Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-15 Thread Tony Whitmore
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:17:09 +0100, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: For those that attended the Hants LUG meeting at Hursley on Saturday I would appreciate feedback on how the day went. Things that went well Things that could have been done better This should help improve any further

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, Does ID3 tagging support multiple tags of the same type? I don't think I've ever seen it and I'm not sure it can be done. Cheers, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Leo li...@fractal.me.uk Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:45:55 To: Hampshire LUG

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Leo wrote: Sean Gibbins wrote: Hi Leo Please could you give examples of them? I think you may be missing something with regard to all of them, but without a specific example to work through it's difficult to be sure. With the first one I have not experienced issues with 'various

Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

2009-09-15 Thread Stuart Sears
On 15/09/09 09:38, Paul Stimpson wrote: Hi, Does ID3 tagging support multiple tags of the same type? I don't think I've ever seen it and I'm not sure it can be done. No, but vorbis comments, which both flac and ogg use, allow multiple tags with the same title. In general, players will return

[Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Simmonds
Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and be brought back on line again without impacting the others. The amount

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Lambert, Tony
Have you thought about the in-memory databases that can do this ? OSS ones don't come straight to mind, but I know Oracle times ten can do this. Alternatively clustering mysql should be something to look at, but if it's anything like Oracle RAC, it can get a bit messy. HTH - Tony Lambert

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Chris Simmonds ch...@2net.co.uk wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/09/09 17:15, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and be brought back on line

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 18:30:01 John Cooper wrote: On 15/09/09 17:15, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:15:18 +0100 (+0100), Chris Simmonds wrote: One option I have considered is using, say, MySQL with one master node replicating to all the others and some mechanism to elect a new master if the original went down. But, that sounds messy. There must be a neater

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Adrian Bridgett adr...@smop.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:15:18 +0100 (+0100), Chris Simmonds wrote: One option I have considered is using, say, MySQL with one master node replicating to all the others and some mechanism to elect a new master if the

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 20:17:56 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: I thought the OP wanted to make the data available over 50 nodes! DRBD can only have two simultaneous primaries. Ah yes, I was taking that as meaning that it needed to withstand failure of a (master) node, but still be

Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-15 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/15 Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:17:09 +0100, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: For those that attended the Hants LUG meeting at Hursley on Saturday I would appreciate feedback on how the day went. Things that went well Things that could have been