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Dell: Solaris not a standard
Judy Chavis has stated that Dell won’t look at supporting, or providing, Solaris on their equipment until Solaris becomes the next industry standard OS – I quote from here: “Is it the next industry standard around operating systems? That’s what it…
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One worker in one country
A recent article at CNN talks about how MySQL operates. As one of the MySQL team, I can attest that works, but it requires a significant amount of coordination, and lots of online communication through email, IRC, Skype and other methods to keep e…
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GNU/Linux – Fad or Favoritism picked up by Linux Today
I’ve picked up bloggin at FSM again, and my first post has been picked up by LinuxToday already. I urge you to read the article, but the basis of my thoughts are whether my current Linux distribution choices are because they are better than my pre…
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Solaris Apache MySQL PHP – SAMP
There’s a good step-by-step guide at Sun’s BigAdmin site on how to configure your Solaris box for SAMP – the Solaris equivalent of the LAMP stack. The short, but sweet, article can be found here. I use SAMP on the Ultra3 as my development platform…
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MediaWiki Review
The latest in my reviews of hosting provider open source software is available at Free Software Magazine. You can read the full review here. Wikipedia is a Wiki – basically a information storage engine that works entirely through a web interface. …
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LoCA 2006 Photos
I’ve managed to find some photos of me presenting my keynote at LoCA 2006. You can view the full set of all photos here. I’m the guy in white. The somewhat jaded faces are nothing to do with my presentation, but the late night and then early morni…
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Writing text parsers with yacc and lex
Lex and yacc are two tools that you may be aware of, but have maybe never used. They are key components to compilers, configuration tools and many different languages, where the ability to parse text and generate some other output (assembly code, …
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Memory stick returned!
Years ago, I got into the habit of travelling around with a USB memory stick, probably long before they became the fashion accessory they are now. It became invaluable for three reasons: I keep a copy of my current resume on the stick. If I meet s…
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LoCA 2006 Keynote
As previously announced, I presented the keynote at LoCA 2006. The keynote was on Google Maps and Google Earth, related to the new book which I just announced on the book’s new companion website. I’d like to think that the presentation went well -…
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Building an RPN to Equation Parser
In the final part of the examination of lex and yacc, here are the rules for building a parser that translates RPN into equation input (the reverse of the Equation to RPN parser. Translating RPN into standard equation format is a lot more difficul…