It’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for entering the contest are on their blog, at the top of my recent guest post about covering indexes. View full post on [...] [...more]
Here are some the links I shared this week on twitter and facebook: Cloud Computing Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs, as well as my [...] [...more]
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids Xtrabackup for MySQL If you would like to stop by and say hello, we are Aleksandr, Istvan, Morgan [...] [...more]
Motorola and Verizon announce the Droid 2, available this week Motorola and Verizon continue to build on the success of the Droid by announcing the successor, the Droid 2. You can pre-order one starting tomorrow for $200 with a special R2-D2 one coming in… Read more on ZDNet [...more]
Specs of the new PC: — Inspiron Desktop 546 MiniTower Genuine Windows 7 Professional — Genuine Windows 7 Professional — Piano Black… See More — Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 945 Processor (3.0GHz, 8MB) — 1 TB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) 3.0Gb/s, 32MB Cache — Thermal Module Heatsink,95W — 64BIT Operating System DVD — [...] [...more]
