MySQL and closed-source

Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL.

While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality of . . . → Read More: MySQL and closed-source

offsite backups

Personal offsite backups stink. I’ve been using a shared hosting account to try and get my backups up and going, which is usually against the terms of service and likely to be cancelled by them at any point. In looking at other options, there are lots of great articles out there covering this topic . . . → Read More: offsite backups

Thanks to Lenovo

Thanks to Lenovo for making a Bootable CD image of the BIOS update available for my T60.

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You’ve bought a bunch of servers, they’re all setup at a facility, but how are they doing? How do you know whether your application is slow because there are lots of users or because you’ve got a disk going bad, or because your indexes no longer fit into memory? How do you know when . . . → Read More: the pulse