That I forgot to put the slides from Stewart and my MythTV tutorial at LCA online. So, here they are, and sorry for the delay. You can also see the video of the tutorial here, and the homework we set here. Weirdly, there is even a remix video of the presentation.
Managing MySQL the Slack Way: How Google Deploys New MySQL Servers
I’ll be presenting about Slack (the open sourced tool kit we use for deployment software configuration) at the MySQL user’s conference in Santa Clara in late April. The talk will focus on the interesting aspects of Slack as it relates to MySQL and should be fun. A DBA mate of mine is gonna present with…
Done and done
Stewart finished off the last trailing chapter of the MythTV book a week or so ago, and I finished the last copy edit (the process where we learn US grammar) just now. That means we only need to have page layout done for a chapter or so and we’re home. Hurrah!
Scott Adam’s blog: the boner theory of management
The Boner Theory of Economics also predicts that in the long run — perhaps in a few hundred years — the military will be 100% gay men. This is the best case scenario for taxpayers because it will keep down costs, and recruiting will be easy. Recruiter: “We can’t afford to give you body armor,…
MythTV on AMD 64
I just built a sweet MythTV backup based on an Athlon X2 64 bit CPU. To get MythTV to compile, you need to change -ldts to -ldts_pic in libs/labavcodecs/Makefile. That is all.
Dentist
I went to the dentist for the first time in the US last night. It was a pretty odd experience. 19 xrays (apparently that’s standard here), a TV set on the wall where they showed me the tooth which needs a filling, and then showed me the filling after it was done, photos of my…
MythNetTV beta 4
As it says in the email: To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> Subject: MythNetTV beta 4 Hi again. MythNetTv is my video downloader / aggregator / importer thingie for MythTV. I’ve spent a little longer testing this beta, and I think it’s getting kinda ready for a real release number or something. New things in this…
Kernel report video
The video of the kernel report is cool. It only has left hand audio though. I wish people would ask questions using the microphone though.
MySQL scaling: query snipers
I’ve been wanting a query sniper for a while for MySQL (some people seem to call them “query killers”). They’re basically programs which inspect the MySQL “show processlist” command and decide to kill some processes if they violate specified rules. I have a prototype of one in python, and couldn’t find any other implementations until…
I am sometimes amazed by the childlike political discourse in the US
It amazes me that the best political argument Ann Coulter can come up with is that John Edwards is a faggot. While it is true that Ann specialises in a particularly vile form of hate politics, I guess she’s sufficiently lame that she can’t even think of good insults any more. It’s a bit like…