I'm deliberately living in one of the cheapest central parts of my city, living in "very frugal" mode to pay off debts and save quickly. I've also been watching the mortgage offers and prices and it turns out that for reasonably typical prices and mortgage rates combined with the sort of term I'd go for I could save enough rent to equal 10% of my ( Read more... )

I was working through a query log earlier and came across some 5% of the queries doing something like this ( Read more... )

Way to go! LiveJournal just changed its TOS to prohibit the use of Internet Explorer, text-only browsers and aggregators ( Read more... )

So, the last day is ending, with trips to Pompeii and Naples over and 83 6 megapixel images from my new camera to look over ( Read more... )

M y S Q L is having one of its developer meetings in Sorrento this week. So far ( Read more... )

Off to Sorrento, Italy to meet with a hundred or so other M y S Q L development and support people. Lots of hard work and personal contact instead of the usual online things we do. Oh, and some fun mixed in... :)

I've been doing some work on tracking down a performance problem with one IBD file per table. For comparison I created a version with all tables in one IBD file, some 26GB / 2,400 databases / 446,000 tables. That IBD file ended up having 364,329 fragments averaging 72k each but Windows said the drive didn't need to be defragmented. It would have ( Read more... )

WP has switched from using P e r l b a l to L V S for Apache load balancing. Cut out a couple of hundred ms from each request and eliminated load oscillations on a ten to twenty second period. Too soon to tell how well it'll work but it's using less CPU and doing a nice balancing job. Not properly weighted yet - we have some new dual Opterons but ( Read more... )

If you've worked with production systems and know M y S Q L well, the support group is hiring new support engineers. Customers include just about any company with a major net presence. Locations are US and Asia-Pacific, working from home anywhere within those time zones. Really capable people who have lived with major production setups are ( Read more... )

Today is my first full day at Wikimania, a gathering of about 350 people involved with Wikipedia, other projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation and open source and wiki people of all types.

An hour or so ago Brion and I did a radio interview with dw-world.de, the German radio world service, expected to appear on their web site tomorrow. ( Read more... )