PGCon 2012 schedule released
The list of talks and speakers for PGCon 2012 has been released. For 2012, we once again have a strong collection of talks that will appeal to a wide range of attendees.
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The list of talks and speakers for PGCon 2012 has been released. For 2012, we once again have a strong collection of talks that will appeal to a wide range of attendees.
PGCon 2012 schedule released Read More »
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 = CP.conference_person_id AND P.person_id = CP.person_id AND CP.conference_id = C.conference_id AND C.acronym = ‘BSDCan2012’
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 pass, no logfile Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) running in multiuser mode Memory
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 conflict.conflict_level WHERE conflict_level.conflict_level ‘silent’ ORDER BY rank LOOP conflicts = 0; FOR conflict IN SELECT conference_phase_conflict.conflict FROM conflict.conference_phase_conflict INNER JOIN conference ON ( conference.conference_id = conference_id AND conference.conference_phase = conference_phase_conflict.conference_phase )
Today I received this rather devious spam. Invoke education, children, libraries, and hope that someone will link to their site. I’m not sure *why* they want this particular site promoted. There’s not much useful information there. No attempt to sell anything. I’m confused. Perhaps this was legit. But then, if you search for certain phrases contained in this email, you’ll see other such posts. I’m certain it’s spam. By, the way, I’ve amended
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 TZ89 (C) DEC Version: 2561 Serial number: CXA02S1766 Device type: tape Local Time is: Tue Jun 21 00:22:26 2011
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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 the base OS: ada8 ada9 Seven are active in an array: ada0 ada2 ada3 ada4 ada5 ada6 ada07
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I have been using Bacula since 2004. I started off on DDS tapes, then moved to DLT. Now I’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. He used Bacula and had written lots of 1s and 0s to the tapes to erase them. However, they still
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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 been a few requests for a group trip to Burger Works, Haveli, and Royal Thai for dinner. We’ll definitely
Bacula is a backup and restore solution which I’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 sysadmin will agree: the less you have to do, the better. At this time of year, I’m away running BSDCan and
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