PostgreSQL 9.0 High perfomance

I've just finished G.Smith's "PostgreSQL 9.0 High performance". It's just an excellent book for any DBA. It provides detail information on PostgreSQL-related tuning (from server hardware and OS settings to query tuning and DBMS monitoring). We are going to upgrade our DBMS server next year, so I'll have an opportunity to apply this recommendations in practice. The only disadvantage is that the book is Linux-oriented, and we have FreeBSD DBMS server. However, basic settings for our OS are also covered in this book. Now I wonder: should I use ZFS for PostgreSQL on FreeBSD? I think at least I should make some benchmarks...

Social network

When book is over and there is a mess in my head, movie helps... I've just watched "Social Network". At least it was interesting. The ethernal opposition between men who just do something and believe in this and men who just want to earn some money and clear off.

Paradise Lost

I've just finished reading Milton's "Paradise Lost". Mixed impression... I tried to start reading this book three times before. The book is sometimes quite boring, but it has very intersting details. Disliking the Bible and religion in general, I can appreciate Milton's interpretation of banishment from paradise. And also, author draws Lucifer image not without sympathy. A figure defying omnipotent God is worthy of respect...

Just remember never use ctrl+Ins in server console

I'm quite disturbed. I had found file to delete, had copied its name, entered "rm" and pressed ctrl+ins... What effectively pasted in the contents of one script. So I recieved "rm #!/bin/sh". I'm lucky, it wasn't "rm /bin/sh"... I hate several copy-paste buffers - one general buffer in KDE and separate buffer in Konsole.... Uuuuuu..........

One more awful day

Just one more day when everything goes wrong, you are so exhausted that can't even read, you eager to sleep, but you can't and so on, and so on. And there's no one to blame for this except yourself.
The only wish is to drink a glass of vodka and to go sleeping...
Sounds like a shit, feels much worse...

Vim-compatible web-based text editor

It is not a joke. Google created vim-compatible Web-based text editor :) I don't feel myself such a geek. It is the best editor in command line, but why should anyone use it in GUI environment, especially in user-oriented OS?

Is Russian Culture department a band of thieves?

I do like our government!!! Fuck them and their laws (c, Prodigy). The Russian Culture Department recently created new perfect idea: let's take money from computers and ebooks sellers (1 % from sales). Quite ellegant decision for feeding an army of bureaucrats when Russian economy is on the knees...