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What's a good scrum tracking tool?
by David Collier-Brown 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

I'm using jira, and now see why we previously dropped it in favour of yellow stickies and whiteboards (;-)) What's a good product, preferably one that is programmable, has a command-line or an api? I'm suffering from click-and-have-coffee syndrome, and the only thing programmable are csv uploads and pseudo-sql queries, via the gui. I want to manage stories and bugs filed against them. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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Job Opportunity
by Dave Cramer 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

A client of mine is looking for a data architect/DBA Position: Information Architect / DBA Location: Oakville, ON Reporting to: Director, IT & Operations Job Description: Working under the direction of the Director of IT and Operations this is a hands on Information Architect role. This is a newly created role at FlightNetwork. The candidate will work with agile developers, product managers, infrastructure teams and will have the support of an offshore DBA and an onsite PostgreSQL consultant.The Information Architect responsibilities will include: - database administration - database design and architecture - database security and replication - database performance, monitoring and tuning - organizing, consolidating and making data available - participate in user requirement analysis This is a hands on role in a PostgreSQL environment with plans for non-structured systems in the near future to support the demanding needs of the business. The candidate will work with agile developers, product managers, infrastructure teams and will have the support of an offshore DBA and an onsite PostgreSQL consultant. This position is 24 x 7 and includes production support. Who you are? You’re a data junkhead and with an obsessive nature in all that you do. You have impeccable organizational skills and attention to detail that leaves people in awe. If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you. Required Skills:A minimum of 5 years in a comparable role - Excellent interpersonal skills. - Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems. - Solid understanding of database design principles. - Problem-solving skills. - Ability to work well under stress. - Postgresql experience. - Experience with unstructured “big data” solutions; when to use it; when not to. - Excellent performance tuning skills. - Ability to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve live database systems issues. - Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal. Please send resume's to Marc Knoop marc.knoop(a)flightnetwork.com

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Playing *.pls files in firefox?
by Walter Dnes 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Showing my age here, I like oldies music. An interesting site is http://www.fun45s.com/ but firefox won't play it for me. Fortunately they give the direct stream URL on their homepage. If I try http://s7.voscast.com:8376 or http://www.fun45s.com/listen.pls in firefox, firefox asks for a .pls handler, and I point it to mpg123. It doesn't work. No music. But if I run mpg123 direcly from the commandline like so... mpg123 http://s7.voscast.com:8376 ...it works. Can I set up firefox to handle pls files direcly, or is there a player that firefox can invoke? -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes(a)waltdnes.org>

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Firefox is a pig
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

My desktop has been up for a week. I have a lot of firefox windows and many more tabs open. FF was getting sluggish. It has taken 4k minutes of CPU. Not seconds. So that is about 10 hours of CPU per day. Even quiting is taking a long time. About 10 minutes so far. At 99% of the CPU. Yuck. Maybe I'll kill it. It is taking 8G of virtual memory and 4.5 G resident (according to top).

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Virtual Machines Under Android?
by Scott Sullivan 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

First some background, then a question. Recently, due to my laptop becoming non-usable for mobile work, I've been taking much more advantage of my Android phone. Paired with a usb Lenovo compact thinkpad keyboard w/ track-point, and it's surprisingly very usable, the track point giving me a mouse courser and keyboard on a single USB-OTG connection. What I have found is that while you can almost use it as a desktop, it's clearly not, and you won't get the same efficiency of use. But it's led me thinking that this device is in many respects more powerful then my sub-notebook laptop (less the RAM). So the question. What have people done to run virtual machines on their Android phones? A few years ago I had tried out Limbo PC, which was a QEMU port to run x86 machines on your phone. You loose a lot of performance in the instruction set translation. I know the major Distro's have very robust ARM package sets at this point, so I'd look at running a native Linux in visualization. http://linuxonandroid.org/ This comes up in searches, but on the surface looks like their using a chroot method. Hmm... which I hadn't considered. -- Scott Sullivan

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I stumbled on a DD-WRT drama
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

Kong quits development: <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=269247&postdays=0&postorder=as…> subject: Ceasing Development As best I can make out, he did some/most/all of the ARM side of things (eg. for the recent Netgear wireless router). Much wailing and gnashing of teeth ensued, as well it might. Then it turned into a pile-on-colinsnj. Apparently he seems to want the GPL to be respected, and that others think that that is what drove Kong away. I kind of feel that colinsnj is right, but then that's why I'm not a dd-wrt user. Then Kong posts that it was all a joke and that he smoked out the evil Colinsnj <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=269359> subject: !!! ~~~ YOU HAVE BEEN PRANKED ~~~ !!! One amusing part of the last bit: Kong wants others to do more of the work building "optware packages". To enable that: I instructed basmaf to prepare an openwrt build environment in order to build packages that are fully compatible with dd-wrt. The same is needed for arm and musl now. It is a bit more difficult in this case as a lot of packages need some work in order to compile with musl, so you should have some coding experience:-) This certainly reinforces the belief that DD-WRT folks don't want any but insiders to be able to build dd-ware. Some of the users seem to be suffering Stockholm Syndrome. They don't realize that they would not be so beholden to Brainslayer and Kong if this was really open source. Of course they would not have a good Broadcom driver either.

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Fwd: [PRIVATE] [TLUG]: monitor, dell (fwd)
by ted leslie 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

People have posted good price stuff on here before: http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/dell-27-2560-x-1440-led-ips-monitor/60001894778… 750$ monitor for 250$ ! pricing error? you tell me! Like the lenovo portable someone posted here a while back, if it is a pricing error, I assume they will not fulfil, but I have ordered a couple any way, see what happens. -tl

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Thinkpad choices today?
by Scott Sullivan 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

After 4 years my Lenovo x120e has final succumbed to the rough and tumble I put it through. The screen cracked and is unusable. This leaves me looking for a replacement. I'm going to constrain this question to Lenovo options. I don't think I can overcome my track-point addiction. Anyone purchased Thinkpad hardware in the last while? I know with some of the recent models Lenovo has started messing around with the keyboard design. What are peoples opinions? -- Scott Sullivan

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interesting article about how ChromeOS started
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

<http://blog.jeff-nelson.com/2012/11/on-inventing-chromebook.html> (I'm not sure "invented" is the word I'd use.)

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My company is looking for some Java folks
by David Collier-Brown 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

We're looking for a senior back-end person and a web designer and developer. See stack overflow, https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/73611/senior-platform-engineer-world… https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/73612/web-designer-developer-worldga… --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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