Entries from Raj Shekhar

Liferea is almost the rss reader I have been looking for. If you are looking for a linux desktop rss reader, do give it a spin.

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.