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For a Project I had helped work on, they recently needed to move servers and in the process upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1.41. They ran into some quirks with 5.1 and I thought I would document our work-a-rounds for them. We were having serious performance problems with a Stored Procedure that would be …

An article posted on Slashdot just set me off today. Custom PC reports a quote from EA‘s CEO, John Riccitiello, about DRM & their recent games: ‘We implemented a form of DRM and it’s something that 99.8 per cent of users wouldn’t notice,’ claimed Riccitiello, ‘but for the other 0.2 percent, it became an issue …