Archives June 3, 2004

Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...)


Looks as though the problems with the scanner were being precipitated by having too many simultaneous postgresql queries. Introducing more randomness into the scanner has let it run for a few hours at a time so far. Have begun producing a trivial summary/overview in simple text which makes it possible to confirm that the scanner ...

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Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...)


Looks as though the problems with the scanner were being precipitated by having too many simultaneous postgresql queries. Introducing more randomness into the scanner has let it run for a few hours at a time so far. Have begun producing a trivial summary/overview in simple text which makes it possible to confirm that the scanner ...

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Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)


I must admit complete and abject defeat. I sent a mock-legalese threatening letter to Lisa wrt her promise to get together and chat. Got back a perfectly formed legal document with threats of litigation, callouts on various poorly formed legal theories, etceteras (no references to case law, however). Shiver. Long and short of the harrowing ...

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Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)


I must admit complete and abject defeat. I sent a mock-legalese threatening letter to Lisa wrt her promise to get together and chat. Got back a perfectly formed legal document with threats of litigation, callouts on various poorly formed legal theories, etceteras (no references to case law, however). Shiver. Long and short of the harrowing ...

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Looks like PyPgSQL is the culprit (For the crashes, anyway)


The annoying crashes during the run of the ping scanner appear to be happening in the middle of a huge chain of PyPgSQL calls, particularly ones that appear to be network related. Going to have to check out twisted.enterprise to see if they had to do something special to make PyPgSQL play nice with Twisted's ...

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