I got this unexpected windfall this week (a check from an old job that I forgot about), and honestly, one of the first things I thought about when I got it was, “Oh, good, I can pay my rent early.”
Something has obviously gone horribly wrong.
I think I need to go buy a framed poster of Small Soldiers or something to make up for it.
Filed under General
I updated the mplayer and dvdnav ebuilds in my small overlay, and added one for dvdread now, which has been split into a separate package. I haven’t had time in the past while to keep an eye on what’s been going on, but I do know that the heavy flurry of development has stopped, and that the installer works better. Plus, the software works fine for me. 
My overlay isn’t in layman right now, so if you want to check it out, here’s the skinny:
Have fun and lemme know if there’s any problems.
If, like me, you don’t trust your ISP’s nameservers to be patched and working correctly (or for them to sell you out to advertisers by redirecting broken links or whatever), then here’s a quick solution to setting up your box to use OpenDNS servers instead.
Using this assumes three things though:
Anything besides that, you’ll just have to figure it out yourself, though the commands should be close. BTW, someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Add this to /etc/conf.d/net:
dhcp_eth0=”nodns”
dns_servers_eth0=”208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220″
If eth0 is not your primary NIC, then you’d have to change that.
Then just restart net.eth0 (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart) and you should see this in /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
Filed under Gentoo
I’ve been job hunting, and while my dream job would be somewhere that uses PostgreSQL, I am having an extremely hard time finding anyone that uses it. So, I think my chances might be better actually getting a company to convert to using it instead. In doing that, I’ve started outlining a draft of a paper that I can present to both lead programmers, database administrators, and management on the pros of using PostgreSQL over MySQL. If anyone has some ideas that I could add in, I would appreciate it.
Here’s the general principles I already plan on covering: foreign key support, data types, transactions, shell interface, ANSI SQL support, table types, general features, history, licensing, abstraction layers (using PHP).
Also, and I don’t mean to sound like I’m spreading FUD, but it occurred to me this morning that I’ve never heard anyone say that MySQL is better than PostgreSQL.
Anyway, ideas welcome. I’ll post my progress as I get the paper put together. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.
Filed under Databases
