A bit late maybe, but I finally setup a new meeting: 29th of November.If you’re interested you can sign up to attend here: http://mysql.meetup.com/148/. If you don’t like to register with Meetup, then just let me know and I’ll sign you up for the meeting as guest. On the agenda: Get to know each other New stuff in MySQL 5.0/5.1 MySQL Enterprise: The WTH?-questions answered New storage engines- and more.

Author’s Note: Originally published October 2006, the following blog post is still relevant, but it is adviced to use the MySQL Yum Repositories for the latest Fedora Linux distirbutions. Maybe this is common knowledge by now, but I’ve seen this problem popping up at work and I’ve run into it today. I upgraded Fedora 4 to 5 and wanted to get MySQL 5.1.11 on it instead of the MySQL 5.0 delivered with Fedora 5.

Today I flew back from Milan (Italy) to Frankfurt Am Main (Germany). It’s a 50 minute flight, jumping over the Alps so to speak. However, after waiting for 1 hour for my second bag (backpack) I went to the desk to track it. “Sir, I just see here that it stayed in Milan and it will come with one of the next flights”, said the nice lady. Well that was something that never happened to me before.

I planned to stay 10 days off-line, but I got back earlier. So it was 7 days without internet, without mobile phone. The only communication with the outside world was through the good old postcards to family and friends. Ok, I send one email to say I was OK since there was a deadly accident in Rome in the metro when I arrived.. I never thought I would have visited this once mighty city so soon in my life, but there I was.

In my previous post I said I was for a couple of weeks living in Milan, Italy. It gives me the opportunity to travel around in Italy. I do everything by train and other common transport. I found it not expensive: for a ticket from Milan to Venice you pay like 24 EUR for 2nd class on the fastest train; even cheaper if you add like 30-40 minutes. Last Saturday (7 Oct 2006) I started off with Venice.