Yay!

[altivo]

Gary took his GRE this afternoon, so he can quit fidgeting about it. Maybe he'll sleep tonight. His "instant" score results were more than good enough, I'm sure. So we went out for supper to a local place to celebrate that and his birthday, which is tomorrow.

I also solved some ongoing issues with communication between Linux and OpenVMS on the Alpha. One was really dumb and shouldn't be that way. VMS is not case-sensitive. Like MS-DOS, it accepts lower and upper case file names as equivalent. Likewise user names and even passwords. Linux, like UNIX, is case-sensitive almost everywhere. It turns out, unbeknownst to me, that MySQL on Linux is also case-sensitive. Usernames! SMITH and smith are not the same. The reason I could not open a session from a VMS client to a Linux MySQL server was just that. VMS transmits the username, even though it was typed in lower case, as upper case. MySQL thinks that is a different user and doesn't recognize it. Brute force solution? Register an upper case user on the Linux MySQL server, and associate it specifically with the OpenVMS host. Voila! Connectivity.

And now, in the interest of non-geeky diversity, have a couple of ponies.



One of my favorite photos of our two boys, Asher (left) and his half-brother Archie.

Farrier comes for all three tomorrow. Must be up early, so to bed.

Comments

[schnee]

Urgh. I don't mind case-insensitive systems that much, but they should be case-preserving, at least — it really should be an obvious part of good system design to not needlessly alter the user's input.

Cute photos, though. :)

And congrats to Gary!

[altivo]

Yeah, it gets pretty confusing. I didn't think this had been a problem in the past, but I applied nearly 20 patches to the operating system last week and one of them may have done it. Turns out you can get around it if you put the text in double quotes. Then it is left alone and passed as is.

[schnee]

Ah, that's good at least.

[schnee]

Oh, and a happy birthday to him, too. I totally missed that part, somehow.

The bleach boys

[frith]

Archie is telling Asher: "You play drums and I'll do the vocals to Wild Boys." Milk and Honey could play keyboard if you acquired that walk-on piano from FAO.

Re: The bleach boys

[altivo]

I'm not at all sure what the confidence being whispered was that day, but it's a cute photo all the same. They don't look much different now, though they are five years older.

[moonhare]

Congratulations, and a Happy Happy, to Gary!

Nice pony pic :o) Hope the farrier was fair to them.

[altivo]

Thanks, I'll pass that on.

Farrier is their previous owner, we bought them from him. They know him well and everyone gets along just fine. All three got a clean bill of health for their feet this time. He keeps complimenting me on how much Tess has improved, but I haven't done anything other than follow his advice and the vet's suggestions.

[casey382]

Happy birthday to Gary.

[altivo]

Thanks, I'll pass that on to him.