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A Little More MySQL Info (but I'm not linking)

I found a little more information about the recent MySQL/Innobase topic.  Why am I not going to post the link?  The article is on a SYS-CON site, but that has nothing to do with it.  You may remember that most of the Open Source related SYS-CON staff resigned a

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BitMover Madness

While I've not seen a lot of news about this, it seems quite asinine to me.  When a vendor can tell a customer what its employees can do on their own time, something is wrong.  I'm sure most of you remember the BitKeeper Linux kernel debacle

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Desktop Apps Coming to the Web: Google

In this article, a Google engineer makes a couple comments on Google Maps.  That's not what I find interesting though.  While Google Maps is amazingly slick, it has some major usability holes IMHO (no ability to save your location, no ability to do multiple-stop trips, an odd propensity

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20 Years of Windows

Microsoft Windows just turned twenty.  For a full history of Windows, here's the Wikipedia article.  What I find ironic, and didn't know, is that the very first version of Windows shipped quite late and vastly understated hardware requirements.  Seems not much has changed ;)  Truth is, I

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Open Debate About OpenDocument

FOXNews recently ran a story about the MA decision to move to an OpenDocument standard.  The article was quickly blasted by their own readers, who pointed out that the article was one sided, full of FUD and neglected to mention that the author was funded by Microsoft.  From the followup

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The Value Dell Puts on Microsoft Windows

Anyone who's dealt with Dell knows the voodoo involved in their pricing.  It does seem odd though, that a PC with no OS would cost more than one with Windows.  Now, I know the argument - the companies that pay to preload Windows only trial software offset the

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CheckPoint Acquires Sourcefire

The money sure was flowing while I was in the UK, wasn't it? By acquