Dancing Citroen C4 Transformer: Pleasant geek out moment for a car commercial (via Gizmodo).
Squirrelmail using PostgreSQl: How to use PostgreSQL and a back end for storing Squirrelmail info.
gstat(8): Kind of like ‘systat -vmstat’ but only for disks (and their slices). FreeBSD 5.3.
Triple A: Java, Open Source, axis and allies boardgame.
An Interview With Mark Stosberg: Mark worked on a project that moved a client from Oracle and TCL to PostgreSQL and Perl (bonus points for using FreeBSD). The two hang-ups Mark mentions are dumping the Oracle schema and exporting the Oracle data into PostgreSQL. While I agree that doing this for Oracle is a lot more work than PostgreSQL (pg_dump is great), it really isn’t that hard. In some cases ora2pg might do everything you need to go from Oracle to PostgreSQL. It looks like ora2pg only works with Oracle 8 or higher though, so I ended up writing my own PHP script to export the Oracle 7 schema and data into a text file that psql can slurp in. After fixing up a few edge cases the script weighs in at about 10k (less than 500 loc).