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	<title>Dan Langille's Other Diary</title>
	<link>http://dan.langille.org</link>
	<description>He has another more popular diary.  This one is more general.</description>
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		<title>Pentabarf travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the start of a query for pulling out travel requirements for conference attendees.

SELECT P.last_name, P.first_name,
       CPT.arrival_from,
       CPT.arrival_to,
       CPT.need_accommodation
  FROM conference_person_travel CPT, conference_person CP, conference C, person P
 WHERE CPT.need_accommodation
   AND CPT.conference_person_id = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2012/01/21/pentabarf-travel/</link>
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		<title>memtestosx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just bought and downloaded memtestosx.  

Last login: Sun Jan  8 16:14:10 on ttys001
[dan@dent:~] $ /Volumes/memtest_422/memtest/memtest ; exit;

Memtest version 4.22 (64-bit)
Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only

NOTE: No command-line arguments have been specified
Using defaults: Test all available memory, one test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2012/01/08/memtestosx/</link>
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		<title>Pentabarf fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a very long effort, this is the solution:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION conflict.conflict_statistics(conference_id integer, OUT conflict_level text, OUT conflicts integer)
 RETURNS SETOF record
 LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $function$
#variable_conflict use_variable
  DECLARE
    conflict TEXT;
    conflict_rows INTEGER;
  BEGIN
    FOR conflict_level IN
      SELECT conflict_level.conflict_level FROM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/12/30/pentabarf-fix/</link>
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		<title>Such devious spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received this rather devious spam.  Invoke education, children, libraries, and hope that someone will link to their site.   I&#8217;m not sure *why* they want this particular site promoted.  There&#8217;s not much useful information there.  No attempt to sell anything.  I&#8217;m confused.
Perhaps this was legit.  But then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/10/06/such-devious-spam/</link>
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		<title>When is a cleaning tape needed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my magical Bacula website, I wanted to know when my tape drive required a cleaning tape.  It appears that smartctl will reveal this information:

[dan@kraken:/usr/home/dan] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/in/smartctl -d scsi -x /dev/nsa0
Password:
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Device: DEC      [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/06/20/when-is-a-cleaning-tape-needed/</link>
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		<title>ZFS details - just in case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use a ZFS array for backups.  The data is first copied to this array, and later copied to tape.  This post contains some information which might be useful should I need to replace one of the drives in the array.
We have 10 HDD in this system.
Two are used in a gmirror for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/05/31/zfs-details-just-in-case/</link>
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		<title>Bacula - Removing labels, then labeling tapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Bacula since 2004.  I started off on DDS tapes, then moved to DLT.  Now I&#8217;m backing up to a ZFS array and the copying to tape.
About a year ago, I obtained about 200 DLT tapes from a friend.  They were no longer used at his place of work. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/05/27/bacula-removing-labels-then-labeling-tapes/</link>
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		<title>PGCon 2011 begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PGCon 2011 has started.  The formal schedule says Tuesday, but people have already started to arrive in Ottawa and many more start their journeys today.
Late last week, there was another flurry of registrations coming in.  I saw some today.  I expect another peak on Monday as last minute decisions are made.
There have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/05/15/pgcon-2011-begins/</link>
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		<title>Bacula run-after scripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bacula is a backup and restore solution which I&#8217;ve been using and contributing to since 2004.  Recently, I started backing up to disk and then copying to tape later.  This approach, combined with a scratch pool, has proven to be very low maintenance, from a sysadmin point of view.  I think all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/05/15/bacula-run-after-scripts/</link>
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		<title>PGCon - we&#8217;re ready.  Are you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in Ottawa for a week now, preparing for both BSDCan 2011 and for PGCon 2011.  Pretty much everything is done.  The t-shirts are ordered.  The lanyards, tote bags, and Google goodies are ready to go.
The hard stuff is done.  What&#8217;s left is mostly logistics, coordination, timing, and organization.
And for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2011/05/06/pgcon-were-ready-are-you/</link>
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