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Re: Decision 07: (more…) vs. More

Colin Charles — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:35:46 -0000

Please, please, publish full feeds.

If you want to keep the web page more "active", just publish an excerpt on the web page, and truncate it at say 1000 characters. But let the RSS feed itself, be a full feed. It only takes a tiny amount of hacking to do this, and a good example of "truncation" in action are:

* http://www.planet-php.net/ (look for the "Truncated by planet PHP". This could be implemented better as the RSS feed is also truncated :()
* http://www.planetmysql.org/ (look for the "read more" on the Web, but then realise that the RSS feed is the complete full feed)

So I'd say Planet MySQL got it right at the moment. If you visit the website, you only get fresh content, all truncated and so on. If you grab the RSS feed, you get it all, no "more" link...

I for one use Liferea or Google Reader to read the AppsLab blog, and if I'm offline, go on missing articles that I could have enjoyed.

Re: Some N73 Tips

Colin Charles — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:33:06 -0000

OMG! Life saviour. I hate the annoying blue light. Thanks for the tip. Though I'm beginning to hate the phone in general - frequent crashes, hangs, and so on. It does the job of a camera well, but fails in its basic task of being a device to make and receive phone calls.

All the best for the surgery, tell us how it goes. Its something that even I've considered... but not done.

Re: iSync for E65

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:04:53 -0000

So, is the E65 any better than the N73? :-)

Re: Things I’ve Quit

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:07:34 -0000

24 days to graduation, I'm sure you can sacrifice rss, and twitter. In fact, on the Mac I notice i've got a ridiculous amount of popups (go Growl!) - 1001 for flickr, twitter (something I've just started using, so now follow you too), IM, transmission completing, skype, etc. If you use newsfire, you'll see rss feed updates!

I notice that on linux, I've just got Mugshot (not available on mac) notifying me. As well as IM...

Maybe the key is to disabling growl for a period of time? ;-)

Anyways, all the best!

Re: Preview: pfingo

Colin Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:48:27 -0000

So, pfingo is basically a SIP client, and their service is a SIP registra. Its a case of bring your own SIM, use whatever WiFi connection is available, and be pfingo enabled?

I guess the pfingoACTIVE is what makes this application a steal. Otherwise, the Nokia phone's themselves come with a SIP client, the only catch is connecting to a SIP registra (say, gizmophone)

Wonder if it'll be available worldwide (I am very rarely in Singapore, once a year if I'm lucky - love your airport where I transit regularly, but here's hoping the service works in Australia and Malaysia).

Do continue telling us how it goes, its might interesting to see whats happening in the VoIP/WiFi space, as more phones are WiFi enabled. Cell phone companies are so going to "enjoy" the competition.

Re: What Am I Doing Here

Colin Charles — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:00:45 -0000

Congratulations. Looks like it was a great talk, and when I'm near a computer, will take a gander at the other media you uploaded. But seriously, congratulations and I can't wait to see even better things happen for you.

Re: Then and Now: Strolling Around Bengal

Colin Charles — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:41:55 -0000

Amazing, as always. Your writing is awe-inspiring, and the photographs are great :) I have a feeling you're going to do really well in Journalism-school.

Re: Tappity Tap Tap

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:33:06 -0000

Ouch, looks painful! Tattoos are life changing, from what I hear. Does it represent a significant moment in life?

Re: We Know What We Want

Colin Charles — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:59:40 -0000

Congratulations on going to the rally. I'm so happy that more and more Malaysians are going, waking up, feeling alive

Re: What to do when you’re bored: talk about Google OS!

Colin Charles — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:52:28 -0000

Well, notice how everything they make works with Firefox? Nobody cares about the OS - what's underneath is insignificant. It can be Ubuntu (Free), Windows or OS X for all they care.

As long as you can do *everything* in the browser, they'd be pleased. That in itself is what makes the "operating system experience" useful.

When you download a Linux distribution, you get a useful office suite, graphics editing packages, and so on. When you buy Windows, you get just that - the base OS. Its those users whom Google will benefit from.

After all, they've got the basic/most important things that people use: office software. And mail. And calendering. Need I go on?

(oh, and you'd get all these ads delivered nicely inside the browser. No pain of creating an OS for consumers...)

Re: Microsoft about to enter into patent war?

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:03:28 -0000

Well, Microsoft has always been thinking they've got patents that Linux violates. In fact, do you recollect SCO vs. IBM? That looks like a war that ends with one company becoming bankrupt ;-)

Software patents itself, are silly.

Novell recently got into bed with Microsoft to "avoid" such patent problems. Of course, they did it to survive, and everyone generally views them as a sell out...

Keep in mind that if you buy Red Hat, you're protected against lawsuits. FWIW, that also applies to Novell these days.

So is Microsoft going to start suing? I seriously, doubt it. They've also recently started "loving" open source - look at their Port25 effort.

Re: Is Sun Microsystems going to compete with Amazon’s Web services with MySQL?

Colin Charles — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:59:22 -0000

Hi! Can you enable, in Viddler, for us to download the interview? I'd like to watch it offline...

Thanks

Re: I’ve joined FriendFeed

Colin Charles — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:13:32 -0000

Try Mugshot. I wrote a little comparison of the two... http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/03/01...

Re: TechFuga makes it clear TechMeme is not innovating

Colin Charles — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:01:47 -0000

Isn't this like the portals from the mid-90's? Its just a collection of feeds... I already do that innovation with my own start page. (alternatively, poor man style, save everything in a Firefox folder, and let it open up all in new tabs :P)

Re: Upgraded to WordPress 1.0.2

Colin Charles — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:41:19 -0000

So, where is the ping code for PPS? Please do feel free to e-mail me at byte@aeon.com.my, as I'm mildly interested in taking a look at it. Thanks!

Re: Upgraded to WordPress 1.0.2

Colin Charles — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:10 -0000

Yeah, I reckon posting information about modifications and stuff would be good. PPS has no instructions, and WP doesn't do pinging automatically. Must look at the forums, but if you've got stuff, do share, thanks

Re: All Malaysian Bloggers Project

Colin Charles — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:43:36 -0000

Well, it only gains traffic from your blog provided you blog about it. So, don't blog about it :-)

@exif: I highly doubt that. I'd register, but heck, there's no way they're going to control/monitor me - I'm hardly even in the country and my blog isn't hosted there

Re: My First Credit Card: PB Visa Gold

Colin Charles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:59:12 -0000

So, RM10,000 in a mutual fund is all you need? Impressive. No asking you for Borang J (or whatever the hell the income tax form is)

Does the credit card also have online banking access (i.e. can you see the statement online, and obviously debit to make payments for the card, online)?

Re: All Malaysian Bloggers Project: Bloggers Gathering

Colin Charles — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:56:44 -0000

Who the hell wakes up by 10am? Oh well, I'll try to make it, meet more "malaysian bloggers"... See you all there ;)

Re: My 28th Birthday

Colin Charles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:11:55 -0000

In case I forgot to twitter you, hope you had a good birthday. Happy belated birthday :)

Re: Maybank Reject My Current Account Application!

Colin Charles — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:16:09 -0000

actually, if you have a gold card from public bank (credit card), PB Bank doesn't need an introducer for a current account

look at:
http://www.pbebank.com/en/en_content/personal/c...
http://www.pbebank.com/en/en_content/personal/c...

Current Account
Open a Current Account at any Public Bank branch without an introducer.

Good luck :)

Re: Not Utopia

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:35:49 -0000

Well, don't get me wrong, I don't like OS X. I'm just looking at it hard to make Linux more usable. I've used OS X before for a week before getting it off and getting some form of Linux on my iBook (yellowdog, debian).

So yeah, I'm only comparing stuff because I'd want Linux to become better. Really.

Re: Leaving on a jet plane

Colin Charles — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:58:50 -0000

Dude, rock. You guessed right :)

Re: Useful advocacy

Colin Charles — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:29:44 -0000

Home users use Windows because its bundled with their computers (OEM). They can't be bothered to get any updates, etc... (hence the virii outbreaks, and all). If Linux was there by default, they'd use it too. Otherwise, Windows costs so little pirated, folks tend to use it too.

Promotion? Because Microsoft keeps on promoting against open source software. It's scary, but true. Visit microsoft and see them downplaying OSS.

You tried Linux (Fedora Core 1 amd64 test1 release), and didn't know how to configure GRUB for a dual-boot system. It might not be perfect (hence the test1), and we expect you to have some GRUB and general bootloader knowledge. An excuse of not being able to boot into Windows again is a bad one; I'd say it was successful - Linux won :P

Erm, that said, we all work on fixing bugs, really. We need more testers. We need more test platforms. And most of all, we need to get there before Longhorn.

Re: Useful advocacy

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:21:52 -0000

It wasn't RM1,000 - it was nearly RM3,000, with support. Komnas 2020. They're a bad company, run as a subsidiary of DRB-HICOM, and they don't even understand what the open source model is. They take OpenOffice.org for instance and relabel it as Komnas office, packaging it and never even sharing the spec files with us. Suckers.

It's dead because their cost was wayyyyyyy more than what you could get a system like that for at Imbi or Low Yat. Which is sad, because it should have been just as cheap. But folks have to make money, no?

Clone PCs if cheaper than a commercial Linux offering, I reckon most would prefer clone PCs and a pirated version of some proprietary OS. Linux isn't hard to install; I've had more success installing it than Windows :P

In fact, Red Hat/Fedora have a great tool called Anaconda - it beats Windows XP's setup, since its entirely graphical rather than XP's text-based startup.

Re: Useful advocacy

Colin Charles — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:50:53 -0000

Thats because the video card wasn't recognised :)

E-mail entering well, seemed like a nice way of doing things so I could respond back to folks with offers, etc...

We'll we've beaten this advocacy thread down, there'll be more. *grin*

Re: Stomach flu?

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:25:07 -0000

wade (wmealing) was working on some form of workaround for an Airport Extreme driver a while back. That other mini-PCI card never showed itself, sadly

Re: Shared source?

Colin Charles — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:25:23 -0000

No, they didn't want it, but it got leaked. Oh well, it's a lot of code...that I'd never want to look at. And probably not want to hire someone that has looked at it before too.

Re: Open source policy

Colin Charles — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:43:18 -0000

Thanks to the one on why Linux isn't commercially viable. It's generally FUD (fear, uncertainty and disinformation). It is commercially viable. Just ask Red Hat, whom rocked up USD$600 million last year. Or Sun. IBM and HP even. Linus is the man behind the kernel, but he's got heaps of "lieutenants" - alan cox, marcelo, and now andrew morton.

So really, its not a one man show. And it's commercially viable.

Re: Penang and bad ears

Colin Charles — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:08:26 -0000

Jon, thanks for that. I'll keep this in mind if it ever happens again (and I hope it doesn't).

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Colin Charles — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:16:55 -0000

Imran, yeah, silly blog-ware. Must fix it when time permits. Surely a full-time student, but there's some more work to be done. If I was a CIO, I'd not be as passionate about what I love :) (at least thru experience with many that I deal with).

Ken, it's been fixed. This package B thing seems to be "true". Competition is good (I guess).

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Colin Charles — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:22:36 -0000

There will be Chinese/Tamil/Jawi support. There will be some KDE apps (if we need them), its in the planning stages, but yes, it should be rather GNOME-like.

Re: Planes run Windows!

Colin Charles — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:21:27 -0000

Well, I guess the Airshow runs Windows. I saw an .exe crash!

Re: Fedora and non-free

Colin Charles — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:24:39 -0000

Yes, but currently the 3rd party repo's contain what the Extras contain too...

Re: OS X gets more accessible

Colin Charles — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:39:55 -0000

Whom? The accessibility folk?

Re: Linux the new-fangled word

Colin Charles — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:13:05 -0000

So, to recap - PC Gemilang (1.7GHz); Dell (2.4GHz) - difference of 700MHz. Disk size is the same, ditto with the RAM. 48x CD burner beats the 52x CDROM drive in PC Gemilang. Warranty is 1 year from both Dell and PC Gemilang (PIKOM), so thats a moot point. Delivery is free to the local retailer for PC Gemilang.

Dell is a "big brand", and the cost of ~RM1,500 is a bit steep - in excess of RM500 or thereabouts for a PC Gemilang running Fedora Linux for instance. It also goes down to seeing if supporting local initiatives rock or not.

No mention of the motherboard? Buy Malaysian :)

17" monitor is definitely useful, provided you have the desk space. I reckon this is a good time for furniture manufacturers to start offering packages too!

Re: AOSG; Novell in the news

Colin Charles — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:58:13 -0000

Yeah, but making it similar could mean that there's some form of similar interface, like Garrett did for RH no? Well, guess its time to wait for SuSe 9.1 to come out :)

Re: 1.1.1 is NOT officially released

Colin Charles — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:18:08 -0000

Sweet, guess that means we'll look into updating the website (with new instructions as well) CraHan! But really, we have preview OS X builds out there, floating around - I for one have them...

Re: 1.1.1 is NOT officially released

Colin Charles — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:40:47 -0000

Just been informed that the webpages have been updated; they'll be in a more usable form soon.

Unofficial builds (well, okay, my builds) are sitting online and I've made announcements at: <a href="http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2004... 1.1.1b for OS X for instance.

Re: 1.1.1 is NOT officially released

Colin Charles — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:40:13 -0000

Input down my way btw, but my latest build is on fix3 - not quite useful. I'll have another build up and running soon enough, just watch this space for more information

Re: Red Hat Meetup

Colin Charles — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:41:36 -0000

It seems to be a known problem, its all over Bugzilla, as well as the lists

Re: dist-upgrade time

Colin Charles — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:04:46 -0000

Hmm, its not another OS that will solve my problem - its a requires in the package format. GNOME is nice, and while switching to KDE or XFce is an option, its not one that I'm taking.

BSD isn't too bad, I'd run FreeBSD, and it'll still have GNOME. Understand, this is PPC, so not everything "just works" (I'd have to have NetBSD for instance, which...just isn't right for me).

Re: More OOo notes?

Colin Charles — Sun, 09 May 2004 22:42:10 -0000

Yup, know about the vnc install. I'm thinking more than just a walkthru, with no audio... I'm thinking of 1-hr instructional videos, and so on. I know this gets done at the Microsoft camp, so it'll be interesting to further work on it.

Re: Malaysia’s making waves

Colin Charles — Tue, 11 May 2004 11:42:20 -0000

Nah, not coming home. LinuxWorld is really not my cup of tea, as some of you might already be able to tell...

Re: PPC kernel hang

Colin Charles — Sun, 16 May 2004 20:22:17 -0000

Thanks Icon. Worth documenting.

Re: Fedora News Updates #12

Colin Charles — Sun, 23 May 2004 12:43:02 -0000

Yeah, I think I'll post about it soon. There are no emulators to the best of my knowledge, but I'll be sure to document my little experiments with it. More time on my hands will rock :)

Re: XP Dual Boot problem fix?

Colin Charles — Sat, 29 May 2004 23:16:45 -0000

Ah, WiraOne, this is where you haven't done enough homework. All 2.6 based distros currently are suffering. Why, you might ask, do we blame the kernel? Because the kernel removed drive geometry handling support, and during installation, anaconda uses parted - parted doesn't handle all this as well as it should. Previously it had kernel support, nowadays it doesn't - so its eating up partitions, or so it may seem - its not 100% reproducible either, which makes it harder to debug.

So since userspace is taking control of hard disk geometry, and parted isn't handling it as well, it breaks. Of course, if you aren't doing an anaconda install, and are say, yum updating from FC1->FC2 (or in your case running a custom compiled kernel), it will just work and this "bug" won't bite.

This is confirmed to be a 2.6 kernel issue, read the lkml archives... And remember, it bits every 2.6-based distro out there - Mandrake 10, SuSE 9.1, and so on. It's not a Fedora isolated problem.

Re: XP Dual Boot problem fix?

Colin Charles — Sun, 30 May 2004 17:40:58 -0000

Well, the "kernel guy" made the change because it was a decision made by all - let the kernel do less of handling partition tables, and let a userspace utility do it. They have "warned" the developers of parted, but that aside, time probably didn't permit such fixtures. Yum upgrading probably would've "saved" you, so to speak.

Re: Novell’s novel move to OpenOffice.org

Colin Charles — Sat, 29 May 2004 23:12:19 -0000

Thanks for such comments - maybe its time we go thru a UI review, and fix it...

Re: Another day, another review

Colin Charles — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:12:16 -0000

Link, keep in mind that the site, Linux.com is sponsored by Novell. There's nothing saying that Novell wrote/sponsored such an article. You'd just expect more from Linux.com, being owned by a reputable company (OSDN), to actually post a review that makes sense... Not one thats incorrect.

