Month: January 2009
Testdrive of Windows 7, first impressions
So, I managed to install windows 7 in vmware machine in the weekend. Actually in this case “managed” is a…
New monster is on its way
Microsoft announced today the availability of Windows 7. Starting from January 9 one can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/windows7. I, for…
Finding MySQL lockups
It’s been two months now since something drops one of my MySQLs on its knees. Run queue jumps up to…
Thus, the lesson on MySQL caching learned…
Default settings of MySQL are in no way good to work with large databases. Example: Virtual XEN machine, 512M RAM,…
MySQL join/select performance
Trying to speed up MySQL queries. I must admit that when it comes to indexing tables that are joined alltogether…
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone, Merry X-mas (the 25th one), Merry upcoming X-mas (the 7th one).