So I've been looking to migrate my bacula installation from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Personally I like PostgreSQL better and the claims on the bacula-users list were that it's faster. So I did a bunch of reading, and then testing the database conversion and finally have made it through the process …

I have a 15" Macbook Pro unibody for work. Recently I was looking at the hard drive specs as I needed to upgrade another users laptop. Turns out that the SATA controller is capable of 3Gbps, however the drive from Apple is only capable of 1.5Gbps. What's really annoying …

So I'm working on a project that has a number of components to it. In particular the data is all stored in a MySQL database. For various reasons we wanted to convert this to a PostgreSQL database. So off I went working on a branch to make the changes and …