Although Murphy didn't want it to happen (there has been a power outage at the testing center, which resulted in a fried core switch, and there  was no spare switch of the same type), I passed the MySQL 5.0 DBA II exam today.

There is a bug in the Joomla 1.5 template called 'JA_Purity', which causes an error like this: Fatal error: Call to a member function getItems() on a non-object in /***/templates/ja_purity/ja_menus/Base.class.php on line 32.

This is what you get when you put a Micro$oft booth at LinuxWorld:

Finally found a better solution for accessing .cue / .bin files on Linux than converting them to ISO: cdemu.

I just installed a fresh WinXP virtual host on kvm on my Gentoo system. It didn't allow me to use the maximum resolution that my monitor supports (1440x900). So I started reading the kvm manual page, and found the --std-vga option. After restarting my WinXP machine with this option, Windows was unable to find a driver for the graphics card. Too bad ...