Re: Another day, another review

Colin Charles — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:34:37 -0000

Well, I'm not about to start a conspiracy theory - a lot of the Novell hackers (the Ximian monkeys) do a great job on GNOME/OOo, and I have immense respect for them. As to why YaST gets a mention, beats me, but Novell will also be using GNOME 2.6 in SuSE 9.1, so really, I doubt they'd be bagging it.

Re: OOo TechPreview4

Colin Charles — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:37:04 -0000

They're available at the usual download location: http://macosxrc.services.openoffice.org/pub/Ope...

Re: Got my tickets…

Colin Charles — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:49:48 -0000

Mikal, its required if you're a non-Aussie passport holder, however

Re: FNU #13, Fedora docs

Colin Charles — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:33:42 -0000

If they are interesting threads, that aren't covered in the lists, and hopefully, not covered in another FNU issue, sure, but I definitely can't cope up with reading the forums as well. The lists are killer enough :)

Re: iPod

Colin Charles — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:05:46 -0000

Well, Firewire isn't common on PCs - for instance, I only have one PC with Firewire. All other relatively new boxes lack Firewire... so I presume PC means USB2 at least :P

Re: iPod

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:22:07 -0000

I'm sure I'd look into playing with it... Incidentally, you're with HFS+ or vfat?

Re: More on Bill’s agenda

Colin Charles — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:14:15 -0000

Mark, I'd recommend Fedora :) But I'm biased

Re: Localisation and its merits

Colin Charles — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:46:04 -0000

Dinesh, wouldn't it be safe to say that BM has been derived from Bahasa Indonesia? So while lexically it may be similar, shouldn't the court be in Bahasa Indonesia, rather than the local Malay language?

BM itself, from the usual bunch of translators, agree that its only widely used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. I doubt the widely bit in Singapore (really, anyone who goes there knows not), and I can't say much for Brunei.

Bahasa Indonesia is widely used, and widely taught around the rest of the world. I can't say the same about BM. But yes, lexically, its similar, but its a different beast in many other ways.

Re: Localisation and its merits

Colin Charles — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:47:08 -0000

Also, what's with Gartner also calling it a miss? http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3394991?

Impressive, for once they're seemingly saying something that makes sense. Piracy, here it comes!

Re: FC3 newness talk

Colin Charles — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:21:05 -0000

Thanks for that. The last time I got an update from Gareth, I think it stood at 3,500 :)

Re: FC3 newness talk

Colin Charles — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:05:00 -0000

First off, NetworkManager screenshots are what GNOME ships (thanks Dan, one of the NM hackers). I didn't realise this got linked to osnews (?), gah, so no, you have to use xpdf rather than gpdf which seems to not handle exports from OpenOffice.org correctly. Its an open GNOME bug...

This is a look at whats new in FC3 test2 (especially), and believe me, it can include GNOME 2.8. And KDE 3.3. And from the time the presentation was written, the schedule for FC3 has changed (been pushed back a week).

Remember, lots of things can *change* from now till then. But this is a pretty good idea of the new features out there.

Re: FC3 newness talk

Colin Charles — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:07:29 -0000

VJ, it's not shying away from KDE 3.3. It'll be there. It just so happens that I had around 2 hours to write the talk (people backed out!), so I put my focus on GNOME. KDE will still be there, as will XFce4.

Re: The birth of The Fedora Universe

Colin Charles — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:57:07 -0000

Well, mine took a week, but it got there. I did get a new screen, I think, since I lack that one lone dead pixel I had... Otherwise, doubt the cdrom drive is new or anything, and my Linux is still generally intact :)

Re: 9/11 Fedora PPC tree – sleep works with pmud

Colin Charles — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:47:08 -0000

YDL4 is a hacked up version of FC2, and more. Their work is not pointless, don't forget they hack it up nicely with the idea that they're going to sell the lot and get money for it. Re pushing back useful things to upstream, I'm not going to comment :)

What do you want to put on your powerbook? I'd say Fedora, because a) I hack on it, b) I'd think is "better" and more "current". Keep in mind you pay for ydl...

Re: Red Hat World Tour

Colin Charles — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:15:13 -0000

Pointed out quietly later, becuase it really did seem like a "why you'd buy RHEL, along with Oracle, running on Intel platforms". If his name's right, I think he's a Mike Evans. Tall, American bloke...

Re: What is a cynic?

Colin Charles — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 11:03:21 -0000

Yes, it doesn't seem to be correct, but I'd say almost correct. At least the text isn't garbled. Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm not getting any bombs from Evince on FC4test2, or whatever sync of rawhide I have running here at the moment.

Re: New bike

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:25:38 -0000

Its simply cooler. It runs on older Macs better than Tiger possibly would. Its a familiar environment

Re: Marry your niece

Colin Charles — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:00:45 -0000

Thanks Chris. Trip was too rushed, maybe next time.

Ah, Simos, maybe. But doubt it was the case - this bloke really did look like someone that would marry his niece (well, after all the looks and smiles he gave us). Oh well, we'll never know. He also had a special entry visa that allows one to get married and leave the country, so I guess that helps :P

Re: Some mac stuff

Colin Charles — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:59:49 -0000

Thanks Hubert. I'll start taking a look at fink/darwinports (preferring the latter), so lets hope things just work.

They're firmly behind gcc (and you can tell from their public branches too). Developer machines too were xcode 2.1+gcc

Re: video=ofonly for the mac mini in Fedora Core 4

Colin Charles — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:47 -0000

Aye, we can all use PS3's for Linux/PPC

Re: video=ofonly for the mac mini in Fedora Core 4

Colin Charles — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:48:52 -0000

FC-4 can't run on a USB connected hard drive.

If you have partitioning issues, look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.c... for a solution.

Try and give your free partition a name in the OS X installer, as opposed to it being nameless.

Re: Maemo and Fedora

Colin Charles — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:50:46 -0000

Not that I've used. Currently, seeing that we don't have a n770 lying around, how could this be used?

Re: last week roundup

Colin Charles — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:50:01 -0000

Paul, no flickr - www.flickr.com

Re: Switch

Colin Charles — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:01:55 -0000

Don't get me wrong, I'll certainly be using open source software. I just want the underlying OS to be something thats got bling and yet is stable. Probably also so that I can use my x86 laptop to get /more/ Linux development done (esp. when it's not the main email box and /home).

Re: Switch

Colin Charles — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:43 -0000

Hi Rachel! Do you Flickr? ;-)

Re: Busy weekend

Colin Charles — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:02:41 -0000

Cool, thank you very much Nathan. No need to build, yet get my OSS software. Best of both worlds.

Re: independence

Colin Charles — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:31:34 -0000

Sure becky. Just that the deadline for promoting me, is getting closer if I wanna make 'em balls.

Re: Whoote… almost there

Colin Charles — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:23:38 -0000

Hey rudy! Yeah, and I got some horrible news re: david last night. I was told he passed away. Looking for details, re funeral, or anything. Sigh

Re: Bad Cisco VPN client

Colin Charles — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:22:59 -0000

no idea simos. And thanks for that Nathan... at least I know the cisco client didn't totally bork everything.

I've given up even trying too much to get on the vpn. It annoys me to no end, and even dies quite often on OS X.

Re: 2005 iBooks, with a lot of RAM, lose Airport Extreme connectivity

Colin Charles — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:47:32 -0000

I got myself a reply from Apple. It is a known issue, and its being investigated by engineering.

Apparently, there's been a change in design of the newer iBook's. I personally don't know, and can't say what exactly is the problem. Its an annoying one, that I hope gets fixed with newer Airport updates, ASAP.

This is akin to scratching iPod Nano's and what not. If we can get enough annoyed folk, Apple needs to get this fixed, ASAP.

Re: 2005 iBooks, with a lot of RAM, lose Airport Extreme connectivity

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:14:04 -0000

I dunno if the Powerbook really shows it. I have a new Powerbook, but I think I did apply the update after a day. In fact, I applied *all* the updates from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 via Airport and it didn't filch, so I have no idea what was going on there. Heck, when I reinstalled the iBook from 10.4 and did the upgrade to 10.4.3, it also didn't seem to affect me. It was only 10.4.2, bugg as.

I haven't seen that problem for the sole purpose that I've upgraded to using the powerbook (and am not seeing the error). Re the iBook, it now runs Linux where the airport really isn't supported atm, so I'm quite unsure if it happens. If time does permit, I'll try transferring something large and seeing if the iBook chokes.

Re: 2005 iBooks, with a lot of RAM, lose Airport Extreme connectivity

Colin Charles — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:08:29 -0000

firmware fixed said problem... it works just fine now

Re: OSX has bugs…

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:11:52 -0000

Breun, I own a brand new spanking iBook G4, the latest 12" they released. the 12" model has a trackpad that supports scrolling with the use of two fingers. Yes, 10.4 did not support it, but 10.4.2 does.

Yes, Mail.app listed all files in my homedir. Its of a machine where I do not control the IMAP, so rather than poking further, I decided it would make more sense to just use Thunderbird. I've been meaning to switch from Evolution, but clearly I'm now using both.

Re: Change in Affiliation

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:14:33 -0000

Thanks aizat.

Re: Change in Affiliation

Colin Charles — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:37:37 -0000

Thanks Wahlau.

James, what were you hoping it meant?

L3v1, I believe it got fixed.

aubrey, yeah sorry, I was busy getting that shipped. I don't actually own any Hanson music, so thats a negative.

Re: MySQL/64-bit and memory allocation

Colin Charles — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:24:37 -0000

Yea, but I've gotten more insight to that said out of memory problem. Will blog about it later

Re: SDForum Silicon Valley Ruby Conference

Colin Charles — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:02:13 -0000

hmm, /me wonders who missm is :-)

Re: SFO airport adventures

Colin Charles — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:19:32 -0000

Rocking Mikal. We already have hooked up :-)

@Oscar: yeah, immigration was surprisingly short when I arrived. I was amazed. Sorry, all beer-ed out for the day, but I'm sure you'll find us around tomorrow

Re: MySQL offering Ubuntu support; the Forge is live!

Colin Charles — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:08:14 -0000

Its great to note Thawte still uses it.

capgish: just do apt-cache search mysql

Find the package you want (mysql5) and install it!

Re: “65 minutes is the delivery time”

Colin Charles — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:44:21 -0000

Hey Leon! Its good to have you back!

The only catch with gourmet pizza joints vs. pizza hut is that the former only tend to open around 4pm or so. Not quite ready for my lunchtime antics

Re: “65 minutes is the delivery time”

Colin Charles — Sun, 14 May 2006 03:27:41 -0000

who are you missX? cuddling me? eh?

Re: Hello MacBook Pro

Colin Charles — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:44:23 -0000

thanks aizat.

and yes, Alex, you're right. This is clearly labelling in haste!

Thanks for the link Peter, I'll take a gander in a bit

Re: Hello MacBook Pro

Colin Charles — Mon, 22 May 2006 22:32:28 -0000

OK missX, you're getting to be rather annoying with no real name and some rather silly comments. You're coming in via the Monash proxy, so who in Monash are you?

If silly comments persists, and you don't want to reveal yourself, I'll be sure to mark a complaint down to ITS to ask them to provide some interesting fun to you =)

(and I doubt missX@hotmail.com works as an email address)

- love,
colin

Re: Do you MySQL 5? (.0.21)

Colin Charles — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:41:01 -0000

aye. but i was going more for with its shipping nature (shipped with 5.0.18)

Re: Community Contributed Documentation – Tamil sees some

Colin Charles — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:42:06 -0000

Sure your website is the authoritative source - but people looking for resources will have to travel to your website (and many other websites) just to find out topics on items.

This is why there are centralized sources of information. That was the goal of the Forge. Catalog projects, and collate documentation.

Sure the wiki is editable by anyone (registered). But that could also mean that if your content is valid for MySQL 5 and something has changed in 5.1, and there have been no updates in the last one month, someone within the community might find it useful to update it.

The idea is for colloboration. There's some really good quality content on Planet MySQL, that could become articles on the wiki as it enters some sort of base where information is kept.

The end goal is that its always easier to find for all end users. I think that's the real aim.

Remember credit/copyright is still yours. People will know you as the authoritative source. But it also gives people the option to extend on your knowledge. Thats what Wikipedia represents, right?

Re: An end of an era (and the beginning of one)

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:15:53 -0000

thanks :-)

Re: Will we get SkypeOut via GTalk?

Colin Charles — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:34:33 -0000

a list of my hardware? heh. i just might do that if its got any interest. Seems people want photos too... soon, soon. It requires free time, doesn't seem highl urgent

Re: Nokia N73: impressions on the Optus network, and a Mac

Colin Charles — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:51:43 -0000

It worked ;-) It didn't initially, and their instructions differed a bit, but I managed to configure it

I now have flickr or shozu uploads. Very nifty

Re: Nokia N73: impressions on the Optus network, and a Mac

Colin Charles — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:46:20 -0000

No, this is not an "how to unlock the nokia n73" site. wrong reason(s) to come here!

Re: Flight attendant gets inspired by “Veni. Vedi. Codi.”

Colin Charles — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:05:39 -0000

Ah yes, I have the pro version of OmniOutliner and I see it has an export to keynote function. I will definitely want to make use of it more, on the Powerbook.

(I used keynote on the Macbook pro, which is still not my main machine but something I do a lot of testing on)

Ah yes, I have that WWDC05 t-shirt. I should hope to take a photo of it in the event that I haven't already.

And yes, convenience and productivity boosting. I'm falling more deeply in love with OS X. And getting used to paying for software too... Keeping in mind I'm an open source hippie

Re: Flight attendant gets inspired by “Veni. Vedi. Codi.”

Colin Charles — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:52:44 -0000

@aubs: tsk tsk. remember i hack on openoffice.org... a little hard to want to use pages/keynote...

Re: Linux (performance, server, security) related book reviews

Colin Charles — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:59:49 -0000

yeah, I took Freakonomics (which I picked up at the airport). Also an interesting read.

Linux Server Hacks does have a second edition it seems, but its not stocked at any of the libraries I'm a member of. What a pity, I guess I might have to take a gander at a book store

Re: Video cameras and Linux

Colin Charles — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:35:39 -0000

Thanks Stewart & Andrew Z. I guess I'll go shopping for a DV cam since most work.

But still doesn't give me a solution to what was used to make the OGG videos...

Re: Are you an under-paid IT worker?

Colin Charles — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:34:28 -0000

So, what you're saying is that people have an over-inflated sense of what they're worth then. Because there are two sides to the coin: is the employer paying too little (as in a junior tester, might get $5,000 more per annum at a higher stress job, than just bagging groceries at the local supermarket) or is it such that junior testers expect to be paid a lot more?

Now, importing workers from overseas might be seen as "outsourcing", but if they work cheaper/better/faster, is it not a win-win situation? Keeps our IT deficit lower, anyways.

Getting talent and paying what talent is worth is important. But maybe talent has an over-inflated sense of worth. And we need "imports" to place a balance in the system.

FWIW, "importing" someone isn't a straight thru process. The employer has to prove that such a job cannot be done sufficiently by locals (in Australia). So its probably more than just costs involved, imho.

And is it not fair, to pay a programmer between $45,000 (with say no experience!) to $65,000 (with more than 2 years work experience)?

Re: Are you an under-paid IT worker?

Colin Charles — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:30:24 -0000

I don't know, in this modern globalised world, Australasia should think about some sort of European Union like thing.

Local talent pools are important, but they've also got to "compete" with the rest of the world. This applies to all countries, even developing ones (in where say First World local talent pools tend to go over and do "information exchange") - which is why FOSS is so important.

The cost of living is high, but here comes the clincher of all of this: if we in Australia can hire foreign talent for cheaper, and yet they survive with these "perceived lower wages", then why should it be a problem with the local talent pool?

I'm paranoid about business people's motives, but I'm also game for a free market. I hate "protectionist" schemes. Everyone should be able to compete in a nice free market...

Only then, will the bar for skills be raised.

Remember: if you want to be a gardener, be the best at it. That way, no matter what, you'll always be in demand. Thats how the local talent pool should think and want to get things done.

Worrying about competition is just silly. In the very near future, borders will become oblivious, and if you've not got the skill to offer, thats going to be just too bad.

This is why America's been doing wonders in the IT sector - their H1B visas probably had a role to play in that. Now they're tempting Aussies to head over, to further drain our local talent pool, with the E1 visas. Australia needs to think out of the box and do something similar if we want to reduce our over $20 billion ICT deficit.

