Friday, December 26, 2003
Holidays
Its the holidays, and now I finally have time to blog. I've added comments, which is a feature I really missed after I moved back from Moveable Type to Blogger. More to come for sure.
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
NewsForge | Microsoft asks Linux users, "How can we get your business?'
NewsForge | Microsoft asks Linux users, "How can we get your business?'
Thats easy. Stop promoting Windows. Move your other cash crop applications to Linux. Support a more open platform. Port .Net to Linux. You got our Business. Stop squashing smaller companies. Encourage competition.
Thats easy. Stop promoting Windows. Move your other cash crop applications to Linux. Support a more open platform. Port .Net to Linux. You got our Business. Stop squashing smaller companies. Encourage competition.
Friday, December 12, 2003
Survey Ranks Top Ten Biggest, Baddest Databases
Survey Ranks Top Ten Biggest, Baddest Databases
Taking home the prize for largest database size for all OS environments and Unix, for the DSS portion was France Telecom boasting 29.2TB. France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture. In the Windows comparison for database size, ComScore Networks Inc. came in first with 8.9TB for its database. ComScore relies upon Sybase and its Sybase IQ offering as its DBMS, Dell for its systems, and EMC as its storage provider in a clustered architecture. In 2001, ComScore finished on top in the same category with only 1.5TB.
It seems that Windows is quite reliable at storing such data. I'm a little surprised.
Database Size, Windows, DSS
Taking home the prize for largest database size for all OS environments and Unix, for the DSS portion was France Telecom boasting 29.2TB. France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture. In the Windows comparison for database size, ComScore Networks Inc. came in first with 8.9TB for its database. ComScore relies upon Sybase and its Sybase IQ offering as its DBMS, Dell for its systems, and EMC as its storage provider in a clustered architecture. In 2001, ComScore finished on top in the same category with only 1.5TB.
It seems that Windows is quite reliable at storing such data. I'm a little surprised.
Database Size, Windows, DSS
Monday, December 08, 2003
P2P viruses
Sinit, Stewart said, does something unexpected: It uses the commandeered machines to form a peer-to-peer network like the popular Kazaa program used to trade music files. Each machine on the network can share resources and provide information to the others without being controlled by a central server machine.
I'm surprised it took so long!
I'm surprised it took so long!
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
NewsForge | Moving from Red Hat to Mandrake
NewsForge | Moving from Red Hat to Mandrake
For the first time in a good while, I'm not running Red Hat. This article is the first to be written on my new Mandrake 9.2 installation. While I feel no anger nor resentment towards Red Hat for its recent announcement that it is dropping its consumer desktop product, I do feel some angst. Red Hat has every right to pursue greater profits. They are choosing profits today from the server/enterprise market over participation in what will be the fastest growth market for Linux in the future: The consumer desktop. The reason for my angst, of course, is that the Red Hat announcement meant I would have to move my desktop to a new distribution.
Kinda like my situation. Even at work, my personal box is running Slackware. I had to find a distribution that was not going through major change. Slackware is the second distribution I tried, way back in 1997. I stuck with it for a while before I started working at the lab, where they had standardized on Redhat. It is now time to move back to slackware, at least at home. At work we are still trying to decide which distro to move to.
For the first time in a good while, I'm not running Red Hat. This article is the first to be written on my new Mandrake 9.2 installation. While I feel no anger nor resentment towards Red Hat for its recent announcement that it is dropping its consumer desktop product, I do feel some angst. Red Hat has every right to pursue greater profits. They are choosing profits today from the server/enterprise market over participation in what will be the fastest growth market for Linux in the future: The consumer desktop. The reason for my angst, of course, is that the Red Hat announcement meant I would have to move my desktop to a new distribution.
Kinda like my situation. Even at work, my personal box is running Slackware. I had to find a distribution that was not going through major change. Slackware is the second distribution I tried, way back in 1997. I stuck with it for a while before I started working at the lab, where they had standardized on Redhat. It is now time to move back to slackware, at least at home. At work we are still trying to decide which distro to move to.
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