Entries from Raj Shekhar

I cleared the Certified MySQL 5.0 DBA (CMDBA) certification exam yesterday. To put it politely - MySQL 5 is my bitch!

The movie starts with Homer saying 'I can't believe we're paying for something we get free on TV!'. However, not for one moment did I regret coughing up the money for the movie tickets. It has lots of jokes and, as always, it also bites the hand that feeds by making jokes on the Fox Network. The best part of the movie is obviously the Bart Simpson skateboarding to Krusty Burger scene.

Final verdict: Watch it!

Links:

• Simpsons the Movie on Y! Movies

If you are a nokia phone user, be warned that Nokia warns consumers of battery overheating risks. A Nokia battery will have "Nokia" and "BL-5C" printed on the front of the battery. On the reverse, the Nokia mark appears at the top and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom.

Links:

• list of affected products
• How to identify if your battery is affected

I must be the last person to discover the last.fm, but it rocks! I especially recommend their guitar radio. This is my profile there - if you are into that sort of thing.

If you are looking for buying/renting a home in Bangalore, check out the BDA sites Bangalore discussion group. Thanks to this Hindu article for pointing out the group. I have opted for daily digests, as the number of messages are around 30/day.

The shameful number is 29. One more year before I get counted as "aging and dangerous'

I am interested in the mysql user activity monitoring patch that Google has. They have not released each feature as a separate patch and instead have given out one-big-patch-file . Preliminary analysis shows that user accounting requires modifications to be applied in these files. The numbers in the second column are the number of lines modified in the original file via the patch. The output was generated using egrep and diffstat.