Re: Maemo 3.0 on Fedora Core 6 (N800 development environment)

Colin Charles — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:08:24 -0000

Cool, thanks for the information. Odd that it mentions its x86 only, it actually works out of the setarch. Did you set it up in full x86_64?

Re: MySQL, with SHOW PROFILE and updated INFORMATION_SCHEMA, built from the Community tree

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:09:17 -0000

Thanks for the links Giuseppe.

@John: I'm not one to give dates, but I believe you'll see it sometime this week if not next. Going by the fact that the last release was a source only release, this would most definitely be a binary + source release

5.0.35 was delayed because of a security bug, hence 5.0.37 is born!

Re: Too many OpenID registras considered harmful?

Colin Charles — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:15:04 -0000

Thanks for that bjorn. But I'd rather not have to run yet another service...

I envisioned OpenID to be more like how DNS "just works". I didn't want to see so many "registras". I don't want my livejournal account, wordpress.com account and my open id account all being openids?

Now, I've got more that one that I need. So I guess the solution is to run it on bytebot.net, and register/use that everywhere. But what about all the useless accounts that I'll also have in addition provided by wordpress.com, or lj, or something?

Re: Car, GPS recommendations

Colin Charles — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:34:01 -0000

@aubs: i probably need to charge my camera, but yes, soon...

@jace: in melbourne

@steve: Did you mean the 8350? This is the $599 unit. I might look into that a little closer. Uniden also have a product that just warns you of speed cameras (its a box, about $200), but that still means I'll have to buy yet another gps... The Uniden comes with free updates via the Interweb, which is great (i hear tomtom/garmin, costs money).

Re: Car, GPS recommendations

Colin Charles — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:22:00 -0000

I've popped some photos at: http://flickr.com/photos/byte/tags/hyundaigetz

@Tiago: Well, iPod's with firmware tend not to play via the cd player. In fact, if I install alternate firmware on the Nano, I can't even get the FM function to work. So thats too much hassle.

A car PC is something that has interested me. I'm not sure what the exact use cases are, but its something I'm willing to look at. It'll be nifty that my car get an IP address, but what are its practical uses?

Re: Its mid-week for the Google Summer of Code – we have some new goodies!

Colin Charles — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:52:55 -0000

Define further, what it means to compare MySQL databases on different servers?

Like if we're looking at replication, to see if slaves are in sync with master? Or if the data integrity is kept constant?

If you've got a spec of sorts, I'd be happy to get that implemented for the Google Summer of Code, pending finding a mentor.

Re: Linux is going to get friendlier, real soon now

Colin Charles — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:52:19 -0000

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureC... <-- codecbuddy

Re: Zimbra: Its just so enterprise-like!

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:37:08 -0000

Its amazing stuff. I've been palying with and using it for a while, and am quite confident in its day-to-day use, and administration.

Re: Zimbra: Its just so enterprise-like!

Colin Charles — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:53:41 -0000

@james: I think the strength in Zimbra is that its not split up and its all one application. Splitting up can be a nightmare with different versions and so on.

@chris: I'm sure with some minor hackery, you can get it running on Fedora Core 6. AFAIK, the only supported OSes of the 4.x release are currently RHEL4 (and consequently, CentOS 4). If you were aiming to run on Fedora, it can't be that much harder.

64-bit is a little bit of a problem I guess - you should be able to install i386 packages on x86_64. What kind of error is RPM giving you? I say a problem, because you'll be running 32-binaries in a 64-bit environment. multiarch works quite well, i might add, on fedora and rpm based systems.

Re: RSS usurps old media – yet there are associated problems

Colin Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:16:17 -0000

A few readers? Liferea doesn't seem to support it. I definitely like your bookmark list, but will find it hard to take offline...

Re: RSS usurps old media – yet there are associated problems

Colin Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:24:23 -0000

Maybe firefox 3 is the solution - http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/02/03/firefox3-web...

Re: Which Ubuntu for a Core 2 Duo?

Colin Charles — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:29:41 -0000

@cos: my issue seems to be with can I intertwine with 32-bit userspace (say like flash)?

@simos: t7200, intel.

@cameron: thanks! first deterministic answer for a desktop user. congratulations! Even the folk on #ubuntu are out to confuse one, then recommend i386 ;-)

@chris: no evolution for me anymore...

So I'm still wondering, 64-bit kernel, but 32-bit app support is not an apt-get away? Hmm. Then again, even on Fedora, I don't bother with Flash, proper... Choices, choices.

Re: Which Ubuntu for a Core 2 Duo?

Colin Charles — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:39:29 -0000

@amy: apparently Ubuntu runs really well on the MacBook's.

Though you might just consider running it under Paralles.

RHEL is meant to have support (as is Fedora), but at last check, there might have been problems with sleep. This might /also/ plague Ubuntu, but from what I gather, thats whats better for laptops these days

Re: Which Ubuntu for a Core 2 Duo?

Colin Charles — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:31 -0000

@dave: Sure, if you're running the amd64 version, sure.

Re: Hardware upgrades, or cleaning out the lab

Colin Charles — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:27:35 -0000

Server given away to a new home?

Re: Wordpress: Plugin architecture makes it great, but a long way to go for release engineering

Colin Charles — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:55:41 -0000

@ty: I'm sure its a lot less, if you've got no plugins, and so forth... Maybe if you follow their ftp it over method or something.

@james: Update mechanisms are being built into software and I think its significant web-ware have it too.

@biatch0: Maybe its time to audit plugins, and created a "supported" and a "everything" set. Looks like there can be a business here, seeing that so many people are into blogs...

Re: FLOSS Chick of the Month

Colin Charles — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:06:27 -0000

OK, this got a lot of "late" responses...

@wahlau: yes, your wife, your friends, etc. they're all "foss girls" and might as well be profiled, I think. I never suggested for people to dress up sexily or take their clothes off - you don't see those in cigarette or liquor ads either...

@mary: re: audience. I think most people are happy to use FOSS at home, save for the hetrosexual males that are hooked on games :P

@donna: I think it'd be a great idea if you were a booth babe. And yes, lets skip the lycra. Dress tastefully, like you normally are, and that in itself will sell. If you're after semi-naked booth boys, that can also be useful, I don't see why not... (I was never suggesting semi-naked booth girls :P)

Lets all remember, I only provided an observation of what E3 and so on had. Tight fitting clothes on ladies, no big deal. Good looking clothes on regular OSS users that aren't super models I think will also work just as well

@mary again: I don't think we're talking about bright pink attire. Ever been to the car festivals? Or big PC ones?

In fact, a good example is the recent Windows WOW campaign. Seen the folk that they've got standing around at train stations and shopping malls? Microsoft clearly doesn't think there's much to anything wrong with such "advertisments"

Whether the increased sales volume is worth such a message (if even people take it that way - i.e. lets go by the 80-20 pareto principle here) is highly debatable

@anonymous: tsk tsk.

@all: why the sudden late reply? did this hit linuxchix or something in a bad way?

Re: Palm embraces Linux – a trip down memory lane

Colin Charles — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:11:19 -0000

I don't doubt what is true about OSS reducing costs, and so forth. Agree with your statements. What I'm referring to, is probably taking a jab at Nokia more than anything - the n770/n800 is clearly just a device that developers tote, but is not something the mass market will have.

If executed well, i.e. there's great support, everything works, there's software that can use the video camera, and so forth, without actually depending on external developers to deliver support after the device hits the market, I do believe that these Linux based devices will hit the end user market

End users care about usabilty. And functionality. Not the OS beneath it. That I think might be Nokia's mistake with the n770/n800 and the Maemo platform in general. Yes, being open is nice, developers drool. But end users, want things to just work.

I do wish well the OpenMoko team - they too can't just target developers, but the mass market. 80-20 rule, eh?

Re: Dell Inspiron 640m Linux support getting “a little” better

Colin Charles — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:19:17 -0000

No, not quite. But when I moved away from Mac OS X for daily laptop use, I became spoiled for choice with the just works scenario there.

Its embarassing giving a presesntation to a predominantly large Linux crowd, using Windows, because your laptop crashes everytime you try to get external video working. And its a pain in the arse, to have to carry 2 laptops (one solely for presentation work).

I'm looking for a solution in where things just work. I'm getting too old and tired to be doing things that are out of my problem domain, per se

Re: Dell Inspiron 640m Linux support getting “a little” better

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:19:01 -0000

@spiri: disabled in bios by default, but its just an option to turn it on. works a charm :-)

Re: Dell Inspiron 640m Linux support getting “a little” better

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:46:14 -0000

@lin: consider Feisty Fawn. It works just fine here, on my 640m.

Re: Business Scripting Languages or SAP’s marketing talk + Stanford HCI mashup

Colin Charles — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:58:25 -0000

Hi Leslie, is there any chance that we could play with your mashup?

Re: Scaling Twitter: “Is Twitter is UDP or TCP? Its definitely UDP.”

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:20:49 -0000

@wahlau: repeated? How so? Like I said, I didn't edit it...

@james: Thanks! Running x86_64 linux means no official Flash plugin, which means grief as swfdec and gnash get up to scratch.

@Blaine: It was my pleasure. I've been in touch with Jack Dorsey as well, in case we at mysql can help!

Re: A Storage Engine for Amazon S3

Colin Charles — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:05:22 -0000

yup cos, you're right. price dropping, but it still costs money to send data there - http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427...

Re: Scaling MySQL presentations

Colin Charles — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:23:05 -0000

Thanks for the info Tatsuhiko-san! I think you guys did a fantastic job (I don't read/write Japanese either :P) and its a good idea for our MySQL Users Conference in Japan to also have such beautiful translations

Re: movies, april 2007

Colin Charles — Mon, 07 May 2007 04:44:22 -0000

Haha, yes, I'm sure she did. Kirsten Dunst for Spiderman next? ;-)

Re: Multi-arch on Debian/Ubuntu suck

Colin Charles — Mon, 07 May 2007 04:23:35 -0000

Hey James. Yeah, I could install all the ia32 libraries, and then force-architecture, but figured that its probably not what I wanted to do. So I went the chroot way.

@l3v1: well, I guess once you get past the quirks, it all just works out for you. Its just that you get spoiled by Fedora and RPM

Re: Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:59:46 -0000

makes me wonder if rms is actually in melbourne now, as we speak... ;-0)

Re: Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)

Colin Charles — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:52:05 -0000

Thanks Gustavo. I did state double-hifen, but the CSS magic on this website made it look like one long emdash! Sorry for the inconvenience...

Re: Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)

Colin Charles — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:02:22 -0000

Sound "just works". didn't do anything in the chroot, and I configure via volume control in the 64-bit environment

Re: Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)

Colin Charles — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:59:58 -0000

seems to work for me, the opening web links bit. but thats probably because i also run firefox in a chroot (so that i can get flash, and so on)

Re: Dell collaborates with Microsoft/Novell – 2007 is definitely the year of desktop Linux

Colin Charles — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:33:37 -0000

I don't think Ubuntu has taken the place as the mass choice desktop solution. Or maybe its taken me this long to drink the kool aid, but I can assure you, Fedora or Mandriva still have their place...

Re: bytebot.net gets plain jane html redesign

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:28:35 -0000

cool. definitely got to look into that google reader displaying current blog posts feature.

i guess i can also use php as opposed to apache SSI. either way, it'll work, just haven't decided what i'll do in due time.

kudos for the "beta" idea as well - i just push things live :)

Re: rdiff-backup is my backup tool of choice

Colin Charles — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:20:25 -0000

Thanks. I'll definitely now take a gander at that. Its probably useful since I'd want to use an untrusted dreamhost account...

BTW, I'm on Ubuntu on my main desktop now. Just about 2 years since you convinced me :0)

Re: Feed reading – Liferea, Google Reader

Colin Charles — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:43:49 -0000

I think thats the beauty of open source software and the future of software lies in it. People want choices and options. NetNewsWire is a great offline news reader. Heck, I even ponied up for the paid version because it did more stuff for me.

But just being tied to Newsgator, is a bad idea. Users need sensible defaults, yes, but users also like choice.

Google Reader does have an API. NetNewsWire should allow plugging into it. Will it happen? I doubt it. But if it was still independent Mac software, maybe it'll have just a smattering of a chance. After all, the author is a really nice & sensible bloke ;-)

Re: movies, may 2007

Colin Charles — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:52:36 -0000

shipping. instant gratification. I actually did recently buy Alias 1-4 via ebay...

Re: Main stream Ubuntu – bug reporting users that aren’t packagers

Colin Charles — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:01:32 -0000

Thanks for noting that on the bug report Jerome

Re: OpenOffice.org worm that affects Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Colin Charles — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:50:21 -0000

In the wild when you receive badbunny.odt. I've personally not seen/received it. I'd state without a doubt that OOo is probably more secure than MS Office, but as it becomes more "compatible" and "feature complete" (some versions are now executing vba macros, even), its inevitable that security holes are going to be opened up

Re: ExpressCard for data + Virgin postpaid for the cheapest mobile data option?

Colin Charles — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:13:42 -0000

Aha, thanks for that. No usage meter would be a real bummer. Its hard to keep track of data use then.

Looking at further research, it seems 3's 1GB plan might actually work out to be the cheapest option. $49/month, with excess charges by the megabyte not kilobyte. Vodafone is charging $59 for the same deal.

So, I can't get 300mb/$10/month with just a SIM deal. Darn. No virgin for me then.

(ironic, and unrelated. Virgin Mobile prepaid was my first ever foray into a mobile phone...)

Re: Multiple parties video-conferencing with Skype and Global IP Video

Colin Charles — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:34:47 -0000

Hi JZA, it loaded on my Linux box just fine. I have the Flash plugin (nonfree) and all is well. Of course, I have no webcam, but I could configure/play around with the app itself.

Working Linux webcams... oh the joy

Re: MySQL APAC tour locations

Colin Charles — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:03:44 -0000

Good point Jace. Maybe I should aim for it around the time of foss.in in november? I realise even listing tokyo/beijing above is far too premature, but bangalore definitely should be on my to-visit list

Re: What a standard means (and why you should sign the NO OOXML petition)

Colin Charles — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:51:34 -0000

Please TimC, do complain to their webmasters. I have no control over their site! Kind regards

Re: Ubuntu Live

Colin Charles — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:17:19 -0000

Yay, Jay wins the set of tupperware :-)
(But should probably be disqualified because he's a mysql'er :P)

@Stephen: Heh, a consolation, but not any real reward, no. Was hoping to meet you at the MySQL Conf, but maybe next year...

Re: The last couple of weeks

Colin Charles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:59:44 -0000

And where do I get one of these machines in Australia?

Re: YUM’s mirror-select

Colin Charles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:51:03 -0000

@cos: yeah, but the default ubuntu install (and I'm trying to be a user here) only lists *one*. And there's no real fabulous message if you use their gui front-end tool

btw, yum can search from its cached repositories as well. and its pretty darn sped up nowadays - try it in F7

Re: HOWTO: The Nokia E61i as a modem via Bluetooth in Ubuntu on 3

Colin Charles — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:25:16 -0000

Thanks Yoon Kit! I'm sure it'll come in handy the next time I'm using Maxis.

Re: Vice-advertising moving to various Internet mediums

Colin Charles — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:30:35 -0000

@russell: i should've clarified it a little more when I was referring to them being "a list" (or even b or c-list blogberities (sp?)). Naturally, these bloggers are pretty popular in Malaysia, and thats where the party was.

in my large-ish feed list (probably not as large as robert scoble's) i also occasionally scan singaporean based blogs, and its amazing to see nokia just throw phones their way. well, in america, microsoft throws laptops for bloggers.

in australia, i've yet to find any of this sort of advertising per se, and we have some really popular "a-list" (or b/c list even :P) blogs, circling from food right up to tech news.

Re: Pimping my friends: an ODF e-Note and haze.net

Colin Charles — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:24:14 -0000

Excellent then, in that case. But I'm sure you have to defray hosting costs, et al.

FWIW, James Purser dropped me this link via IRC: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/02/1...

Its an interesting read, especially from an Australian perspective, where our weather is changing, pretty drastically.

Re: Zimbra, and Nokia Symbian Series 60 IMAPS issue

Colin Charles — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:51:59 -0000

Thanks Dan! Now, I'll definitely want to pop the 4.5.7 release on, and give it a twirl. However, the download page still lists 4.5.6 as the GA release?

Latest 4.5.6 Notes (2007-06-28 17:30)

I wonder when 4.5.7 will make its rounds, but I'll definitely upgrade, asap, the moment its about

Re: MSN censors your messages

Colin Charles — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:47:27 -0000

Yeah, it seems like thats the other option, tinyurl. But I shouldn't have to go thru an extra hoop just to send messages. msn seems evil

Re: High Scalability

Colin Charles — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:51:43 -0000

Hi!

