I’m killing time at my mother in law’s at the moment, before bussing it back to Sydney (on the way back to the US) tomorrow, and I figured I’d visit Damn Interesting again. Some of the gems from this trip: An article on the use of deliberately introduced infections to treat tumours. How about a…
Month: July 2007
Reducing the MySQL query lock timeout?
Apart from sniping the queries, is there any other way to reduce the amount of time that a query will wait before giving up on getting access to a locked table?
“Thriller” as performed by inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center
Uncontrollably awesome: Via Boing Boing -> Poetv.
More reviews
I just got back from a lovely four days in Tasmania, and am just now catching up with the resulting email backlog. There are some new alerts about reviews of the MythTV book in there which are worth pointing out: I’m surprised and disappointed that the installation of MythTV through pre-built packages or a CD…
Zap2IT shutdown update
I’ve been silent on the Zap2IT shutdown issue for a week or so now, mainly because of travel, and also because I was waiting for something useful to happen. I’ve ready literally hundreds of emails of the users mailing list — many proposing architectures for distribution of data, or placing various demands about how much…