Is anybody else noticing an increase in ICQ spam?
I have an increasing number of random people, without much details messaging me and adding me to their buddy list (or attempting to) saying something like “hi”.
I obviously don’t know them.
For the record, if you’re a real person – say who you are in that first message!
Hit back to get the last screenshot. Then click the continue button. Boom.
Has anybody heard of QA? (That’s Quality Assurance, not Question and Answer)
Because browser detection is soooo cool and the thing to do. I use a mozilla based browser you idiots!
They’ve gone ahead and been idiots. On screen, mouse activated big keyboard. Signing into online banking when other people are even remotely around (think conference, think at home, think anywhere really) is no longer secure.
Go get a clue Westpac.
(the following few entries were written at various times, but are now posted after the events).
So back from New Zealand for only a few days before heading off again. This time for a bit of a holiday though!
The plan is as follows:
– Jessie leaves on Wednesday (the day after I get back from NZ), taking my car over so we have a way to drive around and see the countryside.
– I join on the Saturday, taking a week off work to see some of Tasmania as I haven’t been since I was a foetus and would like to actually see and remember the trip this time
– Michael joins us the following Thursday. Ordinarily Jessie would have probably convinced him to do the boyfriendly thing of being there the whole time, but at about a month into a new job, he’s figuring it’s probably not the best idea to skip out for a week.
Just to make things interesting, at the same time I’ve got a bunch of work to do as well as a trip to organise.
I’ve now discovered that in some parts of tassie, mobile phone reception is sketchy (or just non-existent) especially for my carrier (Optarse – oh, I mean Optus – they’re cable Internet bandwidth limitations seem to have scarred me there). So I’ve been playing answering machine message tag with my travel agent Andrew.
In March, I’ll be in London (probably just for a day doing some touristy things on the way through), then Stockholm spending some time with Jonas getting further with online add/drop node and nodegroup for ndb (as he’s not coming to our developer conference due to impending new baby) before finally heading off to Sorrento, a bit out of Naples for the MySQL DevConf. I got hold of Andrew last night (when we stopped in Burnie) and aparrently he’s found a way so that I don’t have to go London -> Stockholm -> London -> Naples and can just go Stockholm -> Rome. That’ll be nice.
Anyway, back to what I’ve been doing in tassie…
Working down to the wire, packing at the last minute to head to the airport. Had a bit of the “hope i packed adequately”-itis as heading out, but oh well – worst case scenario I hear they have shops down south.
Drink in the lounge followed by the short flight from Melbourne (a *lot* shorter than the boat – Jessie said about 11 hours and then a 3hr drive to Hobart – she says she’s not sure if she slept or not, but was pretty tired at the end). The approach into Hobart is pretty impressive (as was the approach into Dunedin a few weeks ago) where you get hills, mountains and trees and not much sign of people. It’s also just great fun to fly into an airport you haven’t flown into before.
Hobart airport is pretty small, but sure enough, you can land a 737 there. Bag came right off the carousel (like the fourth one off) and was out the door in no time. Brilliant.
Oh, and the planes do a u-turn on the runway – there isn’t a taxiway for the whole length. All the stairs also roll up to the plane and it’s sorta like “the terminal is that way” when you get off :)
I got to have the interesting experience of getting picked up by your own car in a different place after just having gotten off a plane. Weird. But nice, as then you don’t have to futz about with a cab or a bus or subway.
Met her brother Mark again – I think we met breifly once in Melbourne… I think…. like for a minute as he was heading out after visiting Jessie. I think… could be wrong. Also met her mother – which was certainly a first. She’s who we’d be staying with for some of the trip. I wonder how Michael will go with the meeting of the gf’s mother? Probably one of the longest relationships without mother meeting among our group.
From what I recall the main events of the rest of the evening was driving home (where home is in New Norfolk – about 30mins out of Hobart – so about 45 from the airport) and dropping Mark off on the way. Had some tea and went to bed (after making some rudimentry plans for the morning)
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.
Something that makes me always just go to dev.mysql.com or php.net for documentation is the user comments. sometimes you just find some real jems that are really worth reading.
It would be great if this somehow could get integrated into the (offline) help system in GNOME could somehow have this stuff integrated. maybe some AJAX foo to fetch comments from the Interweb if you’re connected. So then you get the best of three worlds: good graphical documentation interface, good documentation and user comments to the docs!