Possibly, but you would have to post the script first (hint hint).

Yes, I'm sure it wasn't an SSL issue. It was a straight DNS "Domain not found" problem.

However, thank you for the idea of looking up the secondary NS records. Turns out our .com's nameservers reside in our .net domain, which is handled by GoDaddy. I'm off to change those to our static IP addresses.

You would think so, but the company I work for uses GoDaddy (At least up until today we did, we may be going elsewhere now) for our registrar, but nothing else. We run our own DNS servers, our own web servers and load balancers, our own mail servers, etc. but we got scads of complaints about "the website is down" yesterday during the event. We traced it back to external DNS failures, but I have full-time monitoring on all of our systems and nothing on our end even hiccuped. It worked for some locations but not others.

It makes no sense to me either.

That doesn't get around your registrar going down, just your hosting.

TL;DR: Is there an advanced PostgreSQL for MySQL Users guide out there somewhere? Something more than basic command-line equivalents? And preferably from the last two major releases of the software?

Long version
I've been using MySQL personally and professionally for a number of years now. I have setup read-only slaves, reporting servers, multi-master replication, converted between database types, setup hot backups (Regardless of database engine), recovered crashed databases, and I generally know most of the tricks. However I'm not happy with the rumors I'm hearing about Oracle's handling of the software since their acquisition of MySQL's grandparent company, and I'm open to something else if it's more flexible, powerful, and/or efficient.

I've always heard glowing, wonderful things online about PostgreSQL, but I know no one who knows anything about it, let alone advanced tricks like replication, performance tuning, or showing all the live database connections and operations at the current time. So for any Postgres fans on Slashdot, is there such a thing as a guide to PostgreSQL for MySQL admins, especially with advanced topics like replication, tuning, monitoring, and profiling?

That's not how the idea of distributed social networking works. At least not distributed FEDERATED networking. I haven't seen anyone saying "Join my social network, it's better because it's mine." I see people saying "join this social network because it is YOURS and it can work with other networks" (through connectors or the native protocol.

You sign up for Alice's network, you friend the ten people on Bob's network, and the 35 on Charlie's network, then when you hit your feed page (On your node) you see all the posts shared with you from your friends on Bob's network, Charlie's network, etc. All of your agents (nodes) communicate and send data around on your behalf (shares, likes, posts, pics, videos, events, etc).

It's like E-mail (Or XMPP). You have an identifier that "belongs" to you, and an agent (your node) that works for you. It aggregates everything you care about (And everything anyone cares to share with you) and presents it to you. You don't have to do anything special. And anyone can find you based on your identifier.

I'm not totally on-board with Bennett's platform, mainly because if there are ANY costs implied or associated with running your profile, that will strip out a good 80% or so of the people who would participate. Think of all the people who go bonkers when a "Facebook is going to start charging you" message hits the wire.

For those of us outside mainland China, how would we get our hands on one of these?

Ahem... Sixty-four speakers. Don't forget about the subs.

Who pays for IM? It's always been a free add-on service for something else.

Most newer IM services are already Jabber/XMPP (Facebook, LiveJournal, etc). There are only a few "legacy" services that I know of anymore (YIM, AIM, MSN).

Plus, Jabber/XMPP services can connect to these other services through bridge connector plug-ins, though from what I've seen, there's almost no interest in working on them.

Before you can kill something useful, there must be a replacement. What do you suggest as a replacement?

This one's available in the Market (Screw you "Play Store"). It means it's an actual Beta, no side-loading required.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox

I wish I could find a small diesel engine car in the US. Even after-market! The sad fact is (And I'm challenging anyone here to prove me wrong) you cannot buy a small (less than 3-ton) diesel automobile unless you happen to really like (And can find) the VW Golf TDI or maybe you can find an old Mercedes diesel. The only diesels I have been able to find are equivalent or larger than a Ford F350, Dodge Ram 3500, or Chevy Silverado.

I've got a project car that I would like to put a small 4-cyl diesel into, but I. Can't. Find. One.

How many military bases are there in Detroit? This one is being built on a National Guard base very near several major thru-ways for the Internet (Both Salt Lake and Provo have multiple, very wide, very fast feeds to plenty of spots all over the country). And yeah it's "desert" but it's only really hot during the height of summer. The other three seasons it's much more mild weather-wise.

I read your unsupported assertation as to their range and signal characteristics, I even asked you to support it, and frankly I don't believe your claims. It makes me wonder if you know anything about radio.

These jammers are not low-power devices doing the equivalent of telling the phone: "please disconnect from the tower now." They are the EM equivalent of shouting down the phone, and phones have anti-intterference trchniques built-in, so these jammers have to 1) shout loudly, and 2) shout over the entire spectrum the phone uses. And phone signals do pass through glass quite easily, and have a range of more than 10 meters. Now I'll grant that their EM screech will drop below a level sufficient to stop a phone from communicating at a shorter range than the phone has, but claiming it has a 10 meter range or will not leave the bus sounds like justification and wishful thinking.

But of course, I'm the one who is being ridiculous.