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Did anybody else catch the recent supreme court ruling?
The president of the U.S.A. has been found guilty of breaking international law by the supreme court. But the whitehouse has been jumping on any reputable news sources that mention it. So here I am. Nobody takes me seriously anyway. Mr. Bush and perhaps his cronies are officially criminals. Will anything come of it? I…
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Bye bye norseth
cjcollier@norseth:~/Desktop$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 Time to return the computer to MySQL Thanks for letting me keep it long enough to clean it up, folks!
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Everett Wireless Network update
I’ve been wandering around Everett today with Scarlet. We went to the County building, the City building and the Everett PD to discuss IT-related things. The main thing that we spoke about was the state of the Everett Wireless Network. I feel that the community should host its own internt service, and I’m trying to…
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State of the C.J. – 20060625
C.J. Blathers about recent major changes in his life. https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.ogg https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.mp3 Mail me for credentials.
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Quake mdl loader bits and a (more) managed gtkglarea-sharp
So… Now that I’m unemployed, I’ve got a few minutes to work on some mono stuff. I’ve committed a quake .mdl file loader to the GtkGLAreaSharp examples directory. I’ve got plans to display the model using the framework, but that’s not quite finished yet. On #mono today, someone asked for an interesting feature. They think…
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Wall Street Cred
So… I don’t normally read the Wall Street Journal, but I was sitting in a waiting room for a few hours yesterday and the security guard, noticing that I was bored, brought me a copy. I read the table of contents and browsed to an article on network neutrality. For those of you who didn’t…
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Network Neutrality in a nutshell
Network Neutrality is a term used to encompas the need for a balanced playing field on the Internet. Proponents for neutrality claim that having a tiered infrastructure will create a hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots.” The perceived problems would be similar to U.S. politics’ main problem: everyone has an equal vote; but those with…
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Shaking things up
It’s been a hectic week, and it’s only Tuesday. My wife and I recently made a decision to move on from MySQL. My passion is software development, and my experience doesn’t lend itself well to database development. Therefore, I’m returning to Amazon on Monday, if my intel is correct. Through a strange series of coincidences,…
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New release of DBD::mysql (v3.0004)
Patrick released a new version of the perl MySQL connector. This .pm was my introduction to the mysql world, way back in the day. If you can program your way out of a perl brown paper bag and you haven’t used this tool yet, I recommend you write a hello world program to get familiar…
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MaxDB Synchronization Manager User Report
United Drugs had occasion to use the Synchronization Manager in production at this year’s convention. Mark Thomas (of United Drugs) and the MaxDB team at MySQL have been getting a use case document together to present the experiences. We had a great deal of help from the SyncMan dev team at SAP Berlin and Chris…