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BBC Quiz: Old computers
The BBC has a great quiz on old computers, most of which I’m happy to admit that I have actually owned. Despite this I only 7 out of 10, but I still think that’s a respectable score.
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Summarizing virtualization technologies from Sun
Inspired by a recent discussion on Xen Discuss about what different virtualization solutions were available from Sun I thought I’d take the information provided by Volker A. Brandt and Bernd Schemmer and put it into a convenient table. Name Sparc …
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Podcast Producer: Writing Actions
The second article in my Podcast Producer series is now available on Apple Developer Connection. Podcast Producer: Writing Actions discusses the actions that make up the processing of podcasts sent to Podcast Producer into the final formats and as…
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MySQL Documentation Myths
There are a few myths surrounding the MySQL documentation and how it works, and I thought I’d try and dispel some of those myths if I can. If you have any more questions or misunderstandings you want clarified, let me know. Myth: MySQL Documentati…
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Teaching OpenSolaris
While looking for some information on OpenSolaris in preparation for my talk this week I came across some excellent material providing backgrounds on OpenSolaris for both instructors and students. The material is part of the Curriculum Development…
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More Datacenters in a Container
Not exactly portable (unless you have a container lorry or ship handy), but I’d love to have one of Sun’s Sun’s Modular Datacenters available to use. The Modular Datacenter (otherwise known as Project Blackbox) squeezes 7 or 8 racks, depending on …
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DimDim and MySQL University
Stop the press! My boss, Stefan Hinz, has just started blogging, with his first post here: Using NetBeans with MySQL. So who is he? Well, Stefan is the guy that keeps the rest of us in the docs team in check and makes sure we do what we’re asked, …
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Using the MySQL Doc source tree
I’ve mentioned a number of times that the documentation repositories that we use to build the docs are freely available, and so they are, but how do you go about using them? More and more people are getting interested in being able to work with th…
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MySQL on Solaris at the MySQL European Customer Conference
I’m speaking at the MySQL European Customer Conference this week (Thursday, 23rd), on the topic of the best deployment practices for using MySQL on Solaris. I’ll be covering a number of topics, including: Overview of MySQL availability on Solaris …
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Resources for Running Solaris OS on a Laptop
As Solaris gets more and more popular I’m seeing more and more people running Solaris on a laptop as their primary operating system. I’ve even got friends who have migrated over completely to Solaris from Linux. I’ve been using it for years and ma…