From a mysql perspective, I can't say its a big deal that there's no big site out there running postgresql ;-)

From a technical perspective though, if there are, I'd like to know what they are doing to scale to the bazillion visitors that they get

Re: On MySQL’s Commitment to Open Source

Colin Charles — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:32:28 -0000

Tarballs (enterprise) are only available to customers, that is correct. Source trees (with appropriate tags, to generate your own tarball) is and always will be available at mysql.bkbits.net. But you do need a login to enterprise.mysql.com to get enterprise tarballs (sources, binaries, multiple platforms, etc.)

Tarballs (community) are available to all and sundry

Re: Google’s index is broken

Colin Charles — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:33 -0000

Hey Yusmar. Nah, scroll down, there are more colin charles listed on the net. My question now is, why do they rank domains higher in the list, than listening to their relevant pagerank?

If I'm linked to more, I should be at the top with PR=6, rather than the 3rd, being "beaten" by a PR=1 and PR=3 site, respectively

Re: Zimbra acquired by Yahoo! – congratulations, and hope they don’t kill it

Colin Charles — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:16:25 -0000

flickr has had policy changes, but they've not been killed (and i'd be royally pissed if thats the case). del.icio.us surprisingly has hardly changed, post-yahoo!

Re: Best way to learn Mandarin in GNU/Linux or OS X?

Colin Charles — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:23:32 -0000

(18:20:41) twitter@twitter.com: skinnylatte: @bytebot looks like wordpress ate my first comment on your blog. i wanted to link to this site. http://urltea.com/1ihj

Re: Linux IS NOT ready for the laptop

Colin Charles — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:53:22 -0000

What Ubuntu did you load? I'm on the 7.04 release

This is an Inspiron 640m, 1440x900. FFS, intel are still making you use the 915resolution tool - trust me, their support isn't "kosher"

OK, sleep /mostly/ works. Wifi works as long as its always enabled. Disable it, put the machine to sleep, wake it up, and use it, put it to sleep again, wake it up, reenable wifi, and cry bloody murder. Of course, sleep might've failed anyways, and then you don't have this problem.

What wifi driver are you using? I have a feeling that the "Restricted" wifi driver for ipw3945d might be the cause of waking up.

Does your external display get driven without any problems?

Re: Linux IS NOT ready for the laptop

Colin Charles — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:43:05 -0000

Of course, its the *next* release you're talking about. Well, I do certainly hope that the next release is a lot better...

I have the *latest* intel. unless the drivers have been fixed in gutsy, all the better.

I'll give Gutsy a try when its actually you know released, but till then...

ipw3945 is probably standard with laptops these days, unless you're getting a different chipset. I don't think mine's problematic either, since its standardised - the only restricted bit, really, is the fact that the firmware is not "free" (its binary blobbed)

Re: Linux IS NOT ready for the laptop

Colin Charles — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:48:50 -0000

@Thomas: No, using something that works for *end users* should be the aim of the Linux desktop. Not expect to try out beta software, tribe releases, and so on.

I understand that Gutsy will be better than Feisty, similar to how Rawhide will be better than the current Fedora release, but why would I also risk random failures, especially when I need a machine that works, rather than randomly futzing with things?

Take a step back, and think of it from a *user* perspective. Not from a developer perspective. Sometimes, its nice to be a user.

@Marco@Dell: Thanks for your comments. Its interesting to note that you guys are remastering images, and I'm wondering if you're pushing all these known issues upstream? I'll be sure to give Gutsy Gibbon a go, the moment it is obviously released.

And you did mention that the D600 and 300m work, but they are older. I have no problems running Linux on older machines. I only have problems running them on relatively new/recent machines (this one I'm using is from February I think).

And I'm glad you guys have certified systems. I just wish it was available for more countries...

So thanks again, for responding, and I can hope that Gutsy serves me better :)

@David: Why would I sue Microsoft, when the software I get from Dell with Microsoft Windows drives all the features that the laptop ships? It is on the onus of the hardware manufacturer to ensure that all their hardware works as advertised. If you sell a laptop that cannot drive an external display (irrespective of software/hardware reasons), you are not selling a laptop that is "fit for purpose".

Dell is now selling laptops with Ubuntu. And they have a known issues page. A lot of the laptop hardware itself, isn't fit for purpose. When shipped with Microsoft Windows (which arguably, is software in itself that isn't fit for purpose), at least all portions of the laptop hardware works.

Apple is another good example. Their laptops come with hardware and software that is fit for purpose. Surely, if you install Linux on it and something doesn't work, its not Apple's fault. And neither is it Dell's fault for selling me this laptop (because it came with Windows XP pre-installed). However, their new "certified" systems, are where I worry, someone may realise that it isn't fit for purpose, and get annoyed.

Re: Multiple pop-up dialogs

Colin Charles — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:30:23 -0000

a picture of my dog, its on flickr...

Re: Tagging differentiation

Colin Charles — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:28:47 -0000

wordpress 2.3 also uses commas, so i'm presuming this is the way to go...

Re: Users Conference Japan 2007 – more notes and photos

Colin Charles — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:17:41 -0000

I don't mind it at all. In fact, I actually don't mind drinking quite a bit of it :) I get it at pretty much every MySQL event Monty shows up to!

But for those in Japan, it was a little "different" I guess. But everyone drank it with joy, from what I gathered

Re: rpm -q –changelog in Debian | on IRC (or adventures in the land of #ubuntu)

Colin Charles — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:14:00 -0000

@James: is that true? well, i think the problem ubuntu faces is that they've targeted the end-user. and end-users don't want to report bugs, etc. they now for the large part visit forums, rather than even mailing lists

developers, on the other hand, live and breathe out of their SCMs, a terminal, and a bugs database. this is where fedora gets it right - their target has always been freedom and an on-going moving development tree.

oh well. i do wish ubuntu the best of successes as its gotta be one of the best linux distributions since sliced bread

Re: Moving to another shard

Colin Charles — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:18:35 -0000

hey john! it wasn't a problem at all, just good to know that this happens from time to time. it was moved in under-15 minutes, and from the time i grabbed the screenshot, it was only another 6.5 minutes before i got access back to my account again.

quick operation, and continue making flickr rock!

Re: Building MySQL from source

Colin Charles — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:16:22 -0000

currently, no, since bitkeeper is the only scm offered

Re: more disgust, with the spaceflight participant

Colin Charles — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:02:38 -0000

@leon: i'll refrain from comments on ramadhan, since i myself have no idea what its all about, beyond what i (and the rest of the public) already know...

Yeah, I saw his talk at a linux.conf.au iirc, it was most interesting. I don't remember most of it now, since I'm not that large a space buff, but it was an interesting talk.

Re: more disgust, with the spaceflight participant

Colin Charles — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:11:37 -0000

@lotso: whats annoying is that its tax payer money for a tourist mission. its like asking the government to pay for your vacation! and the public cheering that it happens. seems like its debauchery thru & thru

this wouldn't stand if it happened in australia. or even the usa i'm sure. its just plain, utter, ridiculous.

Re: How to clone a virtual machine with VMWare Server

Colin Charles — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:32:11 -0000

@lotso: thats a given, with VMs mate.. but the fact that they're useful for "clean-room" environment testing, makes it all the more convenient/worthwhile

Re: How to clone a virtual machine with VMWare Server

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:16:44 -0000

@Mel: Maybe it does

@JZA: note that there is a new release of virtualbox out now!

Re: What languages (and connectors) do you primarily use for MySQL?

Colin Charles — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:43:49 -0000

I never got around to thanking you Markus. Good speedy work mate!

Re: Dual-display with the Intel 945GM on Gutsy Gibbon?

Colin Charles — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:43:03 -0000

Hi pedro, I doubt that I'm out of video ram. 64MB allocated should be ample for this. I should calculate... I futzed with it today, to no avail

Re: Google does IMAP meme

Colin Charles — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:22:55 -0000

@irwan: yes, it was always available at the google site

@mahir: write only? no, i can read and write, just fine

Re: Google does IMAP meme

Colin Charles — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:27:26 -0000

Ironically, mysql has the faster write-capable engine out there, called BLACKHOLE. when you use that as an engine, boy is it fast. But its really, as its name suggests, pointing to the direction of /dev/null :)

Re: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE or how Apple deals with bugs

Colin Charles — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:39:24 -0000

Russell: Because there are just some things that Linux, can't do. Or can't do well enough, yet. Frankly, from what I gather, I've gone about 80+ days without using OS X, but for driving a film scanner, I need to utilise it (I can so dream about Linux drivers...)

Sadly, the graphics world in Linux is catching up, but not quite "there" yet. While the GIMP is comparable to Photoshop in every release, workflow management, for RAW camera files for instance, is generally not available

Serious photography and graphics work, is just impossible, on Linux (currently)

Re: i am mysql

Colin Charles — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:31:32 -0000

@Jay: Oh gosh, I can imagine shoe throwing and a lack of sleep :)

@aubs: mysql is always hiring, please look at the jobs page!

Re: Leaving the sticks…

Colin Charles — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:26:12 -0000

Technically, I do live in Zone 1 - Huntingdale is my nearest train station :) But being an under-300m walk to the South Yarra train station is clearly reason to celebrate

Re: Protests, media training, and democracy

Colin Charles — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:42:49 -0000

@aubs: no, i occasionally have random political rants... its after all a personal blog ;) not a technical one. i have /other/ interests too :)

well, the aussie arena... i dunno, don't feel i'm ready to comment yet...

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:08:35 -0000

Russell, he wasn't dumped on false charges. There were real crimes, he spent time in prison, and couldn't actually run for Parliament for a number of years after his release (this is normal practice).

"On April 14, 1999, Anwar was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption and, on August 8, 2000, nine years in prison for sodomy. The sentences were to be served consecutively, and Anwar was given no credit for the six months he spent in jail during the trial." (via his wikipedia entry)

In the end, he only spent time in jail for corruption, he was by a token of luck, let off on sodomy (which, I think is a good thing...)

Sodomy, while not illegal, is a crime under Syariah Law (muslim law). I'm sure you've now seen that Syariah law is quite interesting - a woman can get raped, then thrown into jail, and given 200 lashings as well.

I don't find anything wrong with him being a sodomite (thanks, firefox's spell checker didn't pick up sodomist), but the law clearly has something else to say

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:10:46 -0000

Have made an edit to correct spelling errors.

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:50:42 -0000

Russell, his corruption charges were that of an abuse of power. Whether they were really crimes, or not, they found him guilty of it. He was convicted in court, and remains a convicted criminal. Now, he leads an opposition party. I don't expect it to clash with the Aussie slang word of "convict" either.

I clearly just want to ensure that Anwar himself, his statements, are just not trustworthy. He was a part of UMNO, and he will gladly be a part of UMNO if they take him back. Or maybe he won't be, due to pride. But he was largely the cause of much misery in the country, and its worth pointing it out. In fact, when the opposition DAP joined hands with Keadilan (Anwar's party) and PAS (pro-Islamists), DAP faced their worse loss of seats, *ever*. That's largely because the voting public realised, that its really hard to trust Keadilan or PAS (and its so true).

Russell, I don't know how much you know about Syariah Law, but sodomy is an illegal act in the eyes of Muslim Law. I do not care if people choose to practice it in their own hot tubs, but back in 1998, Anwar was convicted of sodomy, and that's that. Was it a political smear campaign? I don't care.

I'm not using it as a term of abuse. I am stating a mere fact, that were in popular media for months, back in the day. While the sodomy charges against Anwar were dropped, the other affected parties weren't so lucky. Even the judges that listened to the appeal, and thus reversed the charges, said: "We find evidence to confirm that the appellants were involved in homosexual activities and we are more inclined to believe that the alleged incident at Tivoli Villa did happen."

Welcome to Malaysia, Russell. You can *literally* get away with murder (for a modern, popular case, search and read up on the Altantunya Shariibuu case). Getting away with sodomy, should be /seriously/ easy.

Anwar will run in the 2008 elections. I do not wish him the best of luck. Mahathir might have been a big criminal, but it just seems to get worse with Badawi, and I don't see it improving if Anwar was in power. Malaysia needs new political blood, and race-based politics (and everything else) should seriously disappear.

I'm beginning to see less and less point in this argument, because Anwar isn't even the subject of this post. In fact, my disgust with Anwar came when he said Article 153 should not be questioned. Do you know what Article 153 is, Russell?

Do read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_153

I just read it to ensure its accuracy (beware, Malaysian politicians are just like their international counterparts, and have Wikipedia edit teams).

After reading about Article 153, I can't imagine /anyone/ not being angered by that bullshit.

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:18:49 -0000

Russell, FYI, sodomy *is* illegal under Civil Law in Malaysia too. Section 377 of the Malaysian Penal Code, filed under Unnatural Offences. 20 years imprisonment, or caning, is what you can be done in for, for being a sodomite.

You might find http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/malaysia/malays... interesting reading.

And, its not a term of abuse - check out the dictionary sometime, its generally defined as "a person who engages in sodomy."

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:34:02 -0000

The same Wikipedia page you quote, under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim#Rele... shows "On September 2, 2004, a panel of three judges of the Federal Court (Malaysia's highest court) overturned the sodomy conviction by 2 to 1, finding contradictions in the prosecution's case. However, the judges noted "We find evidence to confirm that the appellants were involved in homosexual activities and we are more inclined to believe that the alleged incident at Tivoli Villa did happen.""

Contradictions in the prosecutions case (as a reason to overturn the decision) sound very different to "reversing" the decision. I only wish there was a Freedom of Information Act, and we could access the Federal Court decisions easily, now...

"Funny" site, that GodHatesAmerica,com. I only got to read the cached version, and I don't think I sound anything like that, just by using the word 'sodomite'. And I doubt those that read the site regularly will have much to say about my post...

Thanks for your thoughts, re: strategy. Have a good day!

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:00:00 -0000

Donna, thanks for reading. There are way more references, that I clearly haven't included, say for example http://123indianonline.com/podcasts/hindraf-pho... and so on. I guess, your friendly neighbourhood search engine, Technorati, and blog searches (from google) might be your best bet.

Re: Ethnic Indians go to the street in Malaysia, for the HINDRAF gathering

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:23:33 -0000

Russell, "sodomite" is also defined as "someone who engages in anal copulation", and the focus is on male-to-male anal copulation. But I also checked dict(1) to find that there are so many more definitions, one of which is "One guilty of sodomy". I am now of the general belief that such a word itself, that can only be used on a "guilty" party, seems silly - so you've made your point.

So kudos, you've made your point, about the *word* sodomite.

Well, I'm referring to Malaysian civil/criminal law, i.e. the system of law in general. Seeing that its in the Penal Code, and this should be fairly similar to what is practised in the UK (and to an extent Australia). Malaysia as a country hasn't made much ground breaking law, having favoured Commonwealth law in general (quite unlike Australian law, in where Commonwealth law does apply, but there are some ground breaking new acts, etc.)

"Insufficient evidence" in Malaysia, really means a lot of things Russell. The judiciary is corrupt (please read up on the recent Fairuz/Lingam case/video), the police and public prosecution find that botching up things is really easy, and so on. Getting away on an "insufficient evidence" technicality is *really easy* in Malaysia. Like I said in a previous comment, even murderers go scot free.

All that aside, this is not the venue for discussing odd/corrupt practices. Did the legal system work for Anwar with one charge, and not another?

Thanks for the offer Russell. I didn't know you were affiliated with advocacy organisations. Do tell me more :)

Re: Last couple of weeks

Colin Charles — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:47:13 -0000

Disasters? No, but you're gonna tell me I'm sure :)

Re: Last couple of weeks

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:41:49 -0000

yes, how goes HP? Ouch, water damage must suck. The storms in December tend to be horrendous...

Re: Zimbra ZCS 5.0 GA – is it really a GA release?

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:33:23 -0000

Yes john, I just saw your announcement. Does it not seem to be a bit of a fib though, seeing that CentOS is exactly compatible with RHEL?

Re: Zimbra ZCS 5.0 GA – is it really a GA release?

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:26:36 -0000

Thanks for responding John. I'll be sure to try this out in a RHEL4 VM image in a while, and tell you more when time permits.

Incidentally, your recommendation of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS... there should be a new LTS release soon, I believe, will the upgrade path be supported? I noticed on the Wiki that there was a RHEL4->RHEL5 migration guide (which was really simple, turn off Zimbra, upgrade OS, be happy :P)

Thanks!

