Apparently two people way at the bottom actually got it. Good for them.

... but I think I want Valleywag to summarize my employer's next quarterly earning report for me. They did such a good job with Google'sNo, really. Did you listen to it? Right. So, but if you had, you would understand. I'm sure it's still archived online, but I can't be bothered to go fish for a link. I could give you my employer's, but it's way ( Read more... )

It pains me to write this.

Has anybody ever done backups for Apache Lucene? (In particular, Solr, though I've no reason to believe that means anthing special for backup/recovery.) What did you do to do that, in broad strokes?

Note that I'm interested in responses in accordance with jwz's rules here. I do not want to know what you think might work ( Read more... )

The NetBSD flamewars are tired, and don't get me started on my local LUG, but this shit has got the lulz that just don't quit.

I especially like the image on the second post:


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My local NPR affiliate (well, the one that runs mostly news, which is what I care about, rather than publicly-funded music programming, of which there are several others) is WHYY. I give them $120 every time they beg for it, which used to be two but is now three times a year. The solid moral argument behind this is that I'd spend a lot more than ( Read more... )

An afternoon of unpacking and breaking down boxes, moving computers I want to keep (to eBay later) to the basement, moving computers I want to recycle responsibly near the front door, and breaking down a bunch of boxes means the pool room is finally free of detritus ( Read more... )

Cf.

I dropped three movies in the mailbox at the same time.

The one, which I reported mislabeled as described in the referenced post, with the Swordfish sleeve and the Apocalypto content, as well as two others. Netflix has reported the other two "received" and generated "For Fri:" emails based on them. The one that was never what I asked for? It' ( Read more... )

PostgreSQL's pg_dump[all] commands always output to STDOUT. Their man pages laud this as a great idea: you can do whatever you want with the output data, including piping it to something that reformats it. Good for them. That's exactly half the utility I wanted. You can't supply any sort of flag to redirect their output to a file besides a ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the second weekly trash pick-up I've paid attention to in the new apartment house (recycling is every other, so not for another week)... and I don't think I'll take part ( Read more... )

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