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Saving money with open source, Part 3: The OpenChange solution offers great promise
The third and final part of my series on saving money with open source covers the OpenChange mail server, designed to provide a complete, protocol and functionally equivalent collaboration environment to Microsoft’s Exchange server. From the artic…
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Adding Workflows to the Installation Guides
One of the elements that I have wanted to add to the installation chapter for some time has been some flowcharts to make understanding the steps required to successfully complete an installation on various platforms. The Windows one is the most in…
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Leopard Wiki Server: Creating Custom Themes
The Wiki component in Leopard Server is designed to be ready to run and use for all your workgroup needs, but for those who need to customize the look and feel of their Wiki environment may find a new article on creating custom themes helpful: Fro…
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Saving money with open source, Part 2: Tap into the power of OpenOffice
The second part of the series on saving money using open source technology looks at OpenOffice, a complete Office software suite comprising word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation package, among other tools. From the intro: On the desktop, t…
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Rebuilding the installation chapter
We have lots of things on the go right now (over and above the normal process of keeping things up to date), and one of the main projects for me is to do a complete rebuild of the installation chapter (Installing and Upgrading MySQL). I’ll be star…
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Saving money with open source, Part 1: Use the Ubuntu operating system
I completed a series earlier this year on using various tools within the open source world that can save you money in place of spending money on commercial products and licenses. The first article looks at the Ubuntu Linux distribution. From the i…
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YouTube – Improving Performance by Running MySQL Multiple Times
Feels like a long time ago, but my talk at the MySQL User’s Conference back in April 09 on running MySQL Multiple Times to get better performance is now available online at YouTube. The original PDF of the presentation is available here. View it h…
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UNIX network performance analysis
In a follow-up to an article I did earlier this year on analyzing the structure and layout of your network using ping and other tools, I’ve written another article on similar lines, this time looking at how to monitor and then report on the perfor…
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Dojo examples from UC2009
I know, I know, loads of people have been waiting for these… So here we go, I’ve finally sorted a downloaded version of the Dojo examples from the presentation I provided at the MySQL Users Conference 2009. There are three examples: The auto-pag…
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Improved Indices for MySQL Reference Manual
I continue to try and find new ways to make it easier for people to get into the right place in the documentation for the information you are looking for. This week, I’ve added some experimental custom indexes. These use information from the ID ma…