A workday between us

19:44 and the days are getting noticeably shorter. I stopped reading five minutes ago and been looking outside the room of my girlfriend’s room. Kids are playing near a school, the streets are mildly busy with people rushing home. Looking at my phone I’m somehow getting worried. I know my girlfriend has to work late, but it’s already later than that. I want to call her and ask if she’s alright.

Getting online in Poland using 3G

There are few mobile operators in Poland, but you got to watch a bit the prices and the bonuses you get. I went for Play Mobile (Polish only) for a 3G connection, and ERA (some English) for mobile phone (because my lovely girlfriend uses that). Play has some decent pre-paid ‘na Kartę’ solutions and have good coverage (I think they use ERA?). You can buy a starter package for only 19 PLN (4.

Disabling binary logging when restoring a MySQL dump

There is a cool option for mysqlbinlog for disabling the binary log when doing recovery using binary logs, namely --disable-log-bin. How, one would think it is also avialable for something like mysqldump or even the mysql CLI? Nope. There are various ways for doing this, here is one: $ (echo "SET SESSION SQL_LOG_BIN=0;"; cat dump.sql) > dump_nobinlog.sql Obviously, bit pain for really big files, and when dumping to multiple files.

EU Mobile operators suck

This is probably a bit against business.. but it is frustrating living in Europe where one still has to do Roaming moving over a border. Why isn’t it possible for Mobile operators to go EU wide? Whatever answer or excuse they have, there is probably just one reason: to suck money out of people. Right now I am going to be active in 3 countries (Germany, Belgium and Poland), and I need 3 mobile contracts to get decently online.