Tony Yarusso's Blog

So like we did for 7.10, with the 8.04 release of Ubuntu the Minnesota (USA) LoCo gathered contact information for various local media outlets, and I sent them all a note about the release, Ubuntu itself, and our release party. As a result, I actually got a response, from Jon Gordon of National Public Radio (NPR).

So I went to my Senate District's convention on Saturday, and while I was there had a chance to talk to a couple of politicians about OpenDocument in governement and open source in government and schools. While the responses were fairly predictable given the environment, I thought I'd share some of my observations.

So I attended my party's local caucus for the first time tonight, and in addition to concluding that our process is highly wacky and inefficient (and not making nearly enough use of electronic resources). However, in addition to that made use of the form provided on the back of our agendas for the purpose of submitting resolutions. I drafted one supporting the mandation of open standards for the file formats of government documents, such as is already law in Massachussetts, which was passed by my precinct (Minnesota's SD54P3).

So we're running into a somewhat perplexing issue on one of the servers at school right now. There have been a couple of power outages that brought the system down abruptly, and the servers are not very happy about it, particularly mysql. In order to get it to respond at all, we have to reinstall the mysql server. Meanwhile, I no longer know what version of mysql the existing databases were created with, and they can't be read by another version. Is there a way to determine the creating version for a mysql table that anyone knows of?