If you've tried to import a Drupal database dump with the cache table data still intact, you've probably at one point or another run into a "max_allowed_packet" error coming from MySQL. An easy way to address this is to increase the setting in my.cnf.

About a year ago I hit this issue, and came across this helpful blog post that explained how to copy one of the default my-XXX.cnf files into MAMP. I thought it was real cute how these files talk about servers with 64M-128M of RAM as being "medium" so I copied my-large.cnf or something in, tweaked the setting, and went on with my day.

Lately though, I've been getting out of disk space messages, which I've always found puzzling, since 99.9% of what I do on this machine is Drupal. And hey, I know jQuery UI is pretty massive, and I have a few Drupal 7 checkouts laying around, but what the heck? :P I started deleting things like old VMs I wasn't using anymore. But finally today I was down to about 200MB (?!?).

If you sent me a personal e-mail in the past week, I no longer have it. >:\ Apparently either DreamHost or Thunderbird choked to death on the 20,262 e-mails I had waiting for me after I came back from vacation and thought it'd be an awesome idea to just give up and delete them all. THANKS. Thankfully, @lullabot.com goes somewhere else, so those are ok.

On a related note, anyone know of any decent e-mail providers? :P

Sigh. :(