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Display Name:Don Drake
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1) Don Drake Re: Introducing MailLaunder
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I highly doubt we're related as Drake is a very common last name. Plus, I have a long time before...
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I highly doubt we're related as Drake is a very common last name.  Plus, I
have a long time before I'll be a grandfather.

-Don


On 4/18/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:30 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Don,
> >
> > > Please find our press release introducing Mail Launder which uses
> > > PostgreSQL.
> >
> > ;-) You're not related to Josh Drake, are you?
>
> I have a Don Drake in my family. He is my Grand Father but he is also
> well into his 70s (if not 80s), and I would know if this was his
> product ;)
>
> There is also a Jeff Drake on the lists now which always catches me off
> guard because his domain is jdrake.com.
>
> The Drake family as far as I know is not widely dispersed in the states
> it would be interesting to see if the trees intersect somewhere.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> >
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Donald Drake
Drake Consulting
http://www.drakeconsult.com/
http://www.MailLaunder.com/
http://www.mobilemeridian.com/
http://www.DrudgeSiren.com/
312-560-1574
800-733-2143
2) Don Drake Introducing MailLaunder
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Please find our press release introducing Mail Launder which uses PostgreSQL. Thanks. -Don Donald...
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Please find our press release introducing Mail Launder which uses
PostgreSQL.

Thanks.

-Don

Donald Drake
MailLaunder.com -- Stopping spam in its tracks...
http://www.MailLaunder.com/ <http://www.maillaunder.com/>
800-733-2143

http://www.prwebdirect.com/releases/2006/4/prweb373599.htm



*E-MAIL FILTERING SYSTEM PREVENTS SPAM AND VIRUS THREATS *

*TO SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZE BUSINESSES*



*CHICAGO**, April 17, 2006* �C Drake Consulting, provider of technology
consulting services, announced the launch of MailLaunder.com, an easy-to-use
Web service that stops viruses and blocks spam before they reach
subscribers' networks.

Using cutting-edge technology and an innovative set of rules, the
MailLaunder System sorts subscribers' e-mail, then it eliminates viruses and
quarantines spam so that it can be viewed by subscribers at their
convenience. All valid messages are delivered immediately.

MailLaunder.com arrives in the market place as Internet viruses, spam and
"phishing scams" ─ attempts to gain password, credit card information and
other personal data ─  continue to escalate from mere annoyance to major
impediment to American businesses.

In fact, according to the Gartner Group, phishing cost U.S. banks and
credit card issuers $1.2 billion in 2003, when approximately 57
million Americans received these types of messages.

And even more alarming for all types of businesses, the 2004 National
Technology Readiness Survey ─  conducted by Rockbridge Associates and
the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland's
Robert H. Smith School of Business ─  says that the cost of spam to
American companies in terms of lost productivity has reached $21.6
billion annually.

"But the affect on the general employee's productivity is just the tip of
the iceberg," says Don Drake, founder of Drake Consulting and lead developer
of the MailLaunder System. "There's also a tremendous drain on IT and Help
Desk resources as they battle these messages that can do irreparable damage
to company networks and proprietary information."

The MailLaunder solution uses all open-source technologies including:
PostgreSQL database, XMail mail server, Linux operating system, Perl code
and PHP front-end. It is recommended for individuals and small- and
medium-size businesses with their own domain name.

For more information about the MailLaunder System, visit
http://www.maillaunder.com.



*About Drake Consulting:* Drake Consulting develops performance analysis
tools and services for the wireless and online industries, including Meridian
One <http://www.mobilemeridian.com/> and XMail
Scripts<http://www.drakeconsult.com/xmail/>.
Drake Consulting also provides technology consulting services and staff
augmentation to a wide range of clients in the Chicago area, including
telecommunications, retail, financial and e-commerce companies. For more
information, visit DrakeConsult.com <http://www.drakeconsult.com/>.

