http://deanellis.com dean ellis frothing at the mouth Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:33:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was shown an item of interest to me this morning over at ye olde Xaprb's blog: Why MySQL might not benefit from having a mothership The bit that caught my eye, shortly into the post itself, was: The conversation went something like “I was talking to so-and-so, and he said, you know, ... http://deanellis.com/2009/05/05/mysql-mothership/ I've been composing my thoughts on the great disappointment which was the final hour of Battlestar Galactica, and moments ago stumbled across a blog (I don't read blogs) that expresses everything I feel so exquisitely it would seem almost like plagiarism to write my own comments. So here we go: How ... http://deanellis.com/2009/04/14/bsg-summation/ Every generic news site I've visited recently displayed this AS SEEN ON RACHELRAY weight loss ad ("FLAT STOMACH RULE: obey" or similar).  I've lost weight and thus know how to do it, so rather than thinking "Wow, this must be a hint!", I just ignored it like a bright boy. A ... http://deanellis.com/2009/02/07/weight-loss-blog/ I was tired of writing about Virtual Box 4 months ago, but it keeps coming up. So, I moved the server on which I typically use VMWare to run my Linux and Solaris applications (and most of my MySQL databases).  Unfortunately, this moved me from a very fast/stable wired connection to ... http://deanellis.com/2009/01/15/more-virtual-box-yappery/ I don't like to write blog entries about MySQL. I doubt that planetmysql.org includes me in our feed anymore, and generally that works out fine for all concerned.  My rantings while quitting smoking were probably at least "a minor contributing factor" in the filtering we now employ. It's not for lack of ... http://deanellis.com/2008/12/01/mysql-yoursql-we-all-sql-for-oursql/ I have to thank Governor Palin for reminding me that I am a Libertarian. Whew!  Almost voted Republican for the first time in my life, and would have if not for her. As weird as it seems to think of Barr as in any way supportive of "liberty", it is great to ... http://deanellis.com/2008/10/02/thank-palin/ So my Macbook Pro has been developing "issues".  In the midst of some very important work, everything started to run slower until the system was effectively locked up.  Even with a reboot, one could not actually launch applications. ssh worked, so I was able to copy everything I needed from the ... http://deanellis.com/2008/09/24/fruits-and-the-vegetables-that-service-them/ I set out to write about something completely different, but I ran across this article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm Or to quote: Pittsburgh Public Schools officials say they want to give struggling children a chance, but the district is raising eyebrows with a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive ... http://deanellis.com/2008/09/24/intentional-brain-damaging/ I am tired of writing about Virtual Box, but they have given me an early birthday present. Virtual Box 2.0 dropped today.  Now I have my 64 bit guests AND apparently the lockup under OS X was a VBox defect of some sort or other, because it does not occur under ... http://deanellis.com/2008/09/04/vbox-beatbox-ze-box-plain/ So I gave up and tried 32 bit guests, just for the sake of testing and comparing. I finally managed to get VBox functional on OS X.  Installed Ubuntu and discovered that I can lock up the VM at will by "ls -lR /".  This only happens under OS X and ... http://deanellis.com/2008/09/01/more-virtualbox-yapyapery/