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We had a visitor on #mono today who needed help with his homework. It seems that Reggie is happy to have forgotten everything about using ODBC to connect to MySQL. I was curious and feeling helpful, so I figured it out.
Install the MySQL ODBC driver

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*whew* I did a bunch of things yesterday. We took our kindergärtner to her first Friday at her new school (and were about 10 minutes tardy. oops). We then took our toddler to a nearby playground with swings and slides and let her expend some energy. After she had ( Read more... )

Oh well. Anyway...

I went to LinuxFest Northwest yesterday with fuzzyredmittens and scarletwilde. I hung out at the Mono Project table and gave away some books and t-shirts that Miguel sent over for the occasion. Coincidentally, the Mono Project booth was set up right next to the MySQL booth, which was manned by none other than Gerry and a couple of his kiddos. Gerry ( Read more... )

cjcollier@norseth:~/Desktop$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3

Time to return the computer to MySQL

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/UnitedDrugs-UserReport-2006.pdf

http://freecycle.colliertech.org/

Web interface to my freecycle archives. Still in pre-alpha, but I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it in this state

If I were to make a presentation for the SCTG about MySQL, what should I present about?

http://www.frappr.com/mysqlusers/map

I'm pretty excited about this event, and I'm really disappointed that I'm not going to be able to go. :(

http://mysqluc.com/

Tim, I really will meet you in person one of these days...

Hey, look! LinuxQuestions.org did a poll and it turns out that lots of GNU/Linux users like MySQL :)

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=30709&src=site-marq