Monthly Archives: August 2006
MySQL to drop Berkeley DB storage engine
Quick linky to the MySQL story I wrote up today. MySQL is dropping the Berkeley DB storage engine in the 5.1 series, which is unlikely to cause pain for many users, and Brian Aker is working on a memcache storage engine plugin -- which should be fairly interesting for those that use MySQL to power [...]
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Web services are the future... the distant future
A couple of weeks ago, I was at OSCON listening to everyone blather on about the wonders of Web 2.0 and software as a service and how "licensing doesn't matter" because everything is going to be running "in the cloud" on the big player's networks, like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and so forth.
Yeah. When I can [...]
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If you need an example why proprietary software is a Bad Thing...
It's bad enough that a lot of people have their data trapped by proprietary software, these folks have their cars trapped by proprietary software:
In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set [...]
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Oh noes! The command line!
Just reading Mark Shuttleworth's response to Matt Zimmerman's summation of the community's expectations of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS release. One thing stuck out about Zimmerman's comments, that's the complaint that users still have to use the command line for some tasks.
I know, the Holy Grail for a lot of users is to [...]
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Why reading PDFs sucks
The other day, I downloaded a PDF about the making of Revolver by The Beatles. It's more than 100 pages long, so it's unlikely I'm going to read through it in one sitting.
It dawned on me, while reading the book in Evince, that there's no bleeping way to set a bookmark in Evince. Usually, PDFs [...]
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The state of Firefox
If I were to compile a list of applications that I use most often on my Linux desktop right now, it would look something like this:
Vim
Konsole
Firefox
Sylpheed
Konversation
Rhythmbox
KSnapshot
Gimp
Gaim
Akregator
Now, I'm only including desktop apps, not utilities -- otherwise I'd also be including SSH, sudo, apt-get, ls, cp, mv, etc. And I'm not including "Web 2.0" apps that I [...]
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Yes, I do want 1,543 separate accounts, thanks...