Although PGCon 2011 is just 9 weeks away, that time will fly past. People will start gathering in Ottawa early in the week for the two days of tutorials followed by two days of talks. PGCon is also a social event, so there will be many opportunities to mingle and meet other members […]

Registration for PGCon 2011 has opened. The list of talks is impressive. You’ll find something there for everyone. Again this year, as every year, we bring together developers and users from all over the world to meet and to learn from each other. PGCon has a consistent history of providing high quality […]

The list of talks and speakers for PGCon 2011 has been released. For 2011, we once again have a strong collection of talks that will appeal to a wide range of attendees. Registration will open later this week. Be sure to start making your travel plans.
Of particular note is the excitement within […]

Links within events in Pentabarf are done like this:
[text](http://example.org/)

When exporting a Pentabarf schedule, your talks must be accepted and reconfirmed in order to appear on in the schedule. Not just accepted.
In this article, we assume your conference id = 7. Adjust to suit your situation.
This query gives you a list of the accepted talks:

SELECT event_id FROM event WHERE conference_id […]

On Saturday, I tweeted that the schedule for PGCon 2011 would be released. I was wrong. We are having a hard time choosing from amongst all the talks we have received. Choice is a fine problem to have, but we apologize for the delay.
All submitters have been emailed about this delay. […]

This was said by me on IRC today:

You say ‘ignoring a large user base’ as if there is something wrong with that.

PostgreSQL has a long history of not catering to the masses. This is what makes it such a great tool.

Only well thought out and well conceived features go into PostgreSQL.

And someone else said: […]

I’m sure you’ve had one of these moments:

ssh to a server
start a long running command
wanted to disconnect and go home
Oh Damn! I should have used screen!

I have long wanted such a tool Now there appears to be a solution.
reptyr seems to fit the bill. That URL also describes a few other tools:

screenify
retty

I’m […]

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting ready to copy Bacula backups from disk to tape, via a Copy Job. Tonight was my first attempt. I failed. And I think I know why. Concurrency.
The output so far:

*run job=CopyMegaFileToTape
Using Catalog “MyCatalog”
Run Copy job
JobName: CopyMegaFileToTape
Bootstrap: […]

I use pf on FreeBSD 8.1-stable as my firewall of choice. Recently I’ve started using the University of Alberta list of trapped addresses. As of the time of writing this, the list contains about 56,000 IP addresses. When combined with my own list of 27,000 SPAMTRAP addresses, I quick ran into a problem […]