Re: Skype Video, and a Logitech webcam

Colin Charles — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:42:12 -0000

@aussieaubs: talk to? i.e. i could access the phone and memory card like a usb mass storage device, no issues there. what other means of talking to is there? ;)

Re: Skype Video, and a Logitech webcam

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:39:51 -0000

@Daniel: Yes, thats exactly what I have. The lightning seems sufficient, but its not like I've tried to use the webcam in the dark or anything ;)

Re: Skype Video, and a Logitech webcam

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:31:41 -0000

@Daniel: its only pretty dark under the testing mode. I've Skype chatted with others, and its just fine. The problem is with Skype, as opposed as to the camera - I believe they'll fix it when its a non-beta release

Re: How to spoil your day

Colin Charles — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:10:10 -0000

Too late Don. Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

And dmesg has filled it up with relevant IO errors, to make it useless.

No soldiering on this time (being a server and all, with limited access). Sigh

Re: Zimbra claims ZCS 5.0 issues are the fault of CentOS

Colin Charles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:29:43 -0000

Thanks Jeff. Can't wait till April then. Being the 2nd LTS release, it'll be really interesting to see how Canonical's efforts stack up to Red Hat's offerings

Re: Server buying experience

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:41:47 -0000

@Danny: Nope, you might consider CZone, but it might take 2 weeks to get the chassis.

@kamal, @Simon: Thanks! I'll look at Linode/Slicehost for small slices

Re: Books: Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Bob Allen, and a Lonely Planet

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:46:02 -0000

Glad I helped Pia. Read it yet? ;)

Re: CentOS, CentOSPlus, and MySQL versions shipping there

Colin Charles — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:36:49 -0000

Hi Johnny,

The tarballs themselves, aren't going to be available, not in the near future anyway.

The BitKeeper trees are MySQL. Enterprise and Community. Your version is a tag + some patches that are out of tree (as in not within that tag), so they are essentially *different*, no?

So, taking say, 5.0.54 and adding patches from bitkeeper, no matter what tag you pull it from, does not make it upstream 5.0.54, does it? Of course not, its now upstream + patches.

Thats what I was trying to explain, months ago...

Re: CentOS, CentOSPlus, and MySQL versions shipping there

Colin Charles — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:39:03 -0000

Hi Karanbir,

Its good to know there will be CentOS 5 packages available soon, in centosplus.

The MySQL Enterprise builds you provide, if based on an Enterprise tag, with no patches, will be exactly the same as what MySQL provides. The moment you add patches, naturally it is not the same any longer.

Is there a feature/capability comparison? No. There are changelogs online, but thats about it.

Re: CentOS, CentOSPlus, and MySQL versions shipping there

Colin Charles — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:36:35 -0000

Hmm, that is truly odd, that the tagged releases did not build on RHEL-4, seeing that we release packages for that very same platform. I'll put this down on my copious todo list to investigate, thanks for the information

Re: Managers and Leaders

Colin Charles — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:26:10 -0000

Don't see why not Andy. Yes, you will, in March :)

Re: Managers and Leaders

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:42:35 -0000

@Aubs: Back for LCA, and busy unpacking, I think we'll catch up in March.

Re: Dell warranty rocks

Colin Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:43:36 -0000

@Gen: Thanks

@lotso: Maybe there's a spate of bad luck there? 6 motherboards, and 3 broken LCD hinges in 3 years? Wow, thats amazing. So far, knocking wood here, the hardware has been OK for all the Dell's I've ordered. This spreads to even their projectors.

Re: Adventures in Eee PC land

Colin Charles — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:45:03 -0000

Agreed Hub, agreed. The choice of applications were not smart at all. I was however, impressed that on the desktop, they had some links to online applications (Wikipedia, Google Docs) - one wonders if the online desktop concept is coming into play, in the future.

Xandros is by far, a pretty bad Linux distribution. If ASUS were smart, they'd have gone Ubuntu, seeing that its easy to use, and well supported. If it were Ubuntu on the eeePC (and a not locked down version either), I'd have kept the OS, with no issues whatsoever.

eeedora does have its own set of quirks, that I'm sure I'll go through and fix, in due time. Its nice to be hacking on distro stuff again ;)

Re: Morning sessions at MySQL MiniConf

Colin Charles — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:05:07 -0000

Hi Jonathon,

As we spoke earlier, the whole slides mentioning them, don't contain say, your verbal cues - bitmap indexes for example, don't mention the fact that they aren't currently available yet. I didn't bother taking notes for what what was already in the slides, because I don't believe in repetition.

However, if everything is mentioned in the slides, some people will fail to listen to you, and just focus on reading your slides later, and its always good speaker skill, to present points in slide, and not be too verbose.

Notice, I didn't write notes for your other talk? I felt the slides were verbose enough, and your use of the whiteboard, disabled me from wanting to write notes anyway...

Re: Morning sessions at MySQL MiniConf

Colin Charles — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:24:14 -0000

Hi Arjen,

Of course slides are cues, and if one reads from line-to-line, you'd be wasting the attendees time (and yes, you probably need serious help).

But in todays world, you have conferences that are recorded as video (which sometimes doesn't get the slides in properly), or conferences that are recorded as audio (which you will want to refer to slides later), or at worse, conferences where you get some video, you can't see the slides, AND the useful/verbose slides WITH diagrams, get LOST.

Whole story slides, like what was available for the Youtube talk at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, was excellent. It was a pity that Paul Tuckfield had not enough time, and too much technical detail in the slides, that it ended pretty abruptly. The real pity however is that he had lost his set of slides! So now, all we have to live with are a video of him, talking about things, with however no slides (even visible from the video) :(

You want to give sparse slides? The only way you're going to get away with it, is if you're keynoting. A deck of 30 slides containing just random photos, in a technical talk, will make you lose your audience, real quick...

Oh, and a lot of people read slides from talks they don't attend, in the interest of learning something new. Not everyone can attend expensive conferences, but everyone wants to learn.

Non-verbose slides (or not having distributed slides, video, etc.) mean that people don't learn, as well as they should.

I'm sure you're not one for reducing the knowledge of the world?

Re: Memcache, keeping data in the handiest place: memory

Colin Charles — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:12:49 -0000

Erm, MySQL supports referential integrity, for a while now Simon. And saying its not a database, or reliable, is rather silly, no? Seeing that its probably the most widely used open source database out there (you know, Google, Yahoo!, etc.). I suggest taking a look at a sensible, newer release, in the MySQL 5 range (and if you're brave, the 5.1 RC)

Re: Memcache, keeping data in the handiest place: memory

Colin Charles — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:02:18 -0000

Haha, good point Simon. I think MySQL (the company) is still fixing mistakes of the past. We fixed a lot of complaints in 5.0, but said a bunch of silly things before. Give us another chance, it is after all 2008 :)

Re: Trying to reliably make MyISAM crash; Maria is sturdy as

Colin Charles — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:10:22 -0000

Aha! So thats how you did it in Heidelberg. Giuseppe and I didn't have enough time to chat with you to see what was going on, and I was in awe when I first saw it in Heidelberg :)

Kudos BTW to all work on Maria - it seems really reliable, and its crash-safe goodness, is simply amazing.

Highly excited I am, so I'll be playing with it a lot more and providing feedback

Re: OLPC, by Jim Gettys

Colin Charles — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:20:12 -0000

Hi Scott! Jim actually didn't manage to demo an OLPC live, but there are plenty of them floating around, and you'd hope that people are looking at it via osmosis!

Thanks for making such a useful feature :)

Re: MySQL, meets Sun

Colin Charles — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:08:54 -0000

Call transcript with Jonathan, Marten, etc.: http://seekingalpha.com/article/60411-sun-micro...

Re: When OpenDNS is unreachable

Colin Charles — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:25:08 -0000

@wahlau: who knows. Maybe it was a provider thing?

@david: a traceroute that should have worked, but didn't:
[-(~)> traceroute 208.67.219.60
traceroute to 208.67.219.60 (208.67.219.60), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.838 ms 3.553 ms 3.597 ms
2 r124-19-0-1.gwy.unwired.net.au (124.19.0.1) 91.918 ms 121.643 ms 141.543 ms
3 v2227-cr2.glb.mel.bbn.unwired.net.au (125.63.254.74) 181.648 ms 231.463 ms 251.492 ms
4 125.63.254.206 (125.63.254.206) 261.543 ms 321.827 ms 331.265 ms
5 203.94.152.85 (203.94.152.85) 342.128 ms 341.360 ms 342.026 ms
6 3821.Gi0.br1.cit190.uecomm.net.au (218.185.31.158) 342.249 ms 69.781 ms 139.717 ms
7 VLAN323.o3mlc76f05.optus.net.au (61.88.143.197) 179.970 ms 279.557 ms 309.477 ms
8 61.88.221.73 (61.88.221.73) 339.445 ms 360.216 ms 379.313 ms
9 203.208.192.201 (203.208.192.201) 409.340 ms 429.219 ms 449.179 ms
10 203.208.145.154 (203.208.145.154) 469.175 ms gi1-7.ccr01.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.221) 489.148 ms 203.208.145.154 (203.208.145.154) 538.985 ms
11 te4-3.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.241) 508.973 ms te3-3.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.61) 558.896 ms te4-3.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.241) 578.756 ms
12 te3-1.ccr02.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.185) 459.818 ms te3-1.mpd01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.181) 259.899 ms te4-1.mpd01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.30) 299.956 ms
13 te8-3.ccr02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.137) 349.710 ms te3-3.mpd01.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.133) 369.796 ms te8-3.ccr02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.137) 409.500 ms
14 te4-4.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.174) 659.608 ms vl3490.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.166) 639.628 ms 649.370 ms
15 38.104.140.46 (38.104.140.46) 429.308 ms 449.190 ms 469.133 ms
16 208.67.219.60 (208.67.219.60) 499.270 ms 528.946 ms 559.058 ms

And from the machine that worked (elsewhere, different route):
traceroute to 208.67.219.60 (208.67.219.60), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 202.190.174.2 (202.190.174.2) 7.176 ms 7.111 ms 7.078 ms
2 ge5-0.bkj90.jaring.my (161.142.173.90) 7.216 ms 7.304 ms 7.278 ms
3 POS3-0-2.gw3.KUL1.asianetcom.net (203.192.154.153) 7.252 ms 7.225 ms 7.266 ms
4 ip-202-147-48-214.asianetcom.net (202.147.48.214) 12.557 ms 12.531 ms 12.504 ms
5 po15-0-1.cr2.nrt1.asianetcom.net (202.147.32.94) 95.057 ms 95.036 ms 95.075 ms
6 ip-202-147-0-166.asianetcom.net (202.147.0.166) 232.267 ms 231.412 ms 232.718 ms
7 gi1-20.mpd01.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.53) 234.511 ms 226.900 ms 228.430 ms
8 vl3491.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.141) 220.168 ms vl3492.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.9) 228.323 ms vl3491.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.141) 220.194 ms
9 te4-1.mpd01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.30) 221.176 ms te4-1.ccr02.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.69) 233.340 ms te3-1.ccr02.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.185) 221.118 ms
10 te9-3.mpd01.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.53) 222.604 ms te3-3.ccr02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.125) 217.566 ms te9-3.mpd01.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.53) 222.552 ms
11 vl3490.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.166) 222.521 ms te4-4.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.174) 221.970 ms vl3490.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.166) 222.465 ms
12 38.104.140.46 (38.104.140.46) 230.831 ms 222.115 ms 225.672 ms
13 208.67.219.60 (208.67.219.60) 225.043 ms 225.017 ms 225.102 ms

Hope this helps!

Re: Either CPL or HP, suck…

Colin Charles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:01:26 -0000

Thanks @aussieaubs, @craig.

I called HP up. I scanned my invoice and sent it on its way. I'm waiting for them to send me a form via email, which I have to print (see the irony?) and take back to CPL so that CPL can give me an exchange. I'm now just waiting for the form...

@l3v1: They're cheaper products now, guaranteed. And the term "quality" is surely going down... I just didn't expect it to not work within 24-hours...

@Dennis: When I get a new unit, I'll be sure to write more about it...

Re: FriendFeed is Mugshot, with community

Colin Charles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:58:06 -0000

FriendFeed is just another aggregator... I like my Mugshot client, and thats the winning point for me. Pity Red Hat isn't really brining it to market...

Re: Malaysian Prime Minister gets feedback via the Internet (and isn’t OSS friendly)

Colin Charles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:59:43 -0000

@piju: thanks

@biatch0: funny as always ;)

@wk woon/doubleukay: How can the OSS industry not be government friendly? We're always willing to help, and work alongside many folk, all the time. Pity, its not only the microsite, but other important sites too...

Site is up now. Well, look at the screenshot :)

@Nik faris: ta.

Re: Lots of database talk at Sun Tech Days

Colin Charles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:44:01 -0000

Sigh. Its surprising that hotels here can't provide Internet access, when about 2 years ago, I was in Cambodia, and there was wifi, with a fat pipe to the Internet, at pretty much every hotel

Re: Malaysiakini, open for free reading

Colin Charles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:14:55 -0000

Not accessible on election night? Read this: http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/03/08...

Re: DTrace, Web 2.0, Java, AJAX, PHP and the rest

Colin Charles — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:51:26 -0000

The link works fine, try again. I think blogs.sun.com was down for a while earlier.

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:48:41 -0000

@Halibullah: I will not apologise, because this is the truth. I know of many that have gone overseas, who dread to come back to Malaysia. They come back, to serve their bonds. And if you think UMNO has championed these attitudes where people don't drink, gamble, et al I challenge you to take a visit to a night club in Malaysia, or a trip up to Genting Highlands. The night club option in KL is probably the easiest - if you need help, I can name a few.

The change came from people opening their eyes, and not just blindly listening to what UMNO/BN had to say.

@Russell: Yup, politics and free software. It seems most free software people have political opinions! Apology mainly because folk might actually be bored about reading on a topic, I don't usually talk about... I've thought about starting a political only blog, but feel that it will be largely deserted

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:39:31 -0000

Halibullah, for someone thats in Qatar, you seem to think that I'm disconnected? I'll let you know (and if you were a regular reader of this blog, which you clearly are not, you would know) that I spend about half my year in Malaysia. I feel the "heart beat on the ground", as you may say.

"Pray tell me who are those @@@@@ Malay that you are referring to?" - if you were "on the ground", please head to Jln Sultan Ismail, or Jln Doraisamy at night. Heck, go to Bangsar before 12.30am on a weekend - the JAIS officers are usually hanging around, waiting for folk they can then put away in trucks and charge for something

I will not judge a single Muslim that wishes to exercise his or her right to freedoms to not "obey" the tenets forced down his or her throat. If he or she wants to eat pork, that is perfectly ok. If he or she wants drink, why stop it? If he or she wants to "marry out" of his or her current religion, then so be it. If he or she wishes to be intimate with the opposite sex, the idea of "khalwat" is wrong. This is what freedoms of religion are meant to be about (not having two separate laws, syariah and federal).

So yes, I defend the integrity of *malaysians*. I don't even believe in race profiling because its completely and utterly stupid. Its the BN way, and its going away (I hope).

Gone hopefully are the days of "body snatching" (i.e. snatching bodies for burial after death, for people that "apparently" converted).

Note how I referred to the "good life" and never made any "disgusting" remark? If you feel disgusted by it, then you're disgusted by the truth. And if you can't face the truth, I feel sorry for you.

I think this should *end* the comments here. If you feel so inclined, you can just start your own blog and rant. Don't pollute my comments stream with more crap.

Thanks.

P/S: Go to certain clubs, especially on Jln. Doraisamy on a Sunday evening/night. Tell me what you see. While you're at it, maybe keep the JAIS phone number handy so you can prevent "disgusting acts" from happening.

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:44:26 -0000

Russell, "they are all taught to think and started enjoying the good life". Balancing between thinking and enjoying the "good life" (i.e. a life you never knew before existed - like holding hands in public, not covering yourself from head to tow, being able to drink alcohol, enjoying a McDonalds breakfast meal with bacon in it, etc.) is what I'm referring to. Thinkers also take breaks. Arguably, all smart people that attend Linux conferences also let their hair down and drink (sometimes, maybe a little too much as we've seen in the past).

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:04:46 -0000

Russell,

OK, the 6 months is a bit of a fib... I spend about 6 months in Melbourne too :) So its in between all this time, I do travel elsewhere as well

I shall however, in my spare time, write about Australian culture :)

Kind regards

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:27:36 -0000

Halibullah,

Arguing as to who spends more time in Malaysia is pointless. For all we know, both you and I spend more time in Malaysia, then the Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi.

