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Category Archives: misc
When bad things happen!
When bad things happen, like… ‘strace -f’ or ‘gdb’ or any other process inspection tool decides to hang your precious processes (they show up in state T in process lists), there’s always help: #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <signal.h> main(int ac, char … Continue reading
update
In past few months I had lots of changes going on – left the Sun/MySQL job, my term on Wikimedia Board of Trustees ended, I joined Facebook and now I got appointed to Wikimedia Advisory Board. This also probably means … Continue reading
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Knight’s Cross!
We had very special State Award Ceremony today. Special, as it happens at the year we celebrate “thousand years of Lithuania”, special as it is the last one given by our very special President Valdas Adamkus. Though for me, it … Continue reading
I’m a creative commoner
Lately Creative Commons is becoming very dominant topic in my life. First of all, I see all the people in free culture world holding their breath and waiting for Wikipedia switch to CC license. I’m waiting for that too – … Continue reading
Many needles in a haystack
This is probably quite useless experiment I’ve been doing, but it all started when someone in #mysql@freenode gave a very simple task: Table A has two million rows Table B has two thousand rows Find all rows in A, which … Continue reading
Memcached for small objects
Memcached quite often ends up as a store for very small objects (small key and some integer value), though it isn’t really designed to do this kind of work by default. Current memory management is based on slabs (200 of … Continue reading
tax
I love my country. Yesterday a law came in, in two weeks I’ll start paying triple income taxes (for all expenses too). I’m just knocked out today.
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Computer art
One immediately realizes Apple computers are very artsy, and why they’re loved by designers and such. Instead of showing BSODs, they start making abstract art. Thats how it shows me my mail:
Talks
I’ve opened a talks page, which is supposed to list slides from my talks at various conferences (well, mysqlconf mostly :) – I had to miss few conferences simply because of time clashes already, so having these public may help … Continue reading