January, 22, 2005 archives

house of flying daggers is not nearly as good as hero. the sound design is brilliant, though.

i know that the cool thing to do is to ditch your wired phone and go wireless, but i’ve gone the other route and cancelled my cell service. i’ll be selling the handset for $65. i’ll probably end up picking up a pre-paid cell phone somewhere along the line.

i’m tempted to cancel my normal phone service as well, and just rely on my work voip phone, but that probably wouldn’t be appreciated. i need to look into solutions like the sipura spa-2000 that would apparently let me connect to the work voip service and another voip service like voicepulse and treat them as two analog lines. i’d be more excited about it if i used my phone at all. as it is, i rarely pay anything other than the basic monthly rate for my phone service, so switching to voip would basically be a wash. (and actually a loss, once you factor in the activiation fee and equipment.)

phone companies (cell, voip, or otherwise) need a “hermit” level of service where you pay more in per-minute charges, but the monthly fees are minimal.

something i measured a week or two ago is how long it took to build mysql 5.0 on my new development box (on linux). mainly i was measuring to see if it mattered whether i redirected the output to /dev/null, a file, or just let it fly by on the terminal window. it turns out that didn’t make a different at all. doing a full ./BUILD/compile-amd64-debug-max on my machine, with a populated ccache, takes about seven minutes (without ccache, it takes a little over fifteen minutes). just doing the configuration part (the -c flag to the build script) takes a minute and a half.

i have to admit i was a little disappointed by these times, i was hoping for faster. but then i compile on some of our regular build machines, and i am happy. some of those are painfully slow.