Many know that my son has been helping administrate a Minecraft server. This server has enough people, that administrating the server means working at the Linux prompt level, looking at top output, editing configuration files, restarting application processes when the watchdog process fails, etc. He also deals with the end users, helping them use the…
An impressive number of registrations over the past few days has prompted us to extend early bird pricing through Monday, March 4th. Save as much as $75 over at-the-door pricing by registering before 11:59pm Monday evening! If you’re visiting Seattle from out of town, don’t forget to make your hotel reservations by phone and be…
The early-bird discount ends next Thursday. Are you registered yet? Now is an excellent time do do so!
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=# f ‘ ‘ Field separator is ” “. postgres=# select * from example; 1 1 2 2 3 3 4…
The moment you've all been waiting for is here! Registration for the 2013 Cascadia IT Conference is now open! The schedules for tutorials and technical sessions are posted. Full descriptions of all the tech talks will be posted in the next few days. Please share the news with anyone you think might be interested.
Getting an strace sample programmatically (non-interactively): dynamically attaching to a running process and detaching from it 10 seconds later. May be used to check if a process is hung, or what is it doing? #!/bin/sh … rm -rf strace.out strace -o strace.out -p $PID & sleep 10 pkill -int strace # send SIGINT…
The tutorial slate has been announced. Technical presentations have been selected (and submitters notified). Registration will be opening and full schedule will be posted in the next few days.
[I wrote this for our developers to help them get on IRC.] You can get support from the open source community over IRC (Internet Relay Chat), live text-based group chat. I installed the “irssi” package from the RPMforge repository to get on IRC. Using IRC ======= Start irssi: irssi Connect to the Freenode IRC network,…
Postgres 9.2 includes a very handy pg_stat_statements shared library and extension which allows immediate insight into query performance. Installation: ———— 1. Add to postgresql.conf: shared_preload_libraries = ‘pg_stat_statements’ 2. Restart PostgreSQL. 3. Run create extension pg_stat_statements; to have access to the statistics and the helper functions. Use — — reset statistics select pg_stat_statements_reset(); — which query…
The deadlines are fast approaching to submit your talk proposals for Cascadia IT Conference 2013. No paper is needed – this is a smaller regional conference and an excellent opportunity to hone your talk for LISA. http://casitconf.org/casitconf13/cfp/ On what should you present? By far the easiest thing is something you've been working on already. It…