innodb_stats_sample_pages to save a day

i’ve run into nasty instability in mysql’s query execution plan joining few tables with 10s of millions of rows. mysql 5.1’s innodb_stats_sample_pages seem to solve the problem.

opera mini 6 + rss feed

opera mini is a great mobile web browser. new release just got out; yet rss [quite an important features for me] seems to be a sort of neglected functionality. here’s how to get it to work in v6.

darwinian theory of beauty

darwinian theory of beauty http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html toward a psychology of business http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tzyrxdca-Y

andalucia/algarve/extramedura

seem that it is my yearly routine. i was in spain/portugal for 2 weeks visiting places i know and discovering some new ones. all in march 2011.

The Brain: A Secret History

by Michael Mosley mind control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvKQAYQT0bE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcWcLxeQ48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v30ZEGH9uGk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBcP34W_ec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9D64_nfkA emotions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjlC91QmoNY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ltcqZUd9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3L_Qt_GU8 broken brains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_r8qdKASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQrOcV14iE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6e5upTJAA

[pl] grzegorz braun – co z ta polska; tomasz turowski

grzegorz braun – co z ta polska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJeXq3bbDs4 warto rozmawiac – tomasz turowski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdh9jPYH74 + piotr jedlinski o tomaszu turowskim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNJOGm4b_R4 + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n395EoQcx5g

how tv ruined your life

s01e01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SiOYZmz7I s01e02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wSbXEDzHHY s01e03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6L5S14ygY s01e04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjF932SFoCc s01e05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdgkF_cMmU s01e06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faqpDw43ccg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aq0tnwEoM

intel x-25m ssd problems under linux

i got my hands on INTEL SSDSA2M120G2GC disk. read performance was perfect but during writes it was throwing kernel errors left and right: