Posted
on 14/6/2013, 5:08 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
Travel.
I’ve lamented the fact that there are very few stores in downtown San Francisco that I care about. The closure of bookstores, music stores, tech shops, etc. has been quite annoying to a frequent visitor.
Today after lunch I took a different path back and stumbled upon Alexander Book Co, on 2nd Street (between Market & Mission). I immediately went in. I saw a book that I liked, and the first thing I did? I whipped out my phone and checked it on Amazon. It was about USD$3 cheaper online.
Then I remembered that we have to support these indie retailers that are taking the trouble to still run a bricks & mortar store. I put my phone away and continued to find more interesting books, magazines, papers and more.
After browsing three floors, I walked out with many dead tree print items. I felt good. I know I spent more than if I had gotten it from Amazon, but I also know I would have never bought any of those items because I would have never discovered it online.
You can’t beat a physical space for discovery.
Posted
on 12/6/2013, 4:24 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Subject says its all, this is of course, very good news coming out of the Red Hat Summit. Looking forward to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. And of course, CentOS 7 and the other builds that follow. Thank you Red Hat!
Posted
on 12/6/2013, 12:40 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
So MariaDB 10.0.3 Alpha is out. Download it and remember to provide feedback.
When you run SHOW ENGINES by default, you don’t get CassandraSE or the CONNECT engine. Make sure you do a yum install MariaDB-cassandra-engine and a yum install MariaDB-connect-engine.
You will run into conflicts if you had an older MariaDB-CassandraSE engine (so yum remove MariaDB-CassandraSE).
Once you’ve got the packages installed, you can either install the plugin or just restart mysqld.
Happy testing!
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CentOS,
MariaDB,
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Posted
on 11/6/2013, 7:27 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Today I performed a brew update. I noticed that MariaDB now exists as stable (5.5.30) and devel (10.0.2). Brew formulas also exist for MySQL (5.6.10) and Percona Server (5.5.30-30.2) now. 10.0.3 is around the corner but I wanted to run 10.0.2 now. This is how I did it:
brew unlink mariadb
brew install --devel mariadb
It’s that simple!
Posted
on 7/6/2013, 11:24 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
Travel.
Posted
on 7/6/2013, 6:47 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
Lately Sara’s been cooking a lot as she makes recipes for JewelPie.
Over the weekend, I had some petai pizza toast. Just bread, with toppings like tomato paste, cheese, mushrooms, onions, and petai (Parkia speciosa).
Yesterday, I got to try the Mini pepperoni pizza. It really can be made in about 15 minutes and I had no idea that as a base, gyoza/wantan/dumpling pastry works a charm. I’m a big fan of the “Hawaiian pizza”, so I got bacon & pineapples on my pizza. It was wonderful!
For dessert, I had jambu (syzgium) with some asam. It came with rather interesting presentation skills!
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cooking,
pizza Comments Off on Sara’s JewelPie – I’m getting some great food!
