Why does a PostgreSQL upgrade require an export, uninstall, install and then import of the database? That big changes in the database? It would be nice to know how to import from a compressed archive, anybody ever got this working? If so, please leave a comment! I've been googling my …

Ever been there after your last exam? You've just started a new job and some time ahead into the job you need to take the plunge, make some big changes, upgrades, something you haven't done before or just something that has a big impact. Maybe it's the day you do …

0/ Have your own virtual machine in your desktop is not hard! 0.1/ Some Terminology OS - Operating System Host OS - Underlying OS - in this you install VMWare Workstation. Host needs to be stared for the guest to be able to start. Guest OS - The extra OS you install inside …

Is it just me? Whenever I have to restart something or do some actual maintenance on a server - that my heart starts pumping and I get really really nervous. I've heard many times people say things like: "pain is temporary, glory is forever" (quote from a movie) when it comes …

You can download the Beta here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html The release notes are here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/ Some cool stuff, but should you upgrade already? I ran the Firefox 4 beta for what feels like forever and didn't have …

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

Hard to tell.. but if you see this pretty cool 6min movie: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1430 you'll see that they mention a collider. This thing sends out lots of data from each collision. I administrate a system that gets a little bit (very little) of that …

After a question in my SAN switch firmware upgrade article I made a comparison of two downloads of 6.3.1b (one via IBM and one from HP) - the only differences were a file called ancillary and one called EULA.pdf. I used examdiff to find the differences. All the …

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1478734 I couldn't get it to work. Eventually I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM in Virtualbox and in there it worked. However, resolution is only 800x600. So I found this page: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php …

Ever noticed this? I googled my behind off and saw some posts about registry , re-registering, runing as administrator but any way the last one did not work. A restart do get them back. Maybe not the most awesome 'fix' but I think a restart might be good every now and …