It looks like Palm's webOS software won't just go into phones and tablets. HP is looking to use the lightweight OS in one of the products it's most famous for producing: laser printers.
Social networking is a crucial part of small business marketing, but managing all the different sites and communities can be overwhelming. Laurie McCabe explains how social media management can tame the beast.
Emery Fletcher wonders if Microsoft has not emulated the IBM of old a bit too well, becoming a slow, bloated engine of intimidation, rather than a lean mean innovator.
<b>WorksWithU:</b> "Call it a small but strategic step in the right direction. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat and Novell, the folks at Canonical are positioning Ubuntu for use by Wall Street firms."
<b>the linux experience:</b> "So I recently decided I wanted to find out more about Windows 7, have the opportunity to form an opinion about it. Having mostly heard good things, I wanted to give it a try and find out if the guys at Redmond finally got it right."
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Katie McCarley has announced the release of Element 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers"
<b>Click:</b> "The images are all 1 GB + (except for the Rescue and Standard versions), so that's a bit of a change from the Lenny era. You'll need to use a DVD. Due to my Toshiba's hatred of CD-R but surprising love of DVD+R, I've been burning everything, including CD images, onto DVD, and it's worked quite well."
<b>Linux Format:</b> "As an April Fool's joke, I created a fake Linux app for the iPhone that made it look like Linux was running on your phone...Sadly, Apple rejected the app for various reasons."
Deanna Dicken examines an SQL Server Profiler event to determine object access...who is using the object, when, and how. This gives the SQL developer or database administrator much needed information for impact analysis prior to a change or the decommissioning of a SQL Server object.
Any activity that may impact a statement's execution plan is a candidate for using SPA to investigate the possible consequences - both good and bad. Steve Callan discusses the workflow and provides a working example.