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BayPIGgies User Group: YouTube for Your Business

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Administrator

Google staff presented two talks at the BayPIGgies Python Users Group tonite: Python At Google (A Google IO talk) YouTube for Your Business Python At Google (A Google IO talk) Python 2.6 is an officially-supported production language, along with C++ … Continue reading →

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MySQL SUPER Privilege: Just Say No

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Administrator

I wrote this post so that MySQL DBAs can link to it whenever end-users insist on application accounts (I usually use ‘prod’) having SUPER privilege. Here is a partial list of problems with MySQL application accounts having SUPER privilege: allows … Continue reading →

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MySQL Replication Error 1159

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Administrator

Interesting spurious MySQL 5.1.57 replication error in an old production master-slave setup with correctly configured server-ids: mysql> show slave status\G [...] Last_IO_Errno: 1159 Last_IO_Error: The slave I/O thread stops because a fatal error is encountered when it try to get … Continue reading →

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Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Administrator

Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011 was held this weekend at Foothill College near San Jose. There were 209 sessions and 3,414 registered attendees. I did not attend, but have seen some of the talks at other conferences in the past year. … Continue reading →

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Redhat Buys Gluster

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Administrator

Redhat buying Gluster is one of the biggest news stories in storage this year – and for a paltry $136 million. List price for support was $4,000 to $11,000 annually per node, where a node is a server with possibly … Continue reading →

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