Category: tech

While reading some postfix documentation I came across this passage: New queue files are created with names such as 3Pt2mN2VXxznjll. These are encoded in a 52-character alphabet that contains digits (0-9), upper-case letters (B-Z) and lower-case letters (b-z). For safety reasons the vowels (AEIOUaeiou) are excluded from the alphabet. The name format is: 6 or…

I've been building and rebuilding an RPM for git since the RPMs that are published by pbone are full of junk that I don't want with it i.e., Gitweb, or missing pieces that I do want. The original RPM was built before Kernel.org was hacked (the full story can be found at [TheRegister](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_security_breach/)) so the…

Over the last week, as part of my work, I needed to install, enable, and test 3 different procedural modules for PostgreSQL: PL/Tcl, Pl/Perl, and PL/pgSQL. By far the easiest was PL/pgSQL since it comes enabled by default on the database, a user simply needs to run: CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql; After connecting to the database…

Technically it has been more than a month but for the last month, while I've been recovering from my surgery and getting sick every 2 weeks I've been stuck on a Java program that we were assigned. So it is technically really late, however, medical needs, yadda yadda means it's not. I've finally got it…