Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with computers since I read an Elementary Electronics magazine way back in the 1970s. I started contributing to open source projects in 1998. After that, I gradually moved from being a software developer to being a systems administrator.

Incorrect bind column causes HY093

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been learning more about XSL, Javascript, and CSS. Along the way, I’ve been doing much more work with PDO. Yesterday I encountered a 501: Internal Server Error which had me stumped until this morning. The SQL was something like this: INSERT INTO mybconfig.keys (key_name, key_type_id) VALUES ( :key_name, :key_id_type )’ Upon calling execute(), the exception thrown was similar to this: 501: Internal Server Error Description: The server […]

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PGCon 2009 Schedule released

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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

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Moving my PGP from Windows to KDE

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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

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Snow. Mold. Work.

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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

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For the weekend

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There are a few random tasks (in addition to my big list of things to do) that I’d like to tackle over the weekend: Start regression testing Bacula on 7.x – Done Send out a BSDCan letter of invitation – Done Complete that application for security clearance – Hmm, partly done…. just need the vehicle details – Done take the patches from wxs for Bacula and feed them upstream – Done Adjust the

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