Today was the first day of PGCon 2007. I sat in on the Performance tuturial. The room was overflowing, so we moved to a larger room. 58 people for a tutorial is pretty impressive. The connection to FreshPorts? I came up with an idea for solving the problem. Tonight gave me the opportunity. I invoked […]
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The much-anticipated X.org 7.2 commit has occurred. Unfortunately, the commit is causing a deadlock on FreshPorts. The error message I see is: [36978]: [1-1] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 ERROR: deadlock detected [1-2] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 DETAIL: Process 36978 waits for ShareLock on transaction 15047015; blocked by [1-3] process 37015. [1-4] Process 37015
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My work (yes, I’m now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They aren’t so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else. Our hardware needs: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Our hardware support needs: reliable
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The deadline for voting has passed. The Candidates | The Contest Details The table holding the results is: freshports.org=# \d design_results Table “public.design_results” Column | Type | Modifiers ———+————–+————————————————————- id | integer | not null default nextval(‘design_results_id_seq’::regclass) user_id | integer | not null choice1 | character(1) | not null choice2 | character(1) | not null
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Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this: Absolute BSD – $25 shipped – order yours now I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer/sysadmin.
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The candidates from the Design Contest are now available for review and voting. Vote early. Vote often. Enjoy.
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FreshSource has long has a tool for walking the source tree. By source tree, do not think src. Think ports, www, src, docs, everything that you can see through cvsweb. The screen shot you see is what FreshSource looks like on my laptop. I’m happy with this progress, which represents about two hours of work.
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One of the as yet unexploited capabilities of the FreshPorts database is the ability to watch non-ports. On the train from Ottawa to Montreal, as I was headed for the PHP Conference, I worked on creating notification reports for non-ports. It took about an hour, but I suceeded. The changes are not significant, and I
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Some of you will have noticed that we had a short outage on the FreshPorts webserver yesterday. It would have appeared as if the webserver was not responding. It was being slow. Very slow. The cause is interesting. When I checked the logs, it was my ad server that was busy. So busy that nobody
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The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.
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