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Memcached

I just watched Dormando make a release of memcached, fixing all known bugs, DURING the lightning talk where he talks about the state of memcached.

Syndicated 2008-07-24 18:30:15 from Mark Atwood

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Tim O'Reilly carries a large Moleskine notebook

Syndicated 2008-07-23 17:10:48 from Mark Atwood

Drizzle, my participation

I am writing this blog post up on Friday morning, to post on <o>Monday</o> Tuesday morning at OScon.

The big news in the MySQL and the open source database worlds right now is Drizzle.

This is the "secret project" that I have occationally mentioned here. For the past few weeks, when I was done giving my PS client their daily 8 hours, I would flip VMs and start hacking on Drizzle, focusing mainly on the plugin system. I've ripped out a lot of junk and useless code, changed the plugin interface structures, converted UDFs into plugins, and am currently working on making logging and authentication into plugins.

The bzr tree is rapidly changing, and getting leaner, cleaner, better, and faster, with each passing day. The email list and the freenode IRC channel have been clear and focused.

It's been very exciting.

Syndicated 2008-07-22 16:15:03 from Mark Atwood

RepRap Matter Compiler at OScon

This is a RepRap "Darwin" "Child". This reprap machine was printed by another reprap machine just like itself.

Syndicated 2008-07-21 22:24:38 (Updated 2008-07-21 22:25:43) from Mark Atwood

Project 365, Day 202: OScon Day Zero

Syndicated 2008-07-21 22:14:10 (Updated 2008-07-21 22:26:06) from Mark Atwood

Day 0 at OScon 2008

Yesterday morning, I drove down from Seattle to Portland, along with Brian Aker and Steven Walli. The event? OScon.

Very soon after arriving, I met Monty Widenius, Ronald Bradford, and Stewart Smith.

The presentations at the PostgreSQL meeting were interesting. The conversations at the dinners after were often more so. Josh Berkus is an interesting guy.

Oh, my aching liver...

Syndicated 2008-07-21 14:27:37 (Updated 2008-07-21 15:05:45) from Mark Atwood

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Arrived Portland OR. Postgress meeting, OScon

Syndicated 2008-07-20 20:48:27 from Mark Atwood

Running BZR on Fedora Core 9

There is a brokenness in the Bazaar bzr command line tool and in Launchpad.net, that was revealed on Fedore Core 9.

Launchpad.net uses a CA authority that a SSL library in one particular Python module doesnt know about. This is several bugs at once. Launchpad trying to be "special" with CAs, bzr having two completely different Python HTTP client libraries, and being inconsistant about checking SSL host keys.

But, until they quit fingerpointing and get it fixed, here is a good workaround, until they get it fixed. Run the following command:


curl -NO http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem >~/cacert.pem


Now the Python SSL HTTP library in bzr will use that set of CAs instead of the system one, and it will quietly and correctly Just Work

Syndicated 2008-07-19 22:02:49 from Mark Atwood

Looks like they were two peas of a pod

I just learned a lot about the first president Roosevelt.

Looks like he was just as bad as the other one.

Syndicated 2008-07-17 18:52:24 from Mark Atwood

New word: "Chancibility"

Portmanteau of "chance" and "possibility"

Syndicated 2008-07-15 23:23:10 from Mark Atwood