brad's life

Some do not know the difference between the World Wide Web (a.k.a. applications and servers supporting the hypertext transport protocol) and the Internet (a.k.a. applications and servers supporting TCP/IP network protocols).

It is thus with great pride that I present the new term: InterWeb. It is for the great unwashed masses who couldn't be fucked to figure out the difference between a car and a road anyway. [source]

Heh. I'm a sucker for funny analogies. I think that's why I'm enjoying all of Neal Stephenson's stuff. He's good with amusing analogies.

I bought a MySQL support contract again, since I like to support those guys, and I've had dozens of hard questions piling up to which I couldn't find answers anywhere.

I'm so glad I did.

I've gone back and forth with them all night and I feel like my head is about to explode out of excitement for all the new stuff I've learned.

And for the first time in a week or so, I'm energetic and happy. It's all about learning. Too much repetitive crap and I get into slumpy bored mode.

I have so many ideas now. I feel like I could stay up all night working on them, but I should sleep.

I'll be writing up summaries of everything later.

I just went to microwave a muffin and there was already one in there. (And here I'd thought I just ate the last one really quick...)

Microsoft has a cool API called Address Windowing Extensions which lets applications break the 3/3.5GB barrier and address up to 64GB of RAM when the OS is in PAE mode. MySQL-InnoDB supports this API on Windows.

Does anybody know if a similar API exists in any state for Linux or FreeBSD? UnixWare does.