Monthly Archives: October 2007

Twitter on Earthquakes 0

Well that was a fun one. Quick confirmation:

Categories: san francisco

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October 30, 2007 – 7:08 pm
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AT&T Invents Programming Language to Spy on Americans 0

What do you get when you combine a cool distributed system, new programming language, and illegal government spying? Apparently, a programming language named Hancock: An AT&T research paper published in 2001 and unearthed today by Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker shows how the phone company uses Hancock-coded software to crunch through tens of millions [...]

Categories: open source,security

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October 29, 2007 – 10:08 pm
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Initial Release of mysqlslavesync 2

I’d like to announce the first release of mysqlslavesync. This is a script to perform unattended cloning of MySQL slave servers (or masters) to put a new slave online with minimal interaction. It connects to the source node, performs a mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy, transfers the data, restores the data, and then sets up all replication [...]

Categories: linux,mysql

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October 29, 2007 – 9:24 pm
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log5j 0

OK. I’m on a roll tonight. I just released another small library named log5j which is a facade around log4j: Logger facade that supports printf style message format for both performance and ease of use. The Log5j package supports a ‘modernized’ interface on top of the class Log4j API usage. It provides a few syntactic [...]

Categories: open source

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October 29, 2007 – 9:14 pm
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Prediction: Ron Paul’s 10M Fund Raising Hack will Backfire 2

The Ron Paul campaign is trying to take in $10M in one single day. Which is an impressive goal and I think they have a good chance of pulling it off. If they succeed it will be the single biggest day of campaign contributions in US history. The problem? Their huge political win is going [...]

Categories: politics

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October 29, 2007 – 8:51 pm
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Thoughts on Innodb Internals (RE Heikki Tuur) 1

Heikki Tuuri has responded to the Innodb questions the community asked him earlier this month. There’s a lot of information here so instead of just responding in comment form a dozen times I decided to make this just one coherent post. Q7: Does Innodb has any protection from pages being overwritten in buffer pool by [...]

Categories: linux,mysql,open source

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October 29, 2007 – 6:20 pm
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MySQL IPO – Are We Friends and Family? 0

Rumor has it that MySQL is filing for an IPO: One of the most-anticipated tech IPOs of the year has been that of open-source database company MySQL. It seemed like they were ready to go public back in the beginning of the year. Now I am hearing chatter from hedge fund circles that the filing [...]

Categories: linux,mysql,open source

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October 29, 2007 – 5:07 pm
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Both Barak Obama and Chris Dodd will Filibuster Immunity Legislation 0

Well this makes my day: It’s official: Obama will back a filibuster of any Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity, his campaign has just told Election Central. The Obama campaign has just sent over the following statement from spokesman Bill Burton: “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive [...]

Categories: politics

Published:
October 24, 2007 – 2:49 pm
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The First Rule of Lobbyconn 0

Is that you do NOT TALK ABOUT LOBBYCONN!: “The sessions at technology conferences are often like plots in porn films,” said Ben Metcalfe, a technology consultant from San Francisco who said he lobbycons about four conferences annually. “It’s required for the context, but it’s not really what you paid for.” … In any case, Rafer [...]

Categories: san francisco,startups

Published:
October 24, 2007 – 1:05 am
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Nice Catch 0

I really like this image on pizdaus by Miguel Lasa. This looks like an Osprey with about a 5 lb. Largemouth Bass.

Categories: Uncategorized

Published:
October 22, 2007 – 3:57 pm
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