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MySQL Gets Live Schema Updating

Suggested by Webmaster on March 23, 2011

Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday.

Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too time-consuming in today's fast-paced environments, said Lawrence Schwartz, Tokutek director of marketing. (more)

Category: Database Management Systems > MySQL

Tags: mysql, update, online-schema, alter

Kick off for GNOME:Ayatana Project

Suggested by Webmaster on January 03, 2011

This has been one of the guidelines in my life for quite some time… It started as a curiosity a long time ago with Notify OSD and evolved to full project in openSUSE. It is important to acknowledge at this point the motivation provided by the openSUSE GNOME Team from which I’ve been getting plenty of guidance and help, namely from Vincent Untz (vuntz) and Dominique Leuenberger (Dimstar). (more)

Category: Linux Distros > Suse

Tags: linux, opensource, suse, gnome, desktop, opensuse

Linux Mint vs Pinguy OS Review

Suggested by Webmaster on January 03, 2011

Linux Mint is one of the oldest, and arguably one of the best-developed, spin-offs of Ubuntu. Over the last few weeks, I've been seeing more articles talk about another similar spin-off of Ubuntu called Pinguy OS, and I thought, "Another Ubuntu derivative? How many more does the world need?" But then I saw that these articles were placing Pinguy OS on the same level of Linux Mint. I figured this w (more)

Category: Operating Systems > Linux

Tags: linux, opensource, mint, pinguy, comparison

Common user interface mistakes in KDE applications, part 2: Dialog layouts

Suggested by Webmaster on December 27, 2010

It is not uncommon to find dialogs which contains tabs, which themselves contain groups, which contain other groups. That’s quite a lot of borders… Not only does it look crowded, it also eats valuable content space. There are a few easy tricks you can use to avoid this issue. (more)

Category: Linux Distros > Ubuntu

Tags: linux, ubuntu, kde, desktop, interface

After hack, Gawker CTO outlines security changes

Suggested by Webmaster on December 20, 2010

Gawker Media's CTO has outlined a series of security changes designed to shore up the company's IT operations following an attack last week that compromised up to 1.4 million accounts. (more)

Category: Technology > Security

Tags: security, hack, cto, gawker

Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released with completely free Linux Kernel

Suggested by Webmaster on December 17, 2010

The Debian project has been working in removing non-free firmware from the Linux kernel shipped with Debian for the past two release cycles. At the time of the releases of Debian 4.0 Etch and 5.0 Lenny, however, it was not yet possible to ship Linux kernels stripped of all non-free firmware bits. (more)

Category: Linux Distros > Debian

Tags: linux, debian, opensource, squeeze

Yahoo slashing products like Delicious, MyBlogLog

Suggested by Webmaster on December 17, 2010

Layoffs apparently aren't the only thing Yahoo is doing to slim down size and cut expenses: A screenshot from a company Webcast began circulating Thursday that claims the company will be shutting down Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, Delicious, AllTheWeb.com, Yahoo Picks, and AltaVista; as well as merging and consolidating a handful of other products like geolocation service Fire Eagle and event listing sit (more)

Category: IT Vendors/Companies > Yahoo

Tags: yahoo, technology, jobs, employment, layoffs, economy

IBM `shows true colours` against open source Hercules mainframe emulator

Suggested by Webmaster on April 07, 2010

Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, has attacked IBM for stifling open source innovation. (more)

Category: IT Vendors/Companies > IBM

Tags: ibm, open-source, mainframe, nosoftwarepatents

Adobe considers changes to mitigate PDF attack

Suggested by Webmaster on April 07, 2010

Adobe Systems is considering modifying its PDF applications to counter a way to run arbitrary code on Windows computers by embedding it in a malicious PDF file. (more)

Category: Technology > Security

Tags: security, pdf, adobe, attacks