<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "Over the past few weeks, we've received a number of quality laptops to give out to our kids. Unfortunately many of these laptops did not come with power adapters and pretty much qualify for doorstops."
New virtualization technology offerings and marketing promotions help Microsoft and partner Citrix kick off a 100-city tour to convince customers that flexibility in virtualization is the winning strategy.
<b>beltzner:</b> "Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product development efforts."
Many critical business applications now execute in an environment separate from that of the enterprise database server. The database administrator often finds monitoring and performance tuning of these "distributed" applications to be especially difficult. This article looks at common performance issues of distributed applications and presents advice to assist the IBM DB2 database administrator in mitigating performance problems.
Bringing two networks together is not always a simple matter. Enterprises that approach it from a purely technical perspective are in for a more complex integration.
<b>Linux Operating System:</b> "Jan Mette (funkyou) passed away of as-yet unknown causes. Jan was a major contributor to the Arch Linux community, the creator of KDEmod and a founding member of the Chakra team."
Is that a paperweight on your desk? Oops, sorry, it's a PC -- a space- and energy-saving desktop hardly bigger than a VHS cassette, priced at just $449, but with a dual-core Intel Atom CPU and all the power that office productivity workers need.
<b>Geek Ride:</b> "Everyone is not as lucky as having a full fletched email client like thunderbird or kmail to send mails. There is one unlucky group known as system administrators who have to send the mails either through the command line or a script running on the remote server."
Using profiles for password management is an effective way to restrict unsolicited database usage. Every DBA should verify the password restrictions and setup an appropriate number of profiles for the groups or types of users within the database.
<b>Click:</b> "I turned on my laptop running the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid beta (I think we're still technically on "beta 2") and found more than 100 updates ready for me."
<b>DeveloperWorks: </b>"A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility."
The iPad might be dominating the headlines this week, but the security folks at Apple have been busy, too, releasing an update to the QuickTime software that patches 16 vulnerabilities.
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "The Dé Dup backup utility may not be the most powerful or flexible backup tool out there, but it does have its advantages. Its straightforward interface makes it dead-easy to configure backups, while the support for the Amazon S3 storage back-end is a boon for users looking for unlimited backup storage on the cheap."
<b>The ERACC Web Log:</b> "This is part one of a two part article about a “real life” control system that is a candidate for moving to a VM on Linux. This control system is being used right now in a real manufacturing facility."
Don’t be fooled by a netbook configuration that sounds, well, run-of the-mill. The HP Mini 5102 tops the company's high-end netbook computers, with a price tag to prove it. Is it worth the price?
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "A year and a half ago, I was among those that celebrated the release of Songbird 1.0 -- a Mozilla based open source music challenger to iTunes."
Sitting at the heart of every Linux OS distribution is a Linux kernel. When it comes to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 release, the issue of which kernel is being used is not a cut and dried answer, however.