Chasing Nuts

After some unfortunate down time this site is back online.  Thank you to all the people who brought the error to my attention.

This time the site being down was not my fault:

    Hello,

    One of the fileserers that your machines are mounted to blew a drive. Our Admins have resolved the matter. All services (web, mail, etc. ) are fully funtional. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience. If you have any additional questions, please let us know.

           Thanks

My fist two weeks with the laptop have been a real joy.  Normally I spend days setting up a new system but I was able to transfer everything including installed programs from my Imac over to my MacBook Pro.  I REALLY like how apple does this and I wish that every system let you move installed applications so easily. I bet it saved me 45+ hours of work, this is why I am now Steve Jobs fanboy.  

When at my house I connect my laptop to my apple display and use a bluetooth key board and mouse.  I love the setup but recently some called to attention one ‘problem’ with it.  I wanted to have the laptop the same height as the screen so when I looked around my den I grabbed the fist thing I had that was the desired height.

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I have not used my copy of Office XP Developer in some time due to the fact I purchased Office 2008 for the mac.  I love it when I am able to reuse something however it is a bit of an eye sore compared to the rest of the setup.   Does anyone know of a good laptop stand that is frugal?  I just spend all my play money on a new laptop to I have to be price conscious.  If you do know of one drop me a e-mail or leave a comment on the blog please.  

Once again I am dead to Jorge :-)

PGCon has been a great event so far and is only half over!  Two days of tutorials wrapped up yesterday and I learned a lot about GUCs, Materialized Views that Really Work,  and Database Anti-Patterns. 

Last night the fun really kicked up with Yahoo! hosting a night of drinks, food and a Wii give away.  I learned that Yahoo is not only a PostgreSQL shop but has a two petabyte PosgresSQL database, I think PostgreSQL may be ready for the enterprise

Today the hour long sessions start and there are many great presentations I am looking forward to attending.  Today is also the day I will be speaking  and look forward to talking about the EMOL project, another PostgreSQL success story. 

Jer and Jes Have put gogether an amazing Penguicon PodCast or SMOScast.  For those that do not know SMOScast is a monthly Penguicon podcast that will update everyone on community info, behind the scenes info, etc.  and every other week it will be a call-in show.  Thank you both for getting this project off the grount!

Episode 1 - A Babe in the Woods (55:27) (MP3 (50.7MB) / ogg (37.4MB))

• 00:00 Intro Music (Throne of Blood http://www.throneofblood.com)
• 00:25 Show Start
• 01:14 Host Introductions
• 04:00 Show Introduction
• 07:25 How to get involved with the show (smoscast at penguicon dot org)
• 09:00 Penguicon 6.0
• 09:19 A note with love and understanding by Jer
• 09:55 Our favorites of 6.0
• 10:53 We aren’t at all conceited
• 13:27 Steve GUTTERMAN, not Steve GUTTENBERG
• 13:50 Official Soundbyte!(tm)
• 15:47 Dreamland Theater (http://www.dreamlandtheater.com)
• 16:40 Shoggoth on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvogA7r5b0)
• 19:07 Guest of Honor lovin’
• 19:43 Woobies: A woman causing a motorboat situation with her breasts!
• 20:40 Tim Leib is teh awesome / Penguicon != Scientology
• 25:42 Jer’s phone makes an annoying appearance (35 seconds of pain, oops)
• 28:35 Jess has mathematical difficulty
• 20:28 Matt’s missing ConChair Report
• 29:40 Jobs at Penguicon
• 32:17 penguicon.info (Coming soon)
• 33:39 Job Opening: Operations & Ops Staff!
• 34:39 Obscenity Alert - Only 34 minutes late!
• 36:15 consuite at penguicon dot org
• 36:45 Introducing Penguicon *BING*
• 37:06 Job Opening: Sponsorship/Marketing and Staff!
• 39:39 Help Wanted (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/help-wanted)
• 42:02 The truth comes out
• 42:13 Meeting List (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/milestonesandmeetings)
• 43:17 SMOS explained
• 44:30 Wrap-Up/Kick-Off Meeting recap (Jess’s drunken escapades)
• 49:38 Hosting your own SMOS Dinner
• 50:56 We’re about done here / Planning for live broadcast
• 51:45 http://www.penguicon.org and http://www.ibloviate.org
• 53:02 Ending matter and license
• 53:15 Closing music (Throne of Blood)