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MySQL Gets Live Schema Updating

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday 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.

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Database Management Systems > MySQL

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mysql update online-schema alter

Kick off for GNOME:Ayatana Project

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday 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).

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Linux Distros > Suse

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linux opensource suse gnome desktop opensuse

Linux Mint vs Pinguy OS Review

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday 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 warranted a full-on comparison test.

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Operating Systems > Linux

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linux opensource mint pinguy comparison

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

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday 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.

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Linux Distros > Ubuntu

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linux ubuntu kde desktop interface

After hack, Gawker CTO outlines security changes

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday 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.

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Technology > Security

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Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released with completely free Linux Kernel

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday 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.

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Linux Distros > Debian

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linux debian opensource squeeze

Yahoo slashing products like Delicious, MyBlogLog

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday 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 site Upcoming.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Yahoo

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

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 07, 2010

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

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IT Vendors/Companies > IBM

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ibm open-source mainframe nosoftwarepatents

Adobe considers changes to mitigate PDF attack

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday 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.

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Technology > Security

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security pdf adobe attacks

Wi-Fi issues dominate iPad user complaints

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 06, 2010

Some owners of Apple's new iPad have complained of weak wireless signals, dropped connections and slow surfing speeds

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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iphone apple ipad wi-fi

Cree aims LED modules at old-school lamp makers

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 06, 2010

To help light fitting makers that lack LED experience, Cree has developed a line of modules. Each contains LEDs, drive electronics, optics and primary thermal management.

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Technology > New Feature/Release

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electronics school led cree module

More HP Slate on Video -- Looks Good

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 06, 2010

The iPad is not the only slate that has been capturing attention lately, the HP Slate the company introduced at the CES in January has quite a few getting excited. It looks compelling, but HP has big shoes to fill since the introduction of the iPad.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)

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apple ces hp video ipad

Five iPad apps for busy IT people

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 06, 2010

With the imminent UK launch of Apple's much-hyped iPad, Computer Weekly has identified five ways IT people could use it.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Apple

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apps apple ipad it-professionals

Hundreds Of Googlers Drop `Steve Jobs` Into A Dunk Tank (GOOG, AAPL)

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 05, 2010

Some drink company called Function decided to add more fuel to the Google-Apple fire.
When it was invited to Google's campus to give out drinks, it dressed up one of its employees -- meet Donnie from sales -- as Steve Jobs and put him in a dunk tank.
On its blog, Function says "The tank was a total hit, with hundreds of Google employees lining up to take a shot at Mr. Jobs"

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Technology > Business

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Google Buys Episodic

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 05, 2010

Google has made its fifth acquisition of the year: video service Episodic, which is presumably being drafted to help out with the Google-owned Youtube video service.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Google

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google youtube acquisition episodic

Microsoft ending support for Itanium

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 05, 2010

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel's Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Microsoft

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Apple sells over 300,000 iPad tablets on US launch day

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 05, 2010

We heard some pretty ridiculous estimates over the weekend, but these figures are straight out of Cupertino's mouth: over 300,000 iPads were sold on April 3rd. Specifically, that many were moved in the US as of midnight (PT, we're assuming) on Saturday, though this does include deliveries of pre-ordered units to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Apple

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Dell Aero is AT&T`s second Android phone

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday March 22, 2010

Looks like Dell's finally entering the modern US smartphone market with a renamed Mini 3 called the Aero for AT&T. There's some serious Android UI skinning going on here -- it looks like a riff on what we've seen on the Streak / Mini 5 -- but that's all we know specs-wise at the moment. To be honest, we're somewhat concerned that this custom UI skin will be built on top of Android 1.5

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IT Vendors/Companies > Dell

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Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday March 11, 2010

A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making.

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Technology > Business

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mozilla canadian interface ui jetpack

T-Mobile explains BlackBerry outage, says it`s fixed

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday March 11, 2010

T-Mobile USA issued an explanation for the BlackBerry data outage affecting some nationwide users Monday and Tuesday, saying it related only to Wi-Fi and not T-Mobiles network, directly contradicting what some users reported.

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > Blackberry

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