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Making life easy for new (and old) PWN translators

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:40:40 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

I released version 3.0 of the pwn-translation script. Although the version number is already 3.0, this is the first public available version.

What does it do? You feed one of David Fetter's PostgreSQL weekly news mails into the script and it generates a new mail with all known text parts translated into your native language. This should make life very easy for new - and already existing - pwn translators.

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Unterlagen für Tutorial beim Perl-Workshop in Frankfurt/Main

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:52:14 +0100

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

Die Unterlagen für das Tutorial beim Perl-Workshop 2009 in Frankfurt/Main am 25.02.2009 sind unter:

http://andreas.scherbaum.la/writings/

zu finden. Folgende Änderungen wurden gegenüber dem Vortrag vorgenommen:

- ein falscher Variablenbezeichner im "Perl" Teil wurde korrigiert

- Beispiele für Nutzung von SPI in Perl Stored Procedures wurden aufgenommen

Viel Spass mit den Unterlagen

Update: Die Unterlagen aller Vorträge gibt es im Wiki: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2009/wiki?node=Slides

PostgreSQL and the Perl Workshop 2009 in Frankfurt (Main)

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:24:53 +0100

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

There will be a workshop "optimize PostgreSQL, combine Perl and PostgreSQL" at the Perl Workshop 2009 on february 25 in Frankfurt/Main in Germany.

More details (in german) are available at: http://www.perl-workshop.de/talks/151/view

The full timetable (also mostly in german) for the workshop is available at: http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/zeitplan.html

Single line input for psql copy command

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:26:05 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

I have the following problem:

A database server and another client machine. I have to execute several \copy commands in psql on the client machine to retrieve data and store the output in CSV files. The PostgreSQL COPY command is not an option because it stores the results on the database server, not the client machine. All \copy commands are executed from several files containing SQL commands, which are concated together by a makefile and feeded into psql. So far so good.

My SELECT commands used in the \copy are a bit more complicated and \copy requires to have the entire command on a single line. That can be done in two ways:

- Write the entire command in a single line. But that's hard to debug :-(

- Write the command as i like it and remove the linebreaks before feeding the command into psql.

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new screen_away version for irssi finally online

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:50:10 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

After exact 364 days the irssi guys published my last screen_away.pl version which includes SILC support.

You can find the script here: http://scripts.irssi.org/

For anyone who don't know about screen_away: if you run irssi in a screen(1), this script set's you away if you detach the screen session and cancels the away status if the screen is reconnected. You can configure the away message and optional also change the nick (but ppl usually don't like nick changes to show the away status).

Install instructions are in the head of the script.