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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   What do you consider the problem? Let's say government growing out of bound (and government's power growing compared to an individual's power) is a problem. One way to curb that growth is to slow down the functioning of government. But if
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   If you're in the US, pixelcort, may I invite you to consider the Downsize DC effort? ( http://www.downsizedc.org/ ) Here is a quick summary of what DownsizeDC.org is about: We believe the federal government has grown too centralized, too i
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   Thank you. I dropped out in the 11th grade (went to college) which explains why I missed civics in the 12th. (I went to school in California.) I caught up recently by drilling my Aussie wife for her US Citizen civics test - she learned al
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   I attended school in USA grades 7 - 11 and I did not have a civics class. Is civics part of the standard curriculum?
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   Re mass data imports - Postgres offers parallel restore of dumps since version 8.4: (Quoting the documentation for pg_restore): -j number-of-jobs --jobs=number-of-jobs Run the most time-consuming parts of pg_restore — those which load data,
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   PostgreSQL today has synchronous and asynchronous master/slave replication built in. The dev team is working on master/master replication (or peer-to-peer, as you called it).
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   Yes, formally. You don't have to specify -z in GNU tar today, you can just say -x and it'll add -z or -j for you -- it figures out on the fly if the archive's been compressed and how. Very convenient.
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   Thank you, ersii. I was wondering why my karma ticked down.
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   by atsaloli 14y ago

   Wealth redistribution in action.
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    You can protect against design errors through formal logic verification of the model. Www.spinroot.com
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Redistribution of wealth is incompatible with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It violates my liberty when my wealth is taken away by force. Wealth redistribution is morally hazardous to the recipients, getting something without earnin
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    You may find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_management_system#Hist... informative
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Stalin was having dinner with the party elite one night. Suddenly he clutches his chest, grunts, and collapses on the table. Everybody is quiet. A minute goes by. One of the men then yells out, "Yes! He is dead!" Stalin slowly gets up
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    "When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit to the glories of love. When evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust stat
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Aye. This is getting over my head, so I inquired on the pgsql-general list (which is amazingly helpful). Ian Barwick writes how to put all the prep stuff into a psql script, then all you have to do is define your query and invoke the scrip
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Donating time (my labor) and money to effective non-profit organizations that promote human rights. Endeavoring to improve myself so I can do more to help others. Encouraging others to get active.
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    You are most welcome!
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    The wrong thing to do is nothing. I encourage you to work out what you could do that could help this situation, anything, and do it.
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Yeah, gnuplot is a very powerful tool. I imagine you could put it all into a user-defined postgresql function, so all you have to say is: graph(select * from example);
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    I'd recommend "The Accidental DBA" (or, Administering PostgreSQL When It's Not Your Job). You can find it here: http://www.pgexperts.com/presentations.html
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Here is an example of feeding query output into gnuplot without leaving psql: # psql -U postgres psql (8.4.15) Type "help" for help. postgres=# \t Showing only tuples. postgres=# \a Output format is unaligned. postgres=#
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Thanks!
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    What do you replace Excel with?
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Wow! Postgres, JPG, PNG, TIFF, "The Only Coke Machine on the Internet", and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_(computer_scientist)
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Right on, thanks.
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    How do you know env is in /usr/bin rather than in /bin or /usr/local/bin? I'm just curious...
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    The current state of the "mental health" profession/field includes suffocating patients in attachment therapy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Newmaker ), fraud ( http://www.justice.gov/usao/lae/news/2010/2010_08_19_maria_c... ), and
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    I would have thought www.swebok.org (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) represents some consensus on what is good in programming?
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Can you tell us more about this problem of client application deployment, please? I work with CFEngine quite a bit and it can deploy server and client components. What issues are you running into?
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    by atsaloli 14y ago

    Email sajobs@lists.lopsa.org LOPSA is a professional association by and for system administrators.