I'm glad you finally realise that there are many other things to do than to throw silly remarks and ask for apologies when there are no expletives thrown.

What is a @@@Malay?

High life? Well, Selangor and Wilayah went to the opposition. Those are the high life areas, so to speak of, no?

I never said *all* Malay Muslims do any of the above. Notice how I focused on those that have been out of the country to see something else? To go away from the clutches of UMNO rule, and now, the much thrown around statement of "Islam Hadhiri".

Looking at statistics, from the voter turnout, it looks like those that significantly brought about change were the Chinese and Indians, who are tired of being called just that, and are after being called Malaysians. It seems that the BN was hoping for a better turnout, but the Malays performed an act of silent protest, providing poor voter turnout.

Anyway, its good that I will not be hearing from you again. Its been a "pleasure" dealing with you, and now I can get back to more significant things in life, that don't involve talking to a "katak dibawah tempurung".

P/S: I'm sure you are a pious person, who obeys rules, and doesn't do anything blasphemous. Oh wait, you're in Qatar, its just a bit hard to do that there, right?

Re: Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections

Colin Charles — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:37:57 -0000

Oh, I just remembered a question I had and maybe your goodself can answer this. TGIF restaurants, popular, yes? Lots of food there is served with Jack Daniels sauce (i.e. they make use of the Jack Daniels liquor in the food, and to make the sauce). These same pans are probably used to make other dishes.

Is TGIF a halal restaurant? I didn't manage to find a sticker on it anywhere.

Don't forget, they serve alcohol too... TGIF can't be the "high life" living, can it?

Reading this: http://www.jeffooi.com/2006/12/christmas_turkey... was refreshing, quite naturally

Re: Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird

Colin Charles — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:26 -0000

@cos: iCal Server is most definitely to blame and isn't standard... I remember this from actually looking at it closely the last WWDC I attended (2006 I think). But I do hope that the Thunderbird 3 folk look closely to ensure that iCal Server and Thunderbird 3 just work

@Gen: Thanks for the links, I know Mozilla Messaging, because Marten Mickos is also on the board of directors ;) When can we be expected to see the magic of Thunderbird 3? I can't hardly wait...

Re: Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird

Colin Charles — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:49:56 -0000

@danny: no, read, and write access :)

Re: Consumer hardware shipping too many Linuxes by default

Colin Charles — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:43:09 -0000

@TimC: The Windows advantage is that it just looks like one, and it just works as one. There is nothing confusing about it.

OS X prides itself as being dead easy to use. It probably is. And you tend to not get stuck if you're a first time buyer - Apple has all these smart introductory classes to get you started (buy a mac, its free).

Its not about identical tastes. Even in Windows land, there are "tweakers" and tinkerers, wanting to have more power to do other things...

The many Linuxes out there are just simply confusing to the end user, IMHO. And the support curve goes up even higher, when there are so many different Linuxes out in the market

Re: Consumer hardware shipping too many Linuxes by default

Colin Charles — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:44:58 -0000

@KwangErn: Agreed, wholeheartedly.

Taste is nice, and choice is nice, but it adds complexity. In OS X, there's just Aqua. On Windows there's Aero (or Classic). On Linux, wow, the list just goes on ;)

Re: Consumer hardware shipping too many Linuxes by default

Colin Charles — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:12:22 -0000

Hi James.

The pressure to standardise has always been around. Even in filesystem hierarchy, there's been the Linux Standards Base. I dare say, the LSB has largely still been not as successful as it had set out to be.

Things are being worked on, but might it be too late? Linux is hitting *mainstream* consumer hardware. People buying EeePC's aren't just Linux fans and bigots any longer. They're regular consumers.

They don't want to futz with things. They want it to just work. And if they go on to buying a Shuttle KPC, they want it to work similarly ("Huh? Doesn't all Linux just work the same?"). You get the drift...

Red Hat tried shipping with a "standard" themed desktop environment. BlueCurve, back in the RHL8 days. Remember that? However, the desktop itself wasn't standard...

Re: MacBook::Impressions

Colin Charles — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:03:47 -0000

Thanks cos, after enough complaining, there is a working link that doesn't take me to Sun's download site.

Hmm, yeah. So the MacBook Pro's are still coming with Keynote, et al? Interesting.

Re: X11 in Leopard is broken (does not do full screen)

Colin Charles — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:02:51 -0000

Yes, I'll play with NeoOffice/J soon. But do realise that NeoOffice/J is actually a fork, of OpenOffice.org. Not necessarily a bad fork, but a fork nonetheless. I'd rather focus my energies on the upstream Aqua-fication (something I participated in, about 4 years ago)...

Once the upstream OpenOffice.org Aqua is ready, I don't see much use/need for NeoOffice/J.

Re: The Economist on Malaysia

Colin Charles — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:50:15 -0000

Hi Danny!

Do they have a website?

Is it an international magazine?

Thanks

Re: The Eee gets a memory boost

Colin Charles — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:41:54 -0000

Hey Andy!

Well, I'll be moving to Malaysia come the end of the month. Not be able to see you this weekend, but i'm sure after that we should be able to say g'day :)

Will catch up with you soon, I'm sure!

Re: Time Machine best backup option on Leopard?

Colin Charles — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:20:33 -0000

Thanks Peter! I'll just use Time Machine and hopefully, never have to worry about running out of space on the 320gb disk...

Re: On Twitter

Colin Charles — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:41:39 -0000

bytebot, on twitter...

Re: Selenium at the MyOSS meetup

Colin Charles — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:47:04 -0000

Hi! thanks again for giving the talk! I hope that your next talk will be on Flex, which you also seem to be enthusiastic about. And i hear there are Linux authoring tools, so that would seriously rock

Re: The traveller’s tale

Colin Charles — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:18:38 -0000

@aubs: erm, google for a targus rakgear. i have no time to take photos... but yes, will tell you if there's a flickr.com special. its so cheap though - $25/yr!

Re: 10 Thunderbird add-ons I can’t live without

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:30:30 -0000

@simos: but is it still required? Some say, the biff mode in Thunderbird 2 works.

@andy: I write to gcal just fine... Did you login?

Re: 10 Thunderbird add-ons I can’t live without

Colin Charles — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:47:05 -0000

Yes, the provider is very important. But I doubt you could link to the calendar without the provider. As I blogged earlier, you definitely want to read the GDATA_Provider document on the wiki... the documentation itself is indispensable.

Re: MySQL Community Dinner a great success

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:14:54 -0000

Hi Ronald!

Thanks for uploading the photos. Its of course much appreciated :)

Re: Compiling MySQL UDFs on Mac OS X

Colin Charles — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:19:38 -0000

Hi Bejamin!

Thanks. It looks like bundle_loader makes things much better :)

Quick testing on a few UDFs I had handy:
g++ -Wall -bundle -bundle_loader /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld -o udf_return_values.so `/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --cflags` udf_return_values.c

Re: Compiling MySQL UDFs on Mac OS X

Colin Charles — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:18 -0000

When time permits, must figure out why using g++ generates a "bigger" .so over using gcc (it really shouldn't make a difference)

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8616 Apr 14 09:16 /usr/local/mysql/lib/udf_return_values.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ccharles staff 8568 Apr 14 09:25 udf_return_values.so*

8616 (g++) vs 8568 (gcc)

Re: My favourite bugfix in MySQL 5.1.24-rc

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:15:19 -0000

Hi Shawn!

5.1.24-rc should be out already, or soon... Happy ctrl+r'ing.

Re: Chris Blizzard on Mozilla

Colin Charles — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:35:59 -0000

Hey Chris!

Yeah, I know, the notes were taken before we talked :) It would make sense to see things on Series 60, but one wonders how long more this will be around as a platform that Nokia themselves want to use?

The embedding gap with WebKit will be useful. I like the explanation you gave on memory usage and the myths behind it ;)

I think to clarify the tragetting developers vs. users, Firefox/Thunderbird definitely targets users and its ease of use...

BTW, if you posted up your slides, the notes would be a lot more "coherent", as I wrote them up as there were slides (while you were talking)

Hope you had a good flight home, and we definitely should talk more about Fennec and the mobile web. The mobile web, is generally *very hot* in Asia-Pacific (in fact, if you take your cues from Japan, or Hong Kong, it realistically is the web nowadays)

Re: Winners for 2008 at the MySQL Conference

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:25:16 -0000

I'll have to get to this soon. I'll be sure to blog it as it happens though... sorry for the delay

Re: Ahead in the Cloud by Werner Vogels

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:14:00 -0000

Hey Werner, sorry for the typo! This was clearly me, not typing clearly. Much apologies! I've fixed it now... Sorry again!

Re: What MySQL Can Learn from PostgreSQL

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:39:52 -0000

Hi!

Sorry for the late(ish) response.

All:
Remember, these notes were taken *verbatim* from the talk. They were my feelings. They're what one might consider a transcript. There is unfortunately no recording of the talk...

Joshua:
1. No worries with regards to EnterpriseDB...
2. Honest you were, but the tone was pretty confrontational. Let us not speculate as to why he brought up the problem, irrespective if Sun was in the room or not.

Thanks for linking to the rest of your blog posts. You also mention that you spoke with Marten Mickos quite a bit, and he's supported having your talk. Note that I do not say having your talk was bad, or anything, I just clearly write notes from it...

William:
The process is being opened up, its just facing what I'd like to refer to as, growing pains.

Joshua:
Monty's talk highlighted all of our growing pains.

Mark:
There is no ETA. The plan is the plan, until there is a new plan? We all want changes, but we have to go through step-by-step refinement.

The CLA is unfortunately still around. We are looking into the SCA soon. Curiously, why can't someone from a big company sign the SCA? Novell for example, I know have signed the SCA for OpenOffice.org contributions.

Community branch is something as you know we've been trying to work out for a while. I think once we've fixed our release policy, we can focus on accepting patches, say like the HEAP tables patch and other great patches that you yourself have.

Josh Berkus:
Congratulations on patching PostgreSQL and providing core level patches in under-2 weeks :)

If someone is unhappy with MySQL support, they're also not a slave to Sun. There are numerous firms out there that are the EnterpriseDB/CommandPrompt equivalents in the MySQL ecosystem.

Re: Beijing Sun-MySQL World Tour

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:24:35 -0000

Hi Jonathan, sorry we didn't get to see you.

Hi Melanie, it was great meeting with you in Beijing! Hope to see you more, while I make trips there :)

Re: Beijing Sun-MySQL World Tour

Colin Charles — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:55 -0000

Hi Fred!

Sorry to hear that you didn't get to come or even know about it. I'll be sure to email the organisers to ensure this doesn't happen again...

And yes, read my blog... or follow my travel on dopplr :)

Re: Facebook does Instant Messanging (IM)

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:19:41 -0000

Hi Claudine!

I guess the whole idea of Facebook chat is to "lock you into Facebook.com". Why? They can sell you ads. Bombard you with notifications. And keep the "mindshare" within the site itself... More eyeballs, the better, right?

While you and I might not feel this is cool stuff, in theory, the kids of today, might find this much better than other forms of IM...

Jabber? Thats still very much limited to "geeks". Even with GTalk, I seem to have more people on AIM/MSN/Yahoo!

Re: Contributing to the MySQL User Guide

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:15:44 -0000

Hi Frank and Aubrey

Good to note that you'll find all these resources useful :)

Happy contributing!

Re: OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia – thumbs up!

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:17:27 -0000

Hi Chris, Roy,

This is great news indeed. Now to hope it just goes further and further... First the governments, then the industries...

Re: Appalling journalism that is iTWire

Colin Charles — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:33:04 -0000

Hey Pia!

You're right, re: accountability. I've noticed some "critical" articles, that generally seem to be somewhat senseless...

I never saw what came out on April 1, and I guess am thankful...

Tell Jeff to hang in there, he keeps on getting slammed every once in a while, which really sucks :(

Nothing we can do about all this. But I for one, am going to find a better news site to visit, iTWire is generally becoming crap... And if our local newspapers decide to syndicate content from there, maybe again, not reading might help

Re: Appalling journalism that is iTWire

Colin Charles — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:08:10 -0000

Hi Russell.

I didn't propose "forking" via changing the DNS name.

Something like planetgnome.org can exist. Getting people there? Well, if enough people blog about it, soon that will become the point of interest... Listing it in appropriate indexes (planetplanet.org), should also help. If one is determined, and it provides better value, it surely cannot be hard (its how all websites in general, get popular, no?)

Also, keep in mind that GNOME DNS is run by the gnome sys admin team... In theory, with consensus from the board, they can move things if required.

Re: Stewart and I on LugRadio

Colin Charles — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:58 -0000

Hi Stuart!

Malaysia was a British colony even :P Happy upcoming Labour Day :)

Keep up the good work with the show, and amazing conference (even though I could only make the first day... other commitments on Sunday)

Re: Playing with MySQL’s Online Backup

Colin Charles — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:23:48 -0000

Aubs,

6.0.4/6.0.5 is all alpha previews. Watch:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/6.0.html

I expect 6.0.5 binaries to be out in a few weeks at most...

When will 6 be GA? That is much further down the line, as we should immediately focus on getting 5.1 out of the door.

Re: Sun xVM VirtualBox is released!

Colin Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:13:39 -0000

Hi Eric!

Good to note that you can now save money :)

With regards to virtualization, a certain large whale in the database market, has certified their stack in a virtualized platform. Xen seems to be all the rage...

There's Xen, KVM/Qemu, VMware, and now VirtualBox and xVM... While I do understand the I/O issues you mention, maybe virtualization works well for shared hosting environments? Beats me, I think we need to study it carefully...

I wish I had some more time, and if I do, I'll be sure to "slap"[1] mysql inside a virtualised environment just to see what kind of use case scenarios it can be used for.

Also, keep in mind that mysql has traditionally always been scale out... Sun's got lots of cool hardware that does scale up (CMT chips for instance). There must be some "middle ground" or use cases...

kind regards

[1] - slap, via mysqlslap... and other benchmarking tools, I'm sure

Re: Some highlights from the Summer of Code

Colin Charles — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:57:22 -0000

Hi Sebastian!

Sorry for the typo, its been fixed

Re: Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?

Colin Charles — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:27:38 -0000

Hi anonymous!

I was hoping someone had a solution that didn't involve me reading a man page and actually futzing with options...

Re: Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?

Colin Charles — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:37:32 -0000

@kjusupov: The tunnel itself is no problem... that can be done. its the ipfw part, which I can do easily in iptables, but am wondering how to do so in ipfw...

Re: Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?

Colin Charles — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:38:34 -0000

Thanks James and Matt. I am seriously looking at the Air because its lightweight, and it runs OS X... good for laptop use. I'm tired of suspend/resume woes, non-working wireless on occasion, and the presentation hell of various projectors.

Re: Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?

Colin Charles — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:35:37 -0000

@kjusupov: It can be done, if you configure your mail client to point to localhost:1234 (for example), and then do an SSH forward. This implies that you will always have to start up an SSH tunnel to collect mail, even when you're on say, wired Ethernet

HTTP? Easy. ssh -D is your friend. I've blogged about this before... SOCKS proxy works like a charm.

Its just rewriting instances of mail.some.server to localhost:port, because I don't want to change the settings in the mail client everytime..

Re: KL, the land of watered down beer

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:32:31 -0000

Ah, so RM4 more per pint... for watered down beer.

Well, I was eager to get a bottle opened up for a comparison taste test... maybe the next time I'm back in a couple of weeks.

Have you found good Hoegaarden, justine?

Re: KL, the land of watered down beer

Colin Charles — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:59:23 -0000

@aussieaubs: I am in Melbourne... The Belgian is about 0.5hr walk from my place...

@ruben: Ah yes, membership card. The waiter did also mention that we could get one (but I thought what the heck, I'm probably never going there again... water in beer = bad). Hence reaching for your friends one

@justine: You work at Finnegans? Well, c'mon, invite us boozers to have happy hour Kilkenny's :) I used to drink this at a club, but usually, they don't have it on tap unless its on promotion (which is almost, never nowadays)

Re: KL, the land of watered down beer

Colin Charles — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:39:55 -0000

wahlau! Long time no chat. Coming to Germany to drink beer is not economical... Got to drink beer in the locale I'm in at the moment... Like today? Melbourne beer :)

Re: Lazyweb: Editing MP4 .AVI’s on a Mac?

Colin Charles — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:35:43 -0000

Hi Cris!

Nope, renaming it doesn't help. In fact, renaming it means that QuickTime stops opening it... Odd

Re: Dell Mini Inspiron? New Asus EeePC’s? Its the keyboard, silly

Colin Charles — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:11:27 -0000

All, also make sure you keep track of HP's offering, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC:
http://h40059.www4.hp.com/hp2133/

A review (albeit mostly non-technical) is: http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2008/06/new_la...
Go there for the live pictures of the unit...

