{"id":363,"date":"2005-12-29T04:09:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2006-01-02T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T08:19:14","slug":"christmas-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/29\/christmas-bliss","title":{"rendered":"Christmas bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry belated Christmas. As usual, I threw one of my annual Christmas lunches, which was well received. Before that, caught the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0363771\/\">Chronicles of Narnia<\/a> &#8211; good show. Also caught <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0343135\">Along Came Polly<\/a> on cable. Leave has enabled me to do other things &#8211; catching up on reading as well as getting up to scratch with various things. Oh, and photography &#8211; plenty during the holiday in Penang it would seem.<\/p>\n<p>Before the holidays started, I did get the R51 back to a <a href=\"http:\/\/fedora.redhat.com\/\">sane OS<\/a>; I then setup a Xen\/Qemu based virtualization environment, and the first guinea pig was Ubuntu 5.10. Pleased to say it installed well, and runs just fine. Feeling a bit of slowness on a Pentium-M 1.5GHz, but it&#8217;ll be fine. Fedora has had 1.7GB of updates since the time FC-4 has been released &#8211; thats an amazingly large number! 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The MySQL they use? Straight out of Debian! Of course, now, they're running with the Percona patchset, against MySQL 5.0.84. Definitely a good read. Its good to see Lars post about contributing to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2847,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/10\/being-attentive","url_meta":{"origin":363,"position":5},"title":"Being attentive","date":"10\/1\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As I always do, I make last minute purchases for Christmas. It's not because of the lack of planning, more so that I'm getting busier despite the holiday season approaching. From 10am - 10.06am I called Machines in Gardens. No one would pick up the phone. 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