“fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1”

which is the equivalent of

“mount -o remount,noatime”

Yay!

I give up.

Really. How hard can it fucking be ?

You know, if I had some kind of thing against Vodacom I would make these things up. But I don’t. I’m just a dude wanting to get his invoice.

I guess, I will have to  wait for my paper invoice (if that ever arrives).

So, MySQL néé Drizzle has always had a pluggable storage engine architecture.

Check up on InnoDB, Berkely DB, myISAM and the others.

These are all essentially BTree, and KeyValue stores, which when combined with the MySQL engine brings us SQL.

So… What about a pluggable MongoDB storage driver for Drizzle (since MySQL is Oracle’ised and dead).

This would give great scalability, sharding, on top of a well known layer (SQL) for people that cannot make the NoSQL shift, and in fact the combination of NoSQL and SQL might just make great sense for NoSQL people too.

Yes, Drizzle and SQL has schemas, but MongoDB doesn’t care, and neither did InnoDB and the others, really. The Drizzle MongoDb storage driver could take care of a schema and enforce it, or not. And imagine an “alter table” taking 100 milliseconds when defaulting to null across a few million rows…

Remember. I called it first 😉

** update **
Something like http://www.rabbitreplication.org/ is actually neat but sort of the reverse way I envisioned things, but useful nonetheless.

**update**

And it’s still running at http://www.hostingunlimited.co.za/
Unlimited mistakes indeed.

As of today, I will make a concerted effort to move all my communications OFF Skype.

Microsoft has bought Skype for $8 billion (odd). I’m not even going to go into the arguments and blah blah about how Microsoft will keep the product alive etc etc, since quite honestly there is no track record or reason to believe that they will keep Skype multi-platform.

Skype multi-platform support officially ended today, in the same way that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun/MySQL officially ended any kind of support for Oracle’s acquired Sun/MySQL products.

I’ve never really liked Google Talk, it’s UI was a bit dodgy, and not many people were on it. I predict that may change, and maybe Google Talk will heavily influence some of the way forward for IP telephony, but I don’t bargain on that, in the same way that I won’t bargain on any single vendor-based telephony platform ever again.

I also predict that the OpenSource community (or a risky venturer) will finally tie something together to make Skype obsolete using the business model that made Skype successful in the first place but without all the proprietary ugliness.

Skype’s advantage has been a nice captive market, and a proprietary protocol, and centralized registry, all of which has been obsoleted by a number of projects for a few years now. The only cause for lack of adoption behind alternative solutions has been momentum, and I’ve contributed to that “non-cause”.

The Skype platform has been dealt it’s  final death knoll today in the same way Nokia’s Windows Mobile strategy has signaled the dying gasp of an irrelevant platform.

I’ve been using Skype as my primary IM/Messaging/VOIP platform for years. It’s kinda hard to get the divorce procedure going, but I’ve got no issue doing it. I’ve one it before.  My switch from Yahoo!Messenger and MSN Messenger took a few years but in the end, it wasn’t that hard to do.

And let’s face it, how relevant is MSN Messenger or Yahoo/AOL IM these days ?

Long live open IP-based telecommunication.

Goodbye Skype. I won’t miss you.