Tarus for president !
The only unrealistic part about the scenario is that I fear that most purchasers within a government agency won’t be asking these questions, yet.
Mysql
Open Source does not mean Customization Heaven..
Unless you are doing it wrong.
And sadly I`m seeing more and more people doing it wrong.
To a lot of people Open Source means that they have a piece of software that does almost what they want and which they can modify to their best wishes and use internally.
So they fork locally,, they don’t redistribute their code , but they aren’t contributing their changes back upstream, chances are these changes wouldn’t be accepted upstream anyhow as they are really customizing the code for their specific cases. At first sight this doesn’t look so bad , at second sight ..
The Story Repeats
I covered this one before .. but as it struck twiced today .. I think it’s worth repeating. Both my collegue Karl and Trent ran into the same problem , within hours hours of eachother, a missing or failing reverse dns mapping that caused performance issues .. and a lot of log entries..
Karl denies having a second life in Perth but I`m not really sure about that …
But I guess they both have to agree… Everything is a fscking DNS problem.
(I noticed other people using that spelling this weekend, on stage in the Janson)
Monitoring MySQL
The slides for my Monitoring MySQL talk , which I gave earlier today in an overcrowded MySQl Developersroom at Fosdem are now online, both at my site and at Slideshare
As of now I actually expect people to use those slides for schoolwork or next year in a main Fosdem track :)
As afterall that is the goal of Open Source and spreading the word ..
On Monty Leaving Sun
When I read Monty’s post on leaving this passage struck me the most.
The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed, as can be seen on my previous blog post. In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow.
Open Source Database Poll
So Fred and I were wondering what people were planning to use as a Database the next couple of months / years or now.
We mostly see MySQL deployments and a little PostgreSQL
But there’s other stuff around ..
So what are you using, , or planning on using ?
Stop stupid Software Patents
If you read this blog, you should probably sign the petition !
How popular is an Open Source project ?
There is a really easy way to figure out …
Look at the size of of the devrooms , if at all , a project gets at Fosdem
It’s really interresting to see the Embedded room move to a 500 seat room which it really needed when the first openMoko talk was held there in a previous edition.
The FDO , Drupal, Mozilla, Centos/Fedora and Suse rooms stay in similar size rooms as last year.. But it seems lik the BSD and PostgreSQL room which was pretty crowded moved to a bigger location.
Contributing Back
A while ago Dries wondered about Contributing back to Drupal .
Now Inuits is not a Webshop, we are an Open Source shop, so you won’t see a zillion Drupal modules being contributed by us in the near future (albeit there are a couple) , we are company assisting other organisations in their adoption of Open Source, and Drupal is amongst the projects we care for. You’ll notice code from us in the different other Open Source projects, including the Linux Kernel and other core infrastructure. And not all of it was code, there is a lot of published documentation, methodologies, bughunting and also spreading the words, or talking about our experiences around different topics such as MySQL Cluster and Drupal, or different alternatives to Monitor , or to Monitor MySQL etc ..
MythTV recover Lost+Found
My MythTV store lives on an LVM volume that is spread over 2 disks, one of them is an external USB disk. So the cleaninglady seems to have touched a cable and after coming back from holiday I had a read-only filesystem that afer a remount had about 350Gb in lost+found with irrelevant filenames.
1. total 337407844
2. drwx------ 2 tv tv 4096 Dec 17 22:47 .
3. drwxrwxrwx 15 tv tv 4096 Dec 17 22:44 ..
4. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423343556 Dec 14 07:10 I303109.RCN
5. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2990538924 Dec 13 19:05 I303107.RCN
6. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023691768 Dec 13 08:10 I319494.RCN
7. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023622348 Dec 13 07:45 I327684.RCN
8. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423735892 Dec 13 07:10 I327682.RCN
9. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466749476 Dec 12 15:43 I135169.RCN
10. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023314212 Dec 12 07:45 I098309.RCN
11. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022459928 Dec 12 06:35 I098306.RCN
12. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2458822948 Dec 9 22:50 I139264.RCN
13. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2129683736 Dec 9 21:30 I323592.RCN
14. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466735992 Dec 9 15:43 I323590.RCN
15. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022747296 Dec 9 07:45 I323588.RCN
Obviously I wanted to recover my data.
So I had files with a wrong filename on a filesystem but with a correct timestamp and probably the right filesize.
Luckily the mythconverg.recorded table also gives me lots of information about the files that mythtv had originally stored the content in.