Re: Dell Mini Inspiron? New Asus EeePC’s? Its the keyboard, silly

Colin Charles — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:19:21 -0000

And for those following the HP offering, I replied to Kenny Sia, to ask him some questions (why do I get the feeling he will not respond? His blog is filled with mostly, crap comments!)

Begin:

Kenny,

Did you get the version with 2GB of RAM, the 6-cell LiIon battery, and well, Windows Vista?

No mention of what the thing cost you, so it would be interesting to see the price differential for Linux vs. Windows (configuration differential too).

Is the HP easily modifiable? I.e. can I replace the RAM myself?

I presume there is no fan/cooling unit? The Via CPU's are quite cool...

Keyboard good? 92% real size? That makes a lot of sense... Most important part of the laptop. Along with the screen... WXGA, so is it really 1366x768 resolution?

Well, if you're interested, look forward to the Dell Mini Inspiron: http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/06/03...

Kind Regards

As an aside, Allen Pais told me about this (reminded me again, its been at the back of my head for a few weeks): http://twitter.com/bytebot/statuses/826805649
@allenpais: HP 2133 is sensible... from what i hear, good keyboard. battery life? using hdd = smart. less ram, less battery on linux? silly

He suggests it should be selling in Kuala Lumpur now (its June), for a measly RM2,299 (http://twitter.com/allenpais/statuses/824475921)

Kudos

Re: Dell Mini Inspiron? New Asus EeePC’s? Its the keyboard, silly

Colin Charles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:43:40 -0000

James, a regular commenter here, had his comment eaten up (oops!). Here's his message:

Hi,

My comment got eaten it seems, it had a link to
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14816 which is technical and
answers your questions: the RAM is replaceable, it has a small fan, the
screen is 1280x800, the keyboard is great, the touchpad not so much. The
main complaint is the CPU isn't that great, but there will probably an
Atom or Nano version out fairly soon.

Looking at my wholesaler, the top-end models are available in Australia
now, RRP $899 buys you 1.2GHz Via w/1GB RAM, a 120GB 5400rpm HDD and
Vista Business. Another $100 gets 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM and 160GB 5400rpm HDD.
No sign of the Linux models on the HP Australia website either, only on
the US site:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/3...

Re: Checking in photography equipment?

Colin Charles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:05:17 -0000

@Lotso: No, its a Sigma 30/1.4. And I know the 50/1.4 canon isn't a L lens. I just have a preference to L lenses, if they do exist in the size I'm after. BTW, tried the 50/1.2, cannot justify the extra cost for the extra stop. (and I hate the feeling of going to the store to want to buy it and returning home empty handed).

Only benefit? Same filter size as the other L lenses.

Do I really care? Nope, since I have an investment in filters for the 50mm anyway (I use them for colour infrared)

@Hub, Gen: Yes, it seems like the only way is to hand carry stuff, and fly lighter. Or just not take gear to the US...

Re: On whoring oneself

Colin Charles — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:47:30 -0000

@Russell: Great, whore was used in the context of camwhore... and for many a definition, its up there as a pingback

Sorry, your comment was caught in the spam pool, and had to be manually marked as "good"

Re: On fuel subsidies, and earning/spending power

Colin Charles — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:37:46 -0000

@andy: software developers in China for example, are earning more than their counterparts in Malaysia. Cost of living has risen so much in China in the last few years (keep in mind I lived there for a period of time from 2004-2005)... Bubble? ;-)

In Beijing, bicycles and public transport is still pretty rampant. Sure there are cars, but there are also the nouveau riche!

Re: MySQL Rocks: Wen Huang, in Makati City, Philippines

Colin Charles — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:10:22 -0000

Thanks for the email address Tara. I'll be sure to give it more attention :)

Kind Regards

Re: Spacewalk, and what we can learn about naming

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:55:02 -0000

Whoops. From the FAQ, it seemed like Java was being worked on, Perl maintained, no mention of python: "All new web development is done in Java and the Perl is only maintained."

I'm happy to be corrected, so if the FAQ is updated, I'll be sure to update the post!

Re: One Buck Short on Channel V AMP!

Colin Charles — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:54:00 -0000

nazroll: Imran, the drummer, is a friend from school days... So naturally, I'd take an interest in the band :)

Re: Malaysia slugs credit card users who don’t pay up

Colin Charles — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:30:35 -0000

Hi Mikal!

Heh, like a charge card then... Well, my ANZ and Commbank cards are still "real" credit cards. Oh well, doesn't really bother me, but seeing that people are putting their lives on credit, I wonder what this will do to people's debt, and how quickly people may end up reaching the road to being a bankrupt.

I've firmly believed that a credit card should be treated no different than a charge card (like AMEX, or Diners), from a consumer perspective. Spend what you can, and pay it off in full. Credit card debt, after all, is bad debt.

Re: Malaysia slugs credit card users who don’t pay up

Colin Charles — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:49:02 -0000

Hi wahlau!

Yup, so you're in that 1/3rd bracket they seem to talk about :)

In the meantime, as of last year, 2/3rds are not in the bracket, and I wouldn't be surprised that with the rising cost of living, that also rises.

Re: Malaysia slugs credit card users who don’t pay up

Colin Charles — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:21:35 -0000

And then, there was unhappiness:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008...

@wahlau: ah, the fated balance transfer scheme... See plenty of ads for it in the papers. Pity that it all leads to greater debt

Re: Malaysia slugs credit card users who don’t pay up

Colin Charles — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:13:52 -0000

Yet another story:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008...

“Without the grace period, there is no difference between using a credit card and paying cash,” he said.

He added that if the system continued this way, people would be discouraged from using credit cards.

Anyone for an amex? :)

Re: Skype says: mounting failed

Colin Charles — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:14:44 -0000

This seems to have been fixed, so all is well now...

Re: Skype says: mounting failed

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:55:37 -0000

Alethea,

I just downloaded it, and now it seems to have a sane md5 and all seems to work. I don't know if the downloads are broken again...

Re: MySQL 5.1.26-rc released, and developer resources thoughts

Colin Charles — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:57:13 -0000

Hi Mark!

I have word that the patch is being reviewed, and if its safe for 5.1, it will be included. Will it show up in GA, I'm unsure, but its definitely slated to go into 5.1 (as opposed to 6.0 like we thought before). Sergei is looking into this.

Hope this helps!

Re: Drizzle… seeing sun through the clouds

Colin Charles — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:55:58 -0000

Slip of the keyboard... noting... nothing... such is life. Thanks for pointing it out Anne. And no, no hard feelings to Sheeri either

Re: WTD: Ticket to Microsoft Tech.Ed SEA 2008

Colin Charles — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:14:54 -0000

What, "Dear" doesn't count?

No, I will not grovel, AlphaG. Most of the content there is fluff, and going by what @ditesh said (http://twitter.com/ditesh/statuses/877013996):
@bytebot: Based on last year's experience, it was a massive epic fail. I left when I realized I knew more then them about MS products.

So no, I will not pony up money for something I think is going to be mostly a waste of time. However, I am willing to be impressed (i.e. I'm going there with an open mind)

Surely, you've found better ways of spending a thousand ringgit, right? Think of all the beer you can buy...

Re: Some notes: Joomla! Day Malaysia 2008

Colin Charles — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:46:41 -0000

Shaifful,

http://www.aidi-ahmi.com/index.php?option=com_r...

Go to slide 4, you mention on bullet 5, "Optimize MySQL database (joomla database)". Guess what? I was making you look *smarter*. You can actually optimize your database, by optimizing tables within it (so the joomla database or the jos_prefix as you describe, you run say the event scheduler to do it on a per table basis)

Read more at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optimize...

Your comments look like they come from two different people, or someone suffering from schizophrenia. The first one suggests you would like to thank me for corrections, the second one suggests "after all the MySQL guy too did not say anything about me too". If you recall, "The MySQL Guy" went up to the question mike, and had a long list of paper, writing thoughts, and telling you what could be improved. The audience, ended up CLAPPING after that.

You want to *threaten* me with your video evidence? Haha. How about this. I put it to you that you UPLOAD the video to Google Video/YouTube, and ask people to endure the thirty or so minutes of your speech.

And no, I don't record things on tape. But maybe I should have. Because after reading this message, and replying, I'd think to myself, "Why so serious? I should put a smile on that face" <cue to="to" some="some" maniacal="maniacal" laugh="laugh"> :)

Looking forward to your reply.</cue>

Re: i can’t smile without you

Colin Charles — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:39:55 -0000

But I heard wall-e, have a Mac startup sound. the chime!

Re: i can’t smile without you

Colin Charles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:14:33 -0000

Haha Ruben, trust you to come up with great comments about top gear... How many episodes did you see today? *grin*

Re: i can’t smile without you

Colin Charles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:36:24 -0000

Its more a refusal, rather than not knowing. Enjoy twat gear today :)

Re: ramblings

Colin Charles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:38:46 -0000

Lots of people ask for experts to come reset the router. They pay them RM80 and are done with it. Sad truth of life, but it happens.

Eh, Mariah Carey... Touch my body... Duh!

So yes, lots of people get things done for them. Its a function of how much you're willing to spend. Lets say every minute of your time is worth RM1. By that measurement, spending 30 minutes changing a tyre, is a waste of RM30. Now, if you called AAM, you can spend time on your laptop, doing work that's worth RM30, and now someone else will fix this problem for you, while you wait.

Everything, is a function of time. And money... Would you spend 0.5hr cooking to save RM30, or go out and spend less for a meal? Choices are easy.

BTW, its a "whale" not a "wail".

Re: Malaysia Today Mirror

Colin Charles — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:39:34 -0000

Yes, ST, you are right. Hence the N/B at the bottom. More people are likely to search for IP or mirror, as opposed to alternate URL... I used the word and felt dirty, but the aim is to hope others continue getting their feed of RPK if they like reading him

Of course, its lunch hour now, and a little quick check, and it does seem to be interesting:
lovegood:~ byte$ host 72.47.236.85
85.236.47.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer malaysia-today.net.
lovegood:~ byte$ host 202.75.62.114
114.62.75.202.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer granny.md.com.my.

The first host is mt.harapanmalaysia.com

So maybe there's some mirroring going on, with replication of data elsewhere? I don't know. Maybe someone can ask RPK himself...

Re: sky of love

Colin Charles — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:22:51 -0000

Definitely wasn't a red-eye... Must've been to America. It was a long flight and I'd run out of movies to see, so its nothing like discovering those foreign language ones :)

Re: One

Colin Charles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:38:16 -0000

Hmm, doesn't ring a bell. Isn't etched in memory, or maybe I haven't seen it... Will give it a twirl when time permits. Thanks Allen

Re: Happy 25th GNU

Colin Charles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:36:16 -0000

What about suspend/resume? Video tends to fail upon resume, which can be annoying. 3D is pretty important, also... Urm, external displays? Another thing that sometimes fails without blobs.

Then again, I don't buy any hardware with nvidia chipsets... The old adage of stick with Intel is etched in my head (even then, sometimes, it fails...) Such is life

Re: Recycling, it must be done

Colin Charles — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:04:48 -0000

@Danny: Considering there's not much cooking, the earthworm compost won't work for me... But its a good idea!

@kaeru: Certainly not seen anything like that in PJ (or Klang). Running to Subang to get rid of my trash is of course, further than I'm willing to go!

@rick: It should all be fine now

@aussieaubs: Hmm, then why do we separate the glass? Seems like a waste of effort all round then!

Re: maybank2u 2.0

Colin Charles — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:41:13 -0000

heh, no worries. our table didn't know the blogger crowd at all :)

Re: maybank2u 2.0

Colin Charles — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:07:05 -0000

ditto :)

Re: Eradicate the ISA?

Colin Charles — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:11:01 -0000

Nice badge :) Spread it!

Re: Software Freedom Day in Riga: Superstars galore

Colin Charles — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:42:55 -0000

Wishing you were here too?

Your colleague Mark came along... How's work on external SP going? I spoke with Eric, and I believe there's going to be great progress by the time of UC2009... Hope we catch up then

Re: Workbench on Linux

Colin Charles — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:27:04 -0000

Yes, gcc 4.3 is stricter, and there are some fixes. I have a preliminary patch that works against Fedora 9, currently I'm just stuck with one thing that I can't get fixed, so waiting till I fix that and will publish the patch

Another problem with an RPM spec file is cairo... Cairo in Fedora 9 isn't built with glitz enabled by default. Cairo needs rebuilding, which I'll have to speak with the cairo maintainer to see if it makes sense... (glitz = marked experimental)

And if you look at configure.in, there are options to build a "standard edition" and an "oss edition". Its unclear what the future path is in terms of what sources we will build from. The standard edition costs $, so surely it can't just be a build-time option.

Re: workbench-5.1.1-alpha on Fedora 9

Colin Charles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:42:54 -0000

. There is no copy paste scenario, you're expected to use either one of the include files that are missing.

Now, with the second post, I made a tiny boo boo (make note to self: don't write technical blog posts when in a semi-drunken and tired state)

You want to do:
export PKGCONFIG_PATH= instead of export PATH.

Sorry, I fixed the blog post

Re: workbench-5.1.1-alpha on Fedora 9

Colin Charles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:01:01 -0000

Hi!

Well, it shouldn't have to be on a Wiki - this stuff should just work. Its cluttered up on a weblog, because its still in alpha and well, doesn't work as well yet :P

Compiling WB from source does not require you to have mysql-gui-tools. They're independent.

Now, I'm in a rock and a hard place. 5.1.1-alpha is well, mostly outdated by today's standards. We've hacked on the tree much, and I've sent in a few patches to ensure more goodness with gcc-4.3. However, the source tree is *drumroll* internal only.

The workbench team is working on how to start sharing this code, as soon as possible. Its a priority to get it on Launchpad at some stage.

I wish I can give you more concrete answers, but there's no point in me promising something that I have no ability to deliver on (I'm not involved in the process)

Hope this helps... Watch the workbench blog as well as mine if you're interested in the future, post-alpha

Thanks for trying the software (or trying to) as well

Re: Switcher Guides

Colin Charles — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:27:33 -0000

Hi!

I do agree, apache2 on Ubuntu is a lot more complete... I especially like a2enmod (though I can obviously enable this on RHEL based systems with a little vim usage :P)

Beauty of a wiki, you can edit it too! Go forth and make the switchers proud

Re: VoteMatch as a propoganda fighting machine

Colin Charles — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:18:19 -0000

I didn't bother weighing anything, largely because I was lazy ;-)

It might've been higher had I weighed it

Re: Sun Systems Tour; MyGOSSCON

Colin Charles — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:45:12 -0000

Its a wonder what a blog comment can do. You've got email with slide+synopsis now :)

And thanks for the information RE: RM350. I'm sure foss.my is a whole lot cooler, see you there!

Re: Quran’s costing RM1.3 million – wisest use of tax payer money?

Colin Charles — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:12:03 -0000

I don't actually see any google ads :) I like browsing with AdBlock so can't share the same irony.

These are from zakat payments though... if only we had the freedom of information act (foia).

Re: Taxes (2008)

Colin Charles — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:00:25 -0000

And look what The Star reports, recently... Contradictory if you ask me. Some excerpts, and the full article is at:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009...

Published: Wednesday July 1, 2009 MYT 11:49:00 AM
Updated: Wednesday July 1, 2009 MYT 12:29:26 PM
IRB refunds RM3.1bil to 323,517 taxpayers
By TEH ENG HOCK

KUALA LUMPUR: As of June 28, Inland Revenue Board has refunded RM3.1bil to 323,517 taxpayers, says board CEO Datuk Hasmah Abdullah.

Last year, 558,951 taxpayers received refunds, up from 400,360 in 2007.

On an average, Hasmah said that about 400,000 receive refunds annually.

As of June 30, 1,518,378 taxpayers filed their taxes via the e-filing system, 31% higher than the 1,156,277 people recorded last year.

She said about 75-80% of the 4.5 million active taxpayers had declared their income, and hoped the figure would grow in coming years.

“The rate is about 90-95% in developed countries,” she said.

Re: Flickr, and a GPS enabled camera phone

Colin Charles — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:04:49 -0000

From what I understand, the N95's camera is actually *better* than the one in the N96... in terms of it being shaky and all. Ditto with the N82.

Maybe its a firmware bug?

Re: On power outlets

Colin Charles — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:25:17 -0000

@lotso I'm sure there are more consumers out there like you (and me) :)

@ruben Nah, I asked. They said management didn't want anyone plugging their laptops in. The words stingy for electricity were heard.

Re: Amarok 2.0 uses MySQL

Colin Charles — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:45:34 -0000

Considering I work on/at MySQL, it only makes sense for one to be excited that its being used in a regular desktop application that lots of people use. Happy using AmaroK :)

Re: Thai Airways, good for business travellers

Colin Charles — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:44:48 -0000

She, is you lah :-)

Re: Networked multi-function printers/scanner recommendations

Colin Charles — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:25 -0000

Thanks Jeremy. From what I gather, the PSC 2510 isn't quite what I'm after... Its a photo printer, which is cool and all, but I'd prefer the workhorse to be a LaserJet (just used it longer, and I know it works a lot harder).

Yup, hpijs/Xsane is what I use on Linux, and there have been some network printers that allow scanning over the network, just not this particular model. The older models worked just fine using Xsane (I can't remember exactly which one, but its one Stewart/MacplusG3 recommended to me - but that one died a horrible death via the printer head itself failing in the first week of me owning it, so I promptly returned it to HP)

Re: Getting the iPhone 3G in Malaysia

Colin Charles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:46:25 -0000

NZ Vodafone is selling unlocked versions, from what I can tell. No contract. As MyMacBuzz concluded, they are they cheapest, even cheaper than those in HK (which I find weird - HK is the land where you get cheap unlocked electronic devices, usually)

Re: Getting the iPhone 3G in Malaysia

Colin Charles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:18:37 -0000

@Mikal I would really like to get an unlocked Android phone for myself, but they're not shipping to Malaysia. Anyone you can prod at the office to ensure this gets fixed? Seems to ship to Singapore... Malaysia is just up there.

Re: Getting the iPhone 3G in Malaysia

Colin Charles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:21:17 -0000

@Carolyn It seems in Malaysia, if you order it from the local "reseller", the colour makes a difference. Black is only available for the 8GB one... Or something like that.

I am just wondering why I don't go to New Zealand or Hong Kong and bring units back by the bag load. Seems like there's a market, clearly...

Re: On fearing the continuity of online services

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:12:33 -0000

Look, Google canned some more services:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/go...

"the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it's discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video. "

I actually use Google Notebook. Jaiku I never found too useful, considering I use Twitter. And where do I upload my videos now that I can't do it on Google Video? YouTube's 10 minute limit is just no good!

Re: Open Source saves Malaysian Government RM40 million

Colin Charles — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:59:22 -0000

They do, open source development. They have contributed one large package called MyMeeting back. I understand there are patches going back to things like spamassassin, et al, as they have "products" around it called MySpamGuard.

They have to work more on contributions, but I think they're doing a fairly good job of it, so far.

Re: Skype’s roaming WiFi, and the Singapore Airport

Colin Charles — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:14:04 -0000

It works if you roam with Singtel. I have no Singtel mobile. From what I understand, Wireless@SG is meant to be free nonetheless... its mostly singapore-wide, even

Re: On why the iPhone isn’t ready for the Malaysian market

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:19:48 -0000

Actually, I cannot remember the last time I needed to swap batteries on my cell phone. Oh wait, I can - it must've been 1998, when I was using a Nokia 5110. I had two batteries, one standard NiMH one, and one LiIon one (which was a slim battery). I think I carried on using the same batteries in the 6110 when I upgraded...

Since then, I've never had to swap cellphone batteries. In fact, I use a MacBook Air, which doesn't allow me to swap batteries. I thought this might be a big problem... and sometimes, it is, but it outweighs the convenience of not having to carry yet another battery. Yes, I wish the battery lasted longer, but at the same time, I'm not about to cry that its non-removable.

Re: Facebook kills

Colin Charles — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:31:17 -0000

@nazroll but by screwing his perception of you, might that also skew your perception to your other friends? or is that the goal? :-)

Re: Netbook shopping

Colin Charles — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:24:24 -0000

Hi Liew!

Yup, the 1000H is probably what I would have gotten... comes with SSD too. It doesn't seem like spinning the hard drive on the newer model seems to cause that much difference in battery life (in fact its boosted).

How's the battery life on your 1000H?

Re: Starbucks with two free wifi APs

Colin Charles — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:53:35 -0000

Nope, no Starbucks shares... Though considering how often I'm at a Starbucks, it might start becoming a good idea. Aren't they a bargain now?

Heh, over-priced deserts. I'm not a coffee snob, and even if I were, there are next to no places to satisfy my needs here in Kuala Lumpur.

So you might have the choice to go elsewhere... Kuala Lumpur residents, don't

Re: Tokyo Cabinet in MySQL?

Colin Charles — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:38:15 -0000

@Brian: Ah ok. So you've spoken with the author. And soon we'll get a MyISAM replacement... "soon" being the keyword

@Stewart: You work fast. Is it on launchpad?

Seems all the cool toys are sitting in drizzle now... Maybe I should take on a tree and have cool engines in mysql somewhere too. Ha!

Re: KDE 4.2 brings the MySQL server to the desktop

Colin Charles — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:05:47 -0000

@stewart: Yeah, drizzle when it becomes more mature, I'm sure might be good - its kernel based approach would be right

@arjen: Amarok for example, did come from using an entirely SQLite backend. There were however deficiencies, like performance with very large databases (lots of music - same story now - lots of PIM information), the fact that if you had many computers that shared one database, SQLite wouldn't fly.

Could it be schema related? I don't know.

But I was also surprised to see https://answers.launchpad.net/drizzle/+question... in where the poster wants Drizzle on an iPhone, because there are concurrency issues with SQLite.

Apple, while they encourage the use of SQLite for CoreData, don't use it themselves for some desktop apps also (there's a famous one that uses postgresql as the DB of choice).

I've also heard people complain that sqlite doesn't do fsync() well, and this is apparent with one's usage of popular browsers like Firefox. I've not had the time to investigate, and generally have no problems with my browser, so to speak.

However, I can't comment on SQLite much more, as I don't have vast experience using it.

Re: On Ma.gnolia, and data recovery

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:47:55 -0000

Hi Baron!

That's really cool stuff, I'll definitely be playing with it. No reason for any hackery, when there's already code on the Net :)

So rescue, then run innodb-tools. Very nifty.

Thanks!

Re: On Ma.gnolia, and data recovery

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:46:30 -0000

Hi Mark!

I have a feeling it was MyISAM. And will update all, if I get information from ma.gnolia.

-c

Re: Online photo printing comes to Malaysia – why not harness the Flickr API?

Colin Charles — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:21:05 -0000

@Carolyn it seems like a big MS shop of some sort. The app is architected against that platform

@lotso but oh, the convenience of not having to leave your house. Its interesting if they harness their printing technology with the Flickr API. today, otherwise, its not so interesting... especially if its faster to burn a CD with a bajillion photos, and take it to the photo shop and get it for rm0.30/4r print

BTW, where do you do your prints? I'm obviously looking for a new print shop clearly

Re: Online photo printing comes to Malaysia – why not harness the Flickr API?

Colin Charles — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:37:17 -0000

Hi Marvin,

Yes, a one-by-one upload for a lot of pictures, is kind of a pain. I have no Windows boxes lying around, and seeing ActiveX is an ultimate turn-off. Heck, look at Flickr Uploadr - they use XULRunner and you can find an Uploadr for Linux or MacOSX with no problem.

There are no Malaysian companies using Flickr integration that I know of. However, there are also no online printing companies in Malaysia that I know of, that are doing photo printing - getting photo printers aren't cheap, and the logistics of accepting payments and shipping stuff (trusting POS Malaysia!) is quite burdensome. Otherwise, if the barrier to entry was lower (i.e. dirt cheap printers), I might also be in business :-)

So, I'd like eoe to be a pioneer. They already have the hard stuff. Why not just hook up to the API, and not make me re-upload stuff?

EOE is a perfect example of brick and mortar going online yes. But they are also the e-commerce people talked about in 1996. Its 2009 now. Move with the times.

Kudos to making the service available online. But as Ow/lotso says, its no better deal now. I might as well burn a CD, and take it over to the store. No savings in cost, no ease, etc...

Will they implement my suggestion? Who knows. Maybe you'll tell them. Or maybe they'll read this...

Heck, maybe I'll get into the photo/art printing business, logistics, warts and all :-)

Re: FathomDB: Database as a service, in the cloud

Colin Charles — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:38:59 -0000

Hi Mark!

If you make a change to MySQL, and selling it on your grid, or on EC2, I don't see why you should be publishing your code or changes under the GPL.

I believe that you only need to publish the source changes, when you start distributing binaries. Which you won't be doing. You'll be selling a service, access to the binaries (via a connector, even).

That's my interpretation of it. IANAL though.

-c

Re: Getting VLC to display full screen video on the secondary/external monitor

Colin Charles — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:20:01 -0000

Somehow, that didn't work for me. I actually needed to select the display. Could it be a version mismatch -- what version of VLC are you using?

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:14:18 -0000

Yup. Get a decent phone - say an e-series device from Nokia, get JoikuSpot, ad use the iPod Touch :-)

And if Maxis thinks people are going to jump on the bandwagon that quickly, they're mistaken. Its just too expensive, and an unlocked unit is probably a better deal, anyway.

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:14:58 -0000

Yes, they've since taken the links down. Let me find people with screenshots and update the post

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:19:19 -0000

7-days DOA warranty?

I have a feeling that a Maxis warranty isn't much better. They can't do anything themselves. They'll have to send it elsewhere to get it fixed. And I doubt you'd get a 1-to-1 unit replacement either - Maxis is in this to make a lot of money from you, not excellent customer service (trust me, look at all the complaints about Maxis online...)

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:22:11 -0000

Yup. I think its a sin to pay so much for a phone, that is likely to be outdated in 3-4 months. And then, be locked into a contract you can't get out of, cheaply.

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:38:34 -0000

Limited data charges. And why not just pick up a unit from Low Yat or iWorld or something? At least your soul isn't bound for n-period of time for a contract?

Re: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

Colin Charles — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:40:11 -0000

Have you seen data plans on DiGi or Celcom, in terms of price comparison?

Do you also know the service quality of Maxis 3G? Its pretty abysmal.

Re: Podcast directory not available in iTunes Malaysia

Colin Charles — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:28:22 -0000

And before anyone leaves a comment saying its better to switch stores, no it isn't. The default for someone in Malaysia will be the Malaysian iTunes store. The credit card and address gets verified as the Malaysian iTunes store. Its about the initial experience. And all the new iPhone toting folk will face exactly this problem too. What about lacking over the air downloads for podcasts?

Read http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/12/13... for reference too.

Re: Mobile Number Portability and the switch to DiGi

Colin Charles — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:37:42 -0000

And you do? Do elaborate.

Re: Mobile Number Portability and the switch to DiGi

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:07:57 -0000

I'm sure its not too far along. Don't forget, they would have already been there, had they gotten the license.

How was the Digi Broadband launch? What was there?

Re: Mobile Number Portability and the switch to DiGi

Colin Charles — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:08:16 -0000

If you can't stand Maxis' lack of service, I suggest you consider switching

Re: Google Friend Connect, revisited

Colin Charles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:37:41 -0000

But all blogs these days have a comment feature. Unless we're using Friend Connect on non-blog-like sites (say, business times, or something). But even the malaysian insider, while not a blog, is joomla powered, and has the ability to comment on news feeds.

to me, it also seems that the comments added aren't unique to each page. maybe thats a configuration option (i think it was... i can't remember), but most software allows commenting now anyway

Re: On the mobile data business, and iPhones

Colin Charles — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:39:43 -0000

Remember, that you can upgrade the phone, without any problem, generally. I think its free for iPhones, but it cost USD$9.90/9.95 to upgrade iPod Touch'es. I recall doing that upgrade... no biggie (just a ~280+mb download or something)

Re: TwitterJobSearch, MySQL Job Fair

Colin Charles — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:24:09 -0000

Hi Katie!

This is great news. Thanks for the update, and thanks for taking the time to make this happen :)

Re: Cathay Pacific Economy: seats = fail

Colin Charles — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:36:18 -0000

Going to Hong Kong from KL was an OK experience. I had a front row seat, normally reserved for parents with kids. It was also a different plane, entirely (the HKG->SFO leg was on a 747).

Besides, I didn't even check if the seats in those (KUL->KHG) reclined... such a short flight, I got work done.

So make no mistake that only the last row (right before the toilets) can't recline on a long haul flight.. this happens no matter what row you're on, as long as you fly coach.

Re: Creative Vado Hands On Review

Colin Charles — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:07:49 -0000

Its definitely better than my E71. Its probably comparable with the N95/N96, but that I don't own, so I can't compare it well enough.

Re: Hyatt Internet woes… and how to fix it

Colin Charles — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:53:06 -0000

I think the MySQL network, should be fine. The WiFi every year just simply rocks. I was just referring to the hotel in-room access.

Re: Review: The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Colin Charles — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:56:55 -0000

A touch screen keyboard is nothing like one that provides tactile feedback, similar to a blackberry or an e71/e61i/e90/etc...

Re: Filing taxes online in Malaysia

Colin Charles — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:45:29 -0000

eTax failed my usage requirements, because its Windows based. I did use it (in a VM), and never liked it. Its friendly though, but I'd take a half-baked web based system, any day.

eTax had the other advantage of only having one language (English). So in that sense, the UI was less clunky.

But tax forms, are the same all around. Text, and a field. Nothing fancy.

Re: Using Facebook Groups over Meetup.com

Colin Charles — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:39:51 -0000

This is clearly, the only catch. What about folk that aren't on Facebook...

And this is where maybe having an email list helps. Or another webpage altogether.

There are always going to be people that don't join Facebook, and besides saying "get with the program", you're out of luck.

MySQL Meetups will close within two weeks :-( This is just an alternative (probably the best one out there)

Re: Using Facebook Groups over Meetup.com

Colin Charles — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:41:20 -0000

Looks swell! Go North Texas :-)

P/S: Remember to keep on updating Joomla! to avoid security issues...

Re: Google Maps Malaysia launched

Colin Charles — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:36:19 -0000

Pictures for the event are at: http://bit.ly/2h4Ui

Re: Software piracy, the BSA, and where’s the opensource love?

Colin Charles — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:41:44 -0000

Hopefully they're the correct Bahasa Malaysia words ;-) I Googled to find it, and never did find it!

Re: What Wikipedia looks like when their database goes away

Colin Charles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:37:23 -0000

Can you share with us what kind of reporting tools you guys have to see what happens and when? Also, how you guys detect faults and get it fixed automatically? I think a lot of people would love to know more about how Wikipedia works, and the nitty gritty behind it :)

Re: ChurpChurp: Nuffnang’s new Twitter offering

Colin Charles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:10:19 -0000

Thanks. I also updated the post to ensure no one gets confused with regards to @spam

Re: ChurpChurp: Nuffnang’s new Twitter offering

Colin Charles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:24:41 -0000

Hi Mellissa,
(thats two l's right?)

Blog ads are easily avoided, even with plugins like AdBlock on Firefox. Advertisements in your tweets, are just like ads in your Facebook statuses.

I can't answer on behalf of Twitter, but it seems like if your account is reported to @spam, your account could get disabled. You probably will get more unfollows than normal, but who knows?

Twitter has a strict anti-spam policy. A Churp sounds like spam. All it takes is some folk to report it, before you suddenly realise you might have to appeal an account suspension.

Magpie-Twitter accounts are still around. But maybe there have been closures. I'll ask Twitter, and see if I get a response in due time

-c

Re: ChurpChurp: Nuffnang’s new Twitter offering

Colin Charles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:28:53 -0000

In the meantime, reading:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311
(under spam)

# If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
# If a large number of people are blocking you;
# The number of spam complaints that have been filed against you;

I think unless you have a lot of people reporting that you are a spammer, you should be fine. But don't be surprised that there is an angry Twitterverse who don't want to see ChurpChurp ads...

Re: ChurpChurp: Nuffnang’s new Twitter offering

Colin Charles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:04:28 -0000

Hey NaS,

I erm, do follow you on Twitter. I'm @bytebot. Your tweets appear in my timeline, always.

So, will you be giving ChurpChurp a try?

-c

Re: MySQL Labs

Colin Charles — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:18:40 -0000

6.0 itself is done, but there are some interesting features that you'll see show up - things like online backup, batched key access, etc. So, in that sense, you'll look at it like the 5.1 GIS snapshots.

Good question, what do we call what comes after MySQL 5.4? MySQL Next? Mmrm.

Re: SecuRich

Colin Charles — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:00:01 -0000

Thanks! I'll update the link appropriately :)