Of course, you know that “good things” and “MySQL” don’t go together. File this one under the category of “small ways in which MySQL is broken”. Let’s fire up MySQL 5.1.72-2-log or 5.5.34-log. [code]mysql> create temporary table blah -> (alpha datetime, beta datetime); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql> describe blah; +——-+———-+——+—–+———+——-+ | […]

GitHub repo: https://github.com/erjiang/tuntuntun (proof of concept status) I was trying to play Minecraft by tethering over a Sprint data connection but was having awful random latency and dropped packets. The Sprint hotspot seems to only allow a limited number of connections to utilize the bandwidth at a time – a download in Chrome would sometimes […]