Today, PostgreSQL Global Development Group released new versions of all active branches. This includes three security bugfixes, two of which are pretty obscure and one that fixes a possible security issue with restoring un-sanitized output from pg_dump. Details about the security issues are included in the release announcement.
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Student Loan Sharks: Mohela is shady (but the CSR I talked to was really nice)
UPDATED AGAIN: See bottom for contact information from a reporter.
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Mohela took over my loan from the Department of Education and claimed it could change the terms?
This happened to me. Mohela bought my student loan, sent me a letter telling me that the terms on my loan had been modified, and then sent me letters telling me that my monthly payments were overdue — even though I had paid.
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“This story seems too negative. Can you fix that?”
I keep watching this video about cancer research. The speaker is Keith Baggerly, a statistician who (with a team) analyzed data from a series of scientific papers for reproducibility.
Specifically, they were looking at findings from research that determines whether or not a cell line is resistant to a drug – like a cancer fighting drug.
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My first Flickr photo
I took this in my backyard back in the summer of 2004. I’d just picked up a macro extension to an old camera, and took a ton of pictures of a backyard full of gorgeous flowers.
Logging into Google Talk with bitlbee
UPDATED: now with shorter and more accurate instructions 😉
I keep forgetting how to do this, so here it is:
account add jabber [your email address] account set oauth on account gtalk on
And then you’ll be prompted to go through oauth authorization with a link in another chat window.
<3 bitlbee.
Catching up with pgsql-hackers: CRCs, checkpoint performance, SKIP LOCKED ROWS, dry-run pg_archivecleanup
I’ve been sick for a few days, so I settled in with a nice cup of tea and started in on the tremendous backlog I’ve got on pgsql-hackers. I put patch status at the end of each paragraph.
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