General Blather

Something you don't want to see when you tell your system to boot: {0} ok boot ERROR: boot-read fail more »

Servers (and clocks and stuff) all went down about 3PM today. Most of the things came back fine. The database server (which runs under this blog, for one) did not start, nor did the VM that runs the database, nor did the database engine. All of that has… more »

After repairing the power supply the other day, all seemed to be going well. more »

This and other servers I control run MySQL for various purposes, and like the good administrator I am, I regularly store back-ups for disaster recovery. more »

My current gig isn't very busy, again, and I've been given too much free time to think of other things to do. more »

MySQL has just released version 5 of their database engine. more »

This is currently being served by the 64-bit MySQL 4.1.13 installation on the server! Woo and hoo! more »