I’m really very impressed with the speed at which the Openfount guys responded to my last post. I definitely give Kudos to Bill for being on top of things! I’m running out the door so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
He’s right, I did generalize databases into InnoDB, but thats because it’s what I use. So my apologies for that.
I definitely had no intention of badmouthing the Openfount guys (if thats what it sounded like I did, I apologize) Just reporting what I saw, and my impressions.
The Bill – I would have either used
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I mentioned a while back that I was going to be playing with the S3 Infinidisk Product. What I found in my testing was that this product is not prime time ready. There was a nasty bug which caused data to be lost if the mv command was used. The scripts themselves were unintuitive. They required fancy-pants nohupping or screening to use long term. Oh, and a database definitely will not work on top of this FS. It seems obvious in retrospect, but I wanted to be sure. InnoDB wont even build its initial files much less operated on the FS. To top it all off, My pre-sales support question was never even so much as acknowledged.
No, I think I’ll be leaving this product alone for now and sticking with clever uses of s3sync and s3cmd, thanks.
I’ve been working very hard (and very constantly) lately, and as is the case with most technical creators this means that the blog has suffered a lack of posts recently. This is an attempt not to make up for that, but to fill in the gap with a bit of noise. I like to think of my blog as a high “signal to noise” ratio kinda place, but desperate times call for desperate measures, right. I don’t want you all to think I’ve forgotten you. Actually the first thing I’ve got it solely about you, “the reader” (whoever you are.)
Does anybody know of a WP plugin which allows users to suggest topics. I love writing, and thinking about problems, but often times I’m far too busy solving lots of problems that I can’t talk about to come up with all new problems to talk about 
(damn NDA’s.) I would like to encourage a steady stream of ideas from readers, and potential readers. That doesn’t mean I would actually tackle everything suggested, but it would definitely help me out for those times when my “muse” has left me.
It strikes me that a shout box might be exactly what the doctor ordered here. I’ll try and remember later on to look for one. (preferably with some sort of history, or even an e-mail notification function.) If those aren’t extant building them in would be pretty easy, I’ll try and pick a decent SB and contribute a patch back.
Another reason for my lack of signal lately is that I’ve finally manage to contract one of the contagious illnesses that my wife brings home. It’s not her fault, mind you, shes an educational professional working with small children so the random viruses flying around are a part of the package. On the flip side she gets to put up with me being awak at all hours of the night when I get inspiration on how to solve some problem she doesn’t care in the slightest about. So it’s a two way street here 
But this one has really sunk its teeth into me. Normally I can work through colds, and the like, (I’ve even been known to work through flu’s without so much as a complaint) But this time combination with other pressures in my life gave it an opening. It took full advantage. Phew!