LINUX LUNACY '03, September 13-20, 2003

Neil Bauman

This year's Linux Lunacy will be held on September 13-20, 2003 at Alaska's Inside Passage, sailing out of Seattle.

Here's your once-in-a-lifetime chance to
1) Hang with Linus Torvalds for a week,
2) Cruise to Alaska,
3) Learn the latest on MySQL, and
4) Take seminars with these Linux luminaries:
David Axmark*
Mick Bauer
Bruce Perens
Randal Schwartz
Doc Searls
Theodore Ts'o
Guido van Rossum

Conference details: http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html

Review of last year's event:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6419

* David Axmark, one of the founders of MySQL, writes MySQL code
and documentation and will be delivering a talk entitled "MySQL:
Yesterday and Today" on Linux Lunacy ...

"This talk with start with a short history of MySQL and then continue with a overview of the current MySQL functionality (version 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0). With these new features, MySQL has stared to enter the Enterprise Database arena.

Some of the new features and capabilities in these versions are:
* Query Cache for super fast return of repeated queries
* Row locking
* Versioning transaction engine as standard (InnoDB)
* Dynamic setting of configuration variables
* Subqueries
* Multiple character set support including Unicode
* OpenGIS including multi-dimensional indexes
* Embedded server library
* Multiple table update and delete
* Up to 400% speed up for some repeated selects
* Stored Procedures (following the ANSI-99 PSM standard)"