From an AC (Paraphrased):

MySQL frees up the programmer from having to think about such hard things as transactions that abort because they violate integrity rules or there's a conflict with annother transaction, and it appears faster because commits return before the data is written to disk.

There's an article on Two-factor authentication using pam_usb in the November issue of Linux Journal, and "Source by CC" (formerly Radio Shack in Canada) has rugged 128MB usb flash drives for $20.

The box even lists Linux 2.4 or above in the requirements. Considering the design and size of this USB stick, I think they had twofactor authentication use in mind.

Some time later: Indeed they did! It comes out of the box formatted for two factor authentication use on Windows, write protected and with a crazy non-standard partitioning scheme, including a hidden partition and announcing itself as a 256KB disk. To re-format it and make it not write protected you need a special windows-only program. This was most annoying as I currently have an iBook (MacOS X 10.4), and a flock of Linux machines, but no windows machine.

Narrator: In A.D. 2005, transaction was beginning.

Captain: What happen ?
Programmer: Somebody set up us the MySQL.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
MySQL: How are you gentlemen !!
MySQL: All your money are belong to user 127.
MySQL: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
MySQL: You have no chance to ACID, make your backup.
MySQL: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every Table!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move Table.
Captain: For great justice.

Right... Around this enterprise, we like strict ACID, Nested queries, Standard SQL syntax and semantics, and 24/7/365 availability. On mature systems, not the latest development release. Without having to carefully choose our table types.

Last night I dreamed that I crashed a wedding just to take pictures.

I get this today:

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I wonder if it's because I used the word fag (I was saying someone else's comment was biggoted)

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Blah. I think I'll go drink some structured water.

So the commission has reported that there's no-one at fault for the HMCS Chicoutimi fire. Well how about the engineers who put an electrical cable wired to a high current source without a circuit breaker at the lowest point of an ocean going vessel?

It seems like a long time since any of my comments have been modded.

On Friday night I had a date with a woman I dated briefly 3.5 years ago. It seemed to go OK (but not spectacular).

Driving her home though (she lives way out in the boonies), my car died very close to her house. It was late, foggy, raining, and very dark, so she invited me to stay the night.

We talked long into the night, and now I'm thoroughly smitten. There's something that just feels right about being with her. After so many false starts with women with emotional problems or otherwise were just not what I was looking for, it's nice to be with someone who is right.

On Saturday morning I got the car towed to a garage and had the alternator replaced by 2pm, and the car was right as rain since then.

I recently bought a (used) sportscar. I guess now I have to turn in my environmentalist card. At least it passed the aircare test with flying colours and gets better mileage than the boat of a company car I'd been driving. Plus it's not riced, so it still gets factory mileage. Moded ones of that model can have 300-400HP (600 with Nitrous), with proportional fuel consumption. Stock it's 140HP@5500 and 156fp@4000.

I bought Car Hacks and Mods for Dummies, read it thoughly, and decided on my upgrade path. I'm going to do nothing other than required maintenance.

My medium format slide projector finally came. 6x6 slides rock. Now I just have to figure out how to scan them to post on my portfolio on photo.net.

It seems the Moskva 5 is really hard to focus in the dark (due to the tiny rangefinder aperatures).

Being drenched in water will cause an uninterruptable power supply to interrupt. (No Tsunami, just a leaky roof and a snowfall followed by a warm day, on a long weekend)

I won an auction last night for a really old medium format (6x9) camera. It's very similar to this one. I hope to use it for my night photography and other scenic shots. It won't be any good for portraits or wildlife as it only has a normal lens. It appears to be an F2 though, which is really bright for a rollfilm camera normal lens. Also it has a weird viewfinder, which should make composing shots difficult. I'll probably post more about it next week. If I had buckets of money I'd probably have bought a 4x5 view camera instead. I'm considering the possibility of making one by hand if I can get some film holders and lenses somewhere cheap (but good). They're not complex if you don't need super precision scales on the movements (you don't as it's all done by eye anyways), the tricky part is making them both light-tight and inexpensive.

For those that don't know, a view camera is one of these. The big advantages of them are

• Really big film, which means lots of detail in the negative
• Flexible movement, which allows you to shift the image, change perspective, and have different areas of the picture in perfect focus.

The disadvantages are:

• They're big, bulky, and heavy
• They're really slow to set up
• The film holders are big, only hold one shot each, and must have the film inside changed in a dark room (not nescesarily a darkroom) or film changing bag
• The film must be developed in your own darkroom or a custom photo lab (definitely not wal-mart or the drugstore). This is true for medium format as well