*MAILLAUNDER.COM CONTACT: *
Don Drake
1-800-733-2143
[email protected: d...@maillaunder.com]
3) Don Drake Encoding on 8.0.4
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I recently upgraded my DB from 7.4.3 to 8.0.4 and I've noticed the following errors appearing in my...
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I recently upgraded my DB from 7.4.3 to 8.0.4 and I've noticed the following
errors appearing in my serverlog:


2005-11-03 05:56:57 CST 127.0.0.1(38858) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 06:04:09 CST 127.0.0.1(38954) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe02d76
2005-11-03 06:04:21 CST 127.0.0.1(38964) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe02d76
2005-11-03 06:11:35 CST 127.0.0.1(39072) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 06:23:23 CST 127.0.0.1(39657) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xd40d
2005-11-03 08:10:02 CST 127.0.0.1(44073) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe46973
2005-11-03 08:21:13 CST 127.0.0.1(44711) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 08:26:36 CST 127.0.0.1(44745) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xc447
2005-11-03 08:40:59 CST 127.0.0.1(45087) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xdd20
2005-11-03 09:14:52 CST 127.0.0.1(46009) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported

I never received these errors on when running 7.4.3. I used the default
encodings on 7.4.3 and I tried chaning client_encoding from sql_ascii to
UNICODE and I'm still seeing this. I'm storing in a text data type email
that contains other characterset characters.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

-Don
4) Don Drake Encoding on 8.0.4
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I recently upgraded my DB from 7.4.3 to 8.0.4 and I've noticed the following errors appearing in my...
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I recently upgraded my DB from 7.4.3 to 8.0.4 and I've noticed the following
errors appearing in my serverlog:


2005-11-03 05:56:57 CST 127.0.0.1(38858) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 06:04:09 CST 127.0.0.1(38954) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe02d76
2005-11-03 06:04:21 CST 127.0.0.1(38964) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe02d76
2005-11-03 06:11:35 CST 127.0.0.1(39072) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 06:23:23 CST 127.0.0.1(39657) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xd40d
2005-11-03 08:10:02 CST 127.0.0.1(44073) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xe46973
2005-11-03 08:21:13 CST 127.0.0.1(44711) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported
2005-11-03 08:26:36 CST 127.0.0.1(44745) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xc447
2005-11-03 08:40:59 CST 127.0.0.1(45087) ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
encoding "UNICODE": 0xdd20
2005-11-03 09:14:52 CST 127.0.0.1(46009) ERROR: Unicode characters greater
than or equal to 0x10000 are not supported

I never received these errors on when running 7.4.3. I used the default
encodings on 7.4.3 and I tried chaning client_encoding from sql_ascii to
UNICODE and I'm still seeing this. I'm storing in a text data type email
that contains other characterset characters.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

-Don

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Donald Drake
President
Drake Consulting
http://www.drakeconsult.com/
http://www.MailLaunder.com/

312-560-1574
5) Don Drake Re: sleep?
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Sorry for the delay in replying. The use-case that I have is the following. I'm writing a...
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Sorry for the delay in replying.

The use-case that I have is the following. I'm writing a job-control
tracking sub-system that will store when jobs are started, finished, failed,
etc. I would like to have the ability to have a process that is requesting
to start, to actually wait a specified period time before starting. It could
wait for another job to finish. I'm writing this in plpgsql since I'm
storing status in the db.

-Don


On 8/22/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:34:29AM -0500, Don Drake wrote:
> > I agree that a basic function (non-CPU intensive sleep) like this should
> be
> > built in.
>
> It's being discussed in pgsql-hackers:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-08/msg00633.php
>
> Do you have any use cases in addition to what's already been
> mentioned? Sleeping isn't really a database operation, so there
> needs to be some justification for making it a standard function.
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
>



--
Donald Drake
President
Drake Consulting
http://www.drakeconsult.com/
http://www.MailLaunder.com/
http://www.mobilemeridian.com/
312-560-1574

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