lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

I was out of Bangalore (had to go to Delhi) from 12th to 17th Jan and I did not have access to net at that time. I noticed that Delhi is still an iPod free city and it really is cold there

Small list of stuff everyone thinks is cool, but I did not find them worth the price all the electrons had to pay

• Second life - seriously people, what is so great about it that you are paying real world money for virtual stuff.
• A-list Bloggers - some of them are a bunch of pretentious idiots. Enough said.
• Orkut

Valid JSON encoded birthday cake. I was expecting it to be perl-related (since it is bluesmoon's cake)

If you are seeing the line received 0 length packet from server, apparent master shutdown in your mysqld.err file (when your mysql server is a slave), check the server-id of the machines which are replicating from the same server. Most likely, you will find that there are boxes which have the same server-id

My manager made a very good one-liner today (in context of whether we should concentrate on research or on actual implementation)

Think big and implement in small steps.

If you use mysql's innodb table engine, you might find it useful to add the innodb_file_per_table option to your my.cnf file (under the [mysqld] section). This will create each innodb table in its own file/tablespace instead of putting everything in the ibdata file, thus making it easier for you to run optimize table faster. However, this option only affects new tables. Old tables would still live in the shared ibdata file.

Links: mySQL DBA has some further observations about this option and this is the mysql's manual page about this issue.

My dear friends,

I know you love me and wish me well. I know Orkut has this feature where you can mail all your friends in one click, but if you really consider me such a special friend, do take some time out to send me a separate email. Or better still, give me a call. If you cannot be bothered enough to do this much for your friends, please don't flood their mail boxes with generic greetings. No one reads them, and you really should not bother sending such emails. If you feel like you are doing a disservice to your friends by not sending them even generic greetings, trust me, no one really cares.

Thanks for reading till the end,
Your grumpy friend,
raj shekhar

PS: I will still love you even if you don't send me an email greeting.