Haven't really been around a whole lot this last week. Didn't do much coding either. Had Windows crash on me (like that's anything new) and went home to San Jose for the weekend. Hoping to return to coding tomorrow on the Aliez LCD client. It is coming along ok. I need to get the keypad wired in, since right now it uses ncurses, which sort of ugly and interferes with the regular printing of temporary debugging stuff.

Also need to do some work on my linked list stuff. Found out why the server was crashing after a client reconnects... my damn functions were deleting the "first" entry in the list. Not good. Revamped some stuff, but it isn't totally cured. Think it needs a pretty big rewrite so it is proper, rather than just a bunch of patches.

I think I've pretty much dropped the MySQL cddb server. Just the way it would be organized wouldn't be very efficient, and it puts a lot of work on the database.

Wow... my first post. I just signed up and I'm just getting the feel for the place. First time I've ever really been by Advogato, but I've read some people's diaries, so I decided to create my own.

One thing that has been on my mind lately has been the practicality of a MySQL-based cddb server. The present cddb server is a bit outdated, and its database is a little other. The main thing is, tables with 140000+ might get a little slow to search through, especially for a busy server. My tests so far have been with the freedb.org database, which I imported to MySQL, anyway, tests so far have been with phpMyAdmin. I think I'll hack up a quick C app to perform a query and see whether it hangs or how much cpu usages flies up.

Anyway... gotta sleep soon, got class in the morning...