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Flying to Auckland this arvo (that’s afternoon in Aussie for a week and a bit. If you would like to catch up, have dinner, talk MySQL, Drizzle, Open Source in general, smart business innovation, or any other interesting stuff, drop me a line or SMS (not call please I might be teaching) +61-438 [...]

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Are you in Melbourne/VIC, and are you an experienced DBA needing to tune InnoDB? Or do you just maintain some MySQL instances on the side and need to know more about proper installation, security and backup/recovery methods?
Well… the upcoming Open Query course days in Melbourne still have seats available. The topics:

Monday 15 September: MySQL Installation, [...]

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Wow indeed, it’s been almost a year already! How time flies… I left MySQL in July 2007, and had two months much needed holiday.
But one needs to live, and opportunity in Australia was clearly there, so I started Open Query in September and went for part familiar, part less familiar territory. The less familiar was [...]

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Please allow me to take your mind on a little adventure! I was just reading A global Chinese software company in the next 20 years? about how China goes about acquiring technical know-how. It’s not quite like what Japan did after WWII, it uses unique aspects of China, such as its size as well as [...]

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Alrighty, got flights in sardine-class with nasty airlines organised & paid, so I’m going to OpenSQL Camp 2008! See you all there?

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OpenSQL Camp 2008 is coming! When and Where: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA November 14, 15, and 16 2008!
Organised by Baron Schwartz & others, and attended by loads of cool and interesting people (Brian, Monty and Baron are already on the attendee list!) you’d better get ready for a dynamite weekend of learning, contributing, and having fun! [...]

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Aka, colliding MD5, but in a very cool 12-way demonstration:
We have used a Sony Playstation 3 to correctly predict the outcome of the 2008 US presidential elections. In order not to influence the voters we keep our prediction secret, but commit to it by publishing its cryptographic hash on this website. The document with the [...]

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This book is just “too” popular It took a bit of jiggling with Amazon’s stock levels (they say in-stock but if you order some quantity it’ll delay the shipping, then you can tweak down and find out , as well as a deal with the friendly people at Australian book distributor Woodslane, [...]

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Are you in Canberra/ACT, and are you an experienced DBA needing to tune InnoDB? Or do you just maintain some MySQL instances on the side and need to know more about proper installation, security and backup/recovery methods?
Well… the upcoming Open Query course days in Canberra still have a few seats left. No, it’s not “nearly [...]

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Help…. the info I find online online is a tad messy and sometimes outdated. Has anyone created installable Scribus packages for OS X yet?
I’d prefer to not go through the whole Fink saga, and MacPorts doesn’t appear to want to fly for building qt4. Each approach seems to have some issues, but perhaps that observation [...]

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