Tag Archives: rant

Google :-(

Posted on 2011/12/05 by

For past few days (days!!!) I’m not able to log into my account at Google (except GMail, thanks for that! – Voice/Blogger/Plus/Docs/… are all broken though). I’m either getting this message: Or I’m sent to infinite redirect loop. None of … Continue reading →

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Stonebraker trapped in Stonebraker 'fate worse than death'

Posted on 2011/07/08 by

Oh well, I know I shouldn’t poke directly at people, but they deserve that sometimes (at least in my very personal opinion). Heck, I even gave 12h window for this not to be hot-headed opinion. Those who followed MySQL at … Continue reading →

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On replication, some more

Posted on 2009/12/13 by

Dear MySQL, I feel ashamed that I ever wanted you to support 4.0->5.1 replication, and apologize for that. I really understand that it was really egoistic of me even to consider you should be involved in this. I even understand … Continue reading →

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on replication compatibility

Posted on 2009/12/05 by

Dear MySQL, I will do this to rest of your code, if you continue breaking replication for me. – Domas

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again, on benchmarks

Posted on 2009/11/19 by

Dear interweb, if you have no idea what you’re writing about, keep it to yourself, don’t litter into the tubes. Some people may not notice they’re eating absolute crap and get diarrhea. This particular benchmark has two favorite parts, that … Continue reading →

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Dear IT Security Industry…

Posted on 2009/09/10 by

… You are full of shit. I don’t know how effective your scare-mongering cash-extortion tactics are, but they don’t really help neither your users, nor vendors, nor anyone else. It all starts when major vulnerability databases start authoritatively spouting out … Continue reading →

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On file system benchmarks

Posted on 2009/06/30 by

I see this benchmark being quoted in multiple places, and there I see stuff like: When carrying out more database benchmarking, but this time with PostgreSQL, XFS and Btrfs were too slow to even complete this test, even when it … Continue reading →

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MySQL at Debian and Ubuntu

Posted on 2009/03/24 by

Good news, mysql-server package doesn’t suck miserably on Debian 5.0 or Ubuntu 8.10, unlike previous versions did (there were quite a few rants about CHECK TABLES being ran on huge healthy InnoDB tables, mysqld_safe would suddenly use 100% CPU, binlogs … Continue reading →

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tax

Posted on 2008/12/19 by

I love my country. Yesterday a law came in, in two weeks I’ll start paying triple income taxes (for all expenses too). I’m just knocked out today.

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.. some thoughts on Citizendium

Posted on 2007/03/29 by

Open-source communities have quite a lot of antagonism against their open-source ‘rivals’, instead of seeing as partners against Greater Evils. I imagine that bootstrapping a project like Citizendium is a huge task, so I followed some of the discussions in … Continue reading →

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