While not a tremendous fan of McCain, I easily favor him over Obama. I think that much is obvious if you have read any of my previous postings dealing with politics. Obama just seems too scripted and packaged to me. At times it really seems as if he has zero experience politically (statements about “guns and religion” and “thermostats and SUVs” that are now quite notorious prove this, at least to me).
Because of this apparent lack of inexperience, I had been hoping to see some good old fashioned McCain v. Obama sparring in some unstructured debates and town halls (where the audience is free to ask questions to the candidates).
It appears from this AP report that is likely not to happen despite McCain’s desire to do so.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain have failed
to agree on joint town hall appearances.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement Friday that he offered
to meet McCain in five joint appearances between now and the Nov. 4 election.
But only one of those was a town hall meeting.
McCain wanted them to appear together in 10 town hall meetings that would be
unscripted with questions from voters in the audience.
Obama preferred one town hall, plus three traditional debates and an in-depth
debate on foreign policy.
It seems to me that Obama is fearful of the results of what a unscripted series of town hall meetings could expose about him. Rightly so, I presume. I mean, from what great well of experience and knowledge can/does he draw from?
We finally shipped Lysine 1.0, Amino Software’s EBCDIC Source Component for SSIS. With this component you can read the raw binary data dumps from mainframes directly into Microsoft’s SQL Server via SSIS. This should eliminate the need for most cases of having to write preprocessors to transform the data prior to integration.
In summary, Lysine offers:
Imports Raw Binary EBCDIC Data (no preprocessing in most cases)
Several EBCDIC code pages supported
Intuitive Layout UI for rapid development
Quick Preview to show you if your layout is correct
All major column types supported:
Redefines
Occurs
Occurs Depending On
Packed (Comp-3), Zoned
Single Pass conversion for scalable performance
Export/Import of layout for team development and versioning
It constantly amazes me how people like Maxine Waters get elected when they have absurd ideas, and worse, express those ideas in the context of a United States Congresswoman.
Nationalizing oil companies? Really? I can’t help but notice some of her colleagues in the background chuckling to themselves.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want
and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and
then just expect that other countries are going to
say OK,” Obama said.
WHen I saw this in an article today, my first reaction was “what kind of wacky statement is that?”. I mean, why do we need the permission of other countries?
Then I realized that this is in the very least a pure politics pitch. After all he was delivering this statement to crowds in Oregon. But I wonder, does he really believe such nonsense? Would he really seek to take away our freedoms if elected President? Surely, he doesn’t support the federal government telling citizens how much they are allowed to eat or what kind of car they are allowed to drive or controlling our thermostats.
At least I hope not, or we might be in for a very dark period in this country.
So on one of our test servers I was doing some heavy performance testing when I noticed a strange OperationalError exception message in the Debug console for Django:
I went digging around and sure enough I had all kinds of locks when I attempted:
mysql> SHOW PROCESSLIST;
So next I checked the status of the free space available to learn than the partition that the mysql data was on was completely full. So, shutdown mysql and relocated the data to another partition with plenty of room:
