MySQL performance comparison
As few properties here at Yahoo! started using MySQL 5.1, its time for me to dig into the performance comparison between 4.1 and 5.1; as a company wide we are[...]
Monthly Archive: October 2007
Is Yahoo Gaining on Google
I just read an article on Is Yahoo Gaining on Google and found it interesting. To some extent I am supporting that Yahoo! search results are getting better and better[...]
Comcast..what a embarassing
Today I tried to login to my Comcast online account from its first page to see the current bill; and I found that the password field is taking clear text[...]
IMAP to Exchange 2003 migration
Yesterday here at Yahoo my mail server was migrated to new Microsoft Exchange server 2003 from the earlier IMAP server. As usual all my mail clients (Linux Fetchmail/Procmail and Windows[...]
Google Checkout … status not updated
I just happen to purchase a USB charger along with screen protector for my iPhone and used my Google checkout account. And am bit surprised to see that one of[...]
MyISAM table incompatibility when upgrading to 5.1
When I have the following MyISAM table in MySQL 4.1 with no rows in the table, it works as expected. But the same table fails with an error “ERROR 1034[...]