Also, being portable is always a good thing – you never know what the next big thing is going to be like (Okay, it’s unlikely to be VMS or Hurd) but if someone wants a product you sell ported to platform X and yours is more portable than the competitor, odds are you’re the one going to get the sale.

Also, other platforms can help you fix bugs. Fixing bugs is good.

Listening to: Rage Against The Machine