Archive for June 2006

Communications, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS & MySQL downloads

I was just reading a text on effective communications, and there was something interesting I noted. With different values and backgrounds all over the world, a lot of things happen (use of colloquisms, etc.) with regards to people understanding each other. When there’s face-to-face meetings, there’s also non-verbal communication to keep note of.

It turns out in South Africa, they call it Ubuntu (we’re much more familiar with its “humanity for others” meaning by now, for sure). They value collective efforts in solving issues that impact the members of the community. And if you’re ever face-to-face with a South African, limited eye contact often shows respect and humility (this is similar with Japan, its polite). In the Western world though, we need eye-contact for confidence purposes, and to show that we’re sincere.

Its also worthy to note (yes, this post had a point) that on the MySQL 5.0 downloads page, there exists Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) downloads. Its the first time there are DEBs there.

Sure, its best to just sudo pat-get install mysql-server, but that also effectively means MySQL has recognized DEBs, and with Ubuntu at that. Its LTS as well!

VoodooPad Lite

Because Tomboy doesn’t run superbly well on OS X (where are those magical native GTK bindings on OS X?), I decided to give VoodooPad Lite a twirl, after reading one of Rui’s posts. And I’m mighty impressed.

When it came to searching, it seemed like the full version was the only thing that supported searching thru the entire “wiki” file. However, with the wonders of Spotlight, I figured that’s one feature you don’t actually require, as Spotlight indexes the contents of the files, and you’ll get searches just beyond the titles or a single wiki page.

My spelling when I’m doing fast typing, and multitasking (like being on the phone) tends to be a little erroneous. Spell checking is important, especially if I’m taking down notes/ideas/thoughts. So, Preferences -> Options -> Check spelling as you type is something you definitely want ticked.

When I copy a link from my news-reader (NetNewsWire) I can’t actually paste it in VoodooPad Lite for some absurd reason. It only pastes the title text (i.e. what is between the link and the </a> tag). This seems fairly useless, so I filed a bug report accordingly. If you use Paste with Current Style however, it works (but the shortcut isn’t Mac+V, its Alt+Shift+Mac+V).

NanooNanoo

And my dry spell with the lack of music has ended. The music stopped playing in my ears on the 6th of February, 2006, the day I saw my first hung man.

I now have a 2GB iPod Nano, its all black, and I’ve just transferred quite a bit of music to it. Its rather pleasing. This also means that I can finally start looking into having the drive to maintain gtkpod again (thanks Noa for taking care of it in my absence).

OK, this was a few weeks ago. For what its worth I also did get a hard case, to protect my Nano from scratches. I’m using my old pair of earbuds. What’s interesting is that my Belkin Bettery Pack for iPod seems to work on the Nano. I wonder if this is intended or bad things may happen?

Do you MySQL 5? (.0.21)

Knoppix 5.0.1 available:
It looks quite nice, although some of the packages are very up to date and others are quite old. MySQL comes with 5.0.21, so there’s probably no distribution with a more recent MySQL version at the moment.

No Markus, Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper actually comes with 5.0.21 just as well. On June 1. And with their new Casper system, the CD you download is actually a LiveCD and an Install CD all rolled into one! 5.0.22 is a security release, for what its worth…


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