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Solved! ndbcluster ALTER TABLE yields “ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction” 15 May 2013 | 11:23 am
This is mostly a reminder to myself… but maybe someone else will find it useful as well. I migrated some databases to ndbcluster (some of the tables were fairly decent sized… 9GB for 1 table spanning ...
Random Email #38 26 Jul 2012 | 08:32 am
I don’t really use email… but once in awhile I skim through them. I forgot how funny email is sometimes. Email I got in it’s entirety: Not sure but I think I was violated I may be drugged or hypnoti...
Cacti Slow On Mac OS X (specifically RRDtool) 9 Nov 2011 | 11:19 pm
So this has been driving me mad since I installed Mac OS X 10.7… Any time Cacti tried to output a graph, it would output, but it was painfully slow (like 30 seconds)… prior to installing 10.7, it was ...
Agnostic Servers 8 Aug 2011 | 11:56 am
Seagate is still not producing the hard drives I want for new servers in sufficient quantity, but they do seem to be actually producing them now. I’ve seen places where I can get 30 of them lately… bu...
I Saved $4.5 Billion 24 Jul 2011 | 09:40 am
I was going to buy a Nimitz class aircraft carrier today, but instead I bought lunch at Rubio’s. And to be totally honest, I would rather have a burrito from Rubio’s even if an aircraft carrier was t...
Math Has No Relevance 22 Jul 2011 | 11:00 am
Is there some sort of Congressional entrance exam where you need to NOT be able to pass 1st grade math? Watching the whole deficit stuff unravel is like watching kindergardeners argue about something...
Router Firmware Upload From Mac Via Xmodem 6 Jun 2011 | 06:59 am
I had a switch that “lost” it’s operating system and was stuck in a reboot loop. Long story short is I needed to upload the OS via a direct serial connection to fix it. I didn’t have a Windows machine...
Starting To Think About Server Upgrades 28 May 2011 | 09:44 pm
Amazing that it’s been half a decade now since we got the new blade servers that we are running on (got them in June of 2006). Sadly, 12GB in a server just isn’t what it used to be and the database s...
PXE/Network Boot Linux With Mac OS X Server 3 May 2011 | 09:02 am
So I was in a situation where I want to upgrade the operating system on 10 blade servers that are in a data center. The problem is I really didn’t want to sit there and install the new operating syste...
How Much Does AT&T/U-verse Cost? 16 Mar 2011 | 07:59 am
So I heard that AT&T is going to start putting monthly usage caps on it’s Internet users (which is me), so it got me thinking about how much I actually pay for AT&T services… I have AT&T fiber to my ...
