PGCon 2009 Schedule released

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Mar 162009
 

The preliminary PGCon 2009 schedule has been released.

PGCon is the premiere PostgreSQL conference. It is simply the best place to meet other PostgreSQL people and learn more. The talks are absolutely amazing, not to mention the great social atmosphere.

If you’re looking to hire any PostgreSQL talent, PGCon is the place to be. You’ll find more PostgreSQL people (DBAs, coders, web developers, core contributers) than at any other conference. If you’re looking for a PostgreSQL job, bring your resume!

If you are a PostgreSQL hacker or would like to be one, PGCon will have more committers and major contributors present than any other conference. Tom Lane will be giving a special talk on how to get your patches accepted.

If you’re a PostgreSQL user, this year’s conference includes more user content than ever before: 6 DBA technique sessions, 5 performance and scaling sessions and 6 talks on new 8.4 features. Take a look at the DBA track.

Plus four tutorials.

The full schedule is at http://www.pgcon.org/2009/schedule/.

Please start making your travel plans now.

Sponsorships are available for companies who want to be a part of the event and send their staff to learn more about PostgreSQL.

Moving my PGP from Windows to KDE

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Mar 152009
 

I found my old PGP key today. I haven’t used it in quite some time. But there it was, on my Windows machine: secring.skr

I use Thunderbird on FreeBSD, under KDE. I see I need to install mail/enigmail if I want to use PGP (well, the GnuPG implementation of PGP).

This appears to be my slippery slope.

First, I encountered this:

[dan@laptop:/usr/ports/mail/enigmail] $ sudo make install clean
Password:
=> enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://mozdev.secsup.org/enigmail/src/.
fetch: http://mozdev.secsup.org/enigmail/src/enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz: Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from http://downloads.us-east3.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/.
fetch: http://downloads.us-east3.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch from http://mozdev.oregonstate.edu/enigmail/src/.
enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz 100% of 394 kB 949 kBps
=> ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://mozdev.secsup.org/enigmail/src/.
fetch: http://mozdev.secsup.org/enigmail/src/ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz: Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from http://downloads.us-east3.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/.
fetch: http://downloads.us-east3.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch from http://mozdev.oregonstate.edu/enigmail/src/.
ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz 100% of 100 kB 340 kBps
===> Extracting for enigmail-0.93.0_7
=> MD5 Checksum OK for enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for enigmail-0.93.0.tar.gz.
=> MD5 Checksum OK for ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for ipc-1.1.3.tar.gz.
===> enigmail-0.93.0_7 depends on file: /nonexistent – not found
===> Verifying configure for /nonexistent in /usr/ports/www/mozilla
===> mozilla-1.7.13_10,2 is marked as broken: Does not compile with GCC 4.2.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/mozilla.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/enigmail.
[dan@laptop:/usr/ports/mail/enigmail] $ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: amd64-undermydesk-freebsd

OK, let’s install lang/gcc44 and see where that goes. :)

After that, I’ll have to learn how, and if, my old key can be used with this new setup. I have been using it under Windows with Pegasus.

Snow. Mold. Work.

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Mar 022009
 

It is snowing in much of the north east of USA today. A few flakes were coming down by the time I arrived home at about 9PM on Sunday night, but there was no accumulation. By the time I went to bed at about midnight, the cars next to mine were covered but the Subaru had barely anything on it. My parking spot is more exposed to the wind, so less snow settled there.

This morning the neighbourhood kids were out in the snow for a little while. It was roughly 20F (-6C) outside, with a nice even dump of lovely white snow. The white was bitter, but that didn’t stop the kids from sliding down the hill into the catchment basin.

I can see County Line Road from my house. There was very little traffic when I checked about noon. That’s when I decided to venture out and introduce the new Subaru to snow. It’s been covered in snow before, but that was while I was up in Ottawa in mid-March. It handled the snow as I expected and didn’t have any problems anywhere.

On Sunday, I’d been helping a friend diagnose a leaking modly ceiling. The conclusion, after taking photos and showing them to the crowd at Home Depot: leaking sewer vent pipe. Shove the pipe up a bit, so the horizontal section drains better. Put silicon around the joints of the corner sections of the pipe. Cut out the drywall from the ceiling. Replace cut section. Spackle. Paint. Etc. We bought all the materials and will attempt the repairs another day.

I’m still looking for work. Today is the start of week 5. Yes, 4 weeks ago right now, I was packing up my cube. Even being out of work is a full time job. I’m looking through the web, contacting people, interviewing, and catching up on previously ignored but vital chores.

I have a whole bunch of stuff to put on eBay. Some of it has been waiting for over a year. I’ll see to that as soon as I get home. :)