Monthly Archives: March 2007

Dell Linux Survey

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Michael Schurter

Dell has put up a Linux survey.  Please go take it now if you want to see Linux on Dell computers! I see Linux (any distro, I’m really not picky) being preinstalled by OEM’s as being the major “feature” missing … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL Killed My Harddrive

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Michael Schurter

The harddrive died in the server that dumps our firewall’s syslog output into a nice PostgreSQL database for easy reporting. PostgreSQL didn’t do anything evil in order to kill the drive, but because it syncs data to the harddrive for … Continue reading →

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Connecting SQLObjects to PostgreSQL via SSL

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Michael Schurter

I’m trying to learn TurboGears, but I got stumped yesterday trying to figure out how to connect to PostgreSQL via SSL. Turns out this works in SQLObject (TurboGear’s default ORM): sqlobject.dburi=”postgres://username:pass@servername/mydb sslmode=require” Turns out the syntax I was trying to … Continue reading →

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ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Annoyance

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Michael Schurter

If you use dual monitors with an ATI video card and Gnome, don’t use Gnome’s Screen Resolution capplet. The Screen Resolution capplet will reset the “DesktopSetup” option in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to the default of “clone“.If you’ve already used the … Continue reading →

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