Archives for January, 2008

UDF median on Windows

  • Posted by jeff
  • January 30, 2008

On my current project we use MySQL as part of our stack and I needed to setup MySQL on my Windows XP workstation for development. A custom feature of the database is the use of a MySQL UDF (User Defined Function), discussed in depth here, here and lots of other places.

We had a pre-compiled Windows binary DLL available that did not work. Dan Moore told me… Read more »

VMware Host Time Synchronization

  • Posted by jeff
  • January 29, 2008

I have a Dell 2950 on which I installed Ubuntu Gutsy and VMware Server to host some applications for testing. The guest OS was CentOS 5 in an appliance put together by the folks running the Thoughtpolice web site. I found that the CentOS guest time was off and didn’t synchronize itself automagically as I expected. I didn’t notice the issue on my workstation which has a host… Read more »