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About a week ago I finally got the chance to work on the back seat flying with my instructor in our Citabria . I'm not new to flying from the back. I've done so in gliders for a few years now, but I knew this was going to be a bit different. I wasn't concerned about the actual flying. Flying is pretty much the same no matter where you are. The only question is how many of the instruments you can see...
A few years ago I made an ASP.net version of Jeremy Zawodny's mytop tool, to use monitoring the MySQL servers that power play.tm . The tool consists of two simple parts - some general uptime, number of query, etc stats and the process list MySQL generates with the query "show processlist". The idea was to make it web-based and have the stats updating in near-realtime using AJAX. It worked a treat and...
Various news sources are reporting that Steve Fossett's wreckage has been found in the vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, California. There are a few interesting bits about what I've heard and read so far, but first have a look at the terrain that area. View Larger Map There are ski runs nearby and the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains isn't far either. The Mammoth Yosemite Airport sits at an elevation...
This is something that's been bugging me for a long time now. Over the years, I've come to realize that programming time is 10% about writing the code to do the work, 70% about figuring out where failures might occur and dealing with them, 10% about documentation, and 10% about documentation. (That last 10% may be substituted with Desktop Tower Defense or something equally time wasting.) Or something...
I just ran across news that Ubuntu Kung Fu is Shipping and happened to look at the cover. As a cat lover and technical book author myself, I felt a little slighted. That's right. Keir Thomas got a kitten on his book. That kicks ass. But even better, Ubuntu Kung Fu (PDF and printed) sounds like a real winner for day-to-day Ubutnu users. As the marketing blurb says: Award-winning Linux author Keir Thomas...
A few days ago I made a new grill recipe that turned out even better than we expected, so I've reproduced it here for your grilling and eating enjoyment. Ingredients 4 sirloin beef steaks (roughly 1" thick) 1/4 cup of dry mustard (Colman's works well) 1/4 cup Worcestershire Sauce (Lea and Perrins works well) Lime Juice or 1 large lime Coarse salt (sea salt is what I use) Freshly ground white pepper...
Dear Lazyweb, As of a few weeks ago, we have a computer hooked up to the 66 inch TV full-time. However, it currently has a wired keyboard and mouse, both of which are less than optimal when you'd prefer to keep your ass on the couch and pick a movie from the server upstairs. So I'm soliciting recommendations for a wireless keyboard and mouse (or keyboard/mouse combo) that has decent range (20-30 feet,...
OReilly High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition Jun 2008 High Performance MySQL, Second Edition Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More By Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Derek J. Balling June 2008 Pages: 708 ISBN 10: 0-596-10171-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596101718 Book description High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems...
A couple weekends ago we embarked on a seemingly simple painting project at home. We wanted finally paint over the wall that was torn up when I had plumbing problems a few years ago (see: The Leak, Day #2 , The Leak, Day #3: Leak Found, Pictures, Showering with a 90 Foot Hose, and other Fun Tidbits , The Leak, Day #7: Still Showering with a Hose , etc.). There were numerous cans of paint in the garage...
I'm thinking about ways to store archival data for the long term and wanted to solicit anyone who's been down this road for some input, advice, warnings, etc. Background Essentially I'm dealing with a system where "live" and "recently live" data is stored in a set of replicated MySQL servers and queried in real-time. As time goes on, however, older "expired" data is moved to a smaller set of replicated...
I've been hacking on some Perl code that extracts data that comes from web users around the world and been stored into MySQL (with no real encoding information, of course). My goal it to generate well-formed, valid XML that can be read by another tool . Now I'll be the first to admit that I never really took the time to like, understand, or pay much attention to all the changes in Perl's character...
Share your next bag of tradeshow swag by posting your photos on the Swag Report group on Flickr. While you're at it, check out some of this Yahoo! Schwag Check out some of the swag given out at last year's SES conference: On another note, Jeremy Zawodny (ex Yahoo! employee now at Craigslist) mentioned the Yahoo! swag he has received over the years in his post announcing that he was leaving Yahoo!....
I remember reading Disk is the new Tape earlier this year and how much it resonated. That's probably because I was working for Yahoo at the time and hearing a lot about their use of Hadoop for data processing. In fact, I even did a couple videos ( 1 and 2 ) about that. Anyway, I recently faced the reality of this myself. When I wrote about The Long Term Performance of InnoDB I'd been beating my head...
Last weekend afforded an opportunity to explore the Lembert Dome Hike in Yosemite National Park. Lembert Dome is the monolithic dome that dominates the eastern end of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. It's a justifiably popular ascent, particularly among day hikers in the area, with the summit offering magnificent views of Tuolumne Meadows to the west, the Cathedral Range to the south, and...
Dear Lazyweb, I'm interested getting an idea of what open source message queueing systems exist that are fast, stable, and have some good replication (think multi-colo) and fault tolerance built-in. The idea being, of course, that some processes want to send messages into a queue (of work to be done) and other processes will fetch those and do stuff with them. Ideally, I'm looking for a system that...
