- January, 2007
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{"bluesmoon": "0x1F"}
Originally uploaded by bluesmoon.Valid JSON encoded birthday cake. I was expecting it to be perl-related (since it is bluesmoon's cake)
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mysql slave problem
If you are seeing the line
received 0 length packet from server, apparent master shutdownin 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 -
thinking big
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.
- December, 2006
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mysql's innodb_file_per_table tweak
If you use mysql's innodb table engine, you might find it useful to add the
innodb_file_per_tableoption 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 theibdatafile, thus making it easier for you to runoptimize tablefaster. 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.
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a letter to my friends
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 shekharPS: I will still love you even if you don't send me an email greeting.
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A.P.J Abdul Kalam on IIT
Atanu Dey has an interesting report about PanIIT 2006, which is the meeting of all IIT alumni. A.P.J Abdul Kalam was one of the speakers there and this is an extract from his speech
His introductory remarks lasted for about 10 minutes in which he panned IITs. He used an interesting device. He said that he called up a bunch of people the previous day and asked what was the first thought that came to their minds when they heard the word "IIT" His respondents included, among others, a General in the army and a former director of an IIT. The responses he received ranged from "very low value addition" to "largely irrelevant" Not exactly the sort of thing that the organizers of PanIIT wanted to hear, I am sure. But then, Kalam had warned that what he was about to say was going to be "mixed"
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I never could get the hang of Thursdays
Do you know what a Nutrimatic Machine is and do you want to own one ? Do you know what the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is ? And do you know of a liquid that tastes "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea". To summarize the summary, if you answered all the questions in a yes, you need The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases . Share and enjoy, but don't ask me any questions
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