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Trent 'Lathiat' Lloyd (トレント)
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| At Linux.conf.au 2009 and starting on Planet MySQL |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
Greetings Planet MySQL readers,
I am new to Planet MySQL.. so I thought I should introduce myself.
I am Trent Lloyd (some may know me online as 'lathiat'), based in Perth, Western Australia and presently working for Sun Microsystems as a MySQL Support Engineer providing support to Sun's MySQL customers. I have been with Sun for 12 months, and previous to that was working for MySQL AB before it was acquired for 8 months. My background before that is in the ISP industry working for HostAway in a combination System/Network administration and support role.
I have also given a number of papers, often related to either Avahi or IPv6 at a few conferences.. mainly Linux.conf.au - you can view them on my web-site www.lathiat.net.
I have an open-source/free-software community background.. I co-authored Avahi (a mDNS/DNS-SD/Link-Local IP stack for Linux and other *nixes) with Lennart Poeterring and dabbled my hand in the likes of the Ubuntu MOTU and GNOME communities.
Working in the MySQL Support Team, and having a very large customer base to source problems from, we run into many problems and gotcha's on our customer systems which people don't hit every day but are very difficult to track down when you do. I hope that by sharing some of these experiences
With that introduction out of the way, I have just landed in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia to attend linux.conf.au (which was a very last minute arrangement). I have attended this conference every year since 2003 (thats 7 of them!), it's always great and I am glad I am able to attend again.
I am sitting at the "Open Source Databases" mini-conference which has a strong MySQL presence. There are quite a few Sun folk here, which is fantastic - unfortunately a few others were unable to make it but it should be great never the less.
I will be bringing you more Linux.conf.au updates throughout the week and MySQL tips into the future! |
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| Avahi is now 3 years old... |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|03:07 pm] |
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| | Linkin Park - No More Sorrow | ] |
I just noticed that as of a few days ago (22nd August) - Avahi is now 3 years old.
Heres my original release announcement:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2005-August/000227.html
That's a crazy amount of time, since then I presented at Linux.conf.au 2006 and GUADEC 2007 (Birmingham) as well as some presentations at GNOME mini-confs and the like.
Fun and games... also for anyone following this blog, I regularly twitter as lathiat
http://twitter.com/lathiat
Feel free to follow me, but it tends to be more personal stuff rather than Tech/Open-Source related |
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| Macbook broken. again. |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|06:30 am] |
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Dear World,
Please remind me why I bought a mac?
Love,
Trent
[i was typing away the other day and *blip* my backlight stopped working, permanently, seriously, wtf.] |
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| Traveling to sydney... |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|09:44 am] |
Howdy all,
I will be traveling to Sydney on Sunday the 20th and 21st - if you're in sydney and want to catch up for a beer or something let me know.
Only timeslot will be Sunday (20th) afternoon as I fly out Monday night (21st)
- lathiat |
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| Joining sun... |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|09:55 pm] |
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As most of you reading this are likely aware, I work as a Support Engineer for MySQL AB - which was recently acquired by Sun Microsystems.
If you have been living under some variety of rock-like object, you can see the press release here:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun/
As part of that, as of this month I now work for Sun Microsystems Australia.
Trent Lloyd
MySQL Support Engineer
Sun Microsystems
However I am really doing the same job I was before.. so far the acquisition seems to have gone fairly positively. I was a little concerned about some of the employment/IP restrictions that our new fangled contracts bring but in the end I was able to sort out enough to satisfy me.
I am still working from Home, and there are no plans (at least for me) to move around within Sun - I plan to continue my role as MySQL Support Engineer.
I really hope this acquisition is beneficial for MySQL in the long run.. there are potential ups and downs but so far for me the experience has been very positive and the Sun team have been very welcoming.
The MySQL Users Conference is upon us this week, which means there will likely to be some interesting announcements from various MySQL-related companies as tends to be the case around major conferences (there are already some talk of a new product from "Kickfire" that sounds interesting, albeit sketchy at this stage)
In more personal news, they sold the house I am renting so I have to move. For more amusement Aleesha is over-seas until after I have to move so I have to move before she gets back, oh well. I applied for a house today and the Property Manager seemed very enthusiastic so I guess thats a good sign.
It's a very nice 3x2 townhouse:
http://gallery.mac.com/lathiat#100525&bgcolor=black&view=grid
It's also only a couple hundred meters from the local telephone exchange, so ADSL2+ speeds should be fairly flat (24/1 M) which will be nice :)
To follow me closer, check out my twitter: twitter.com/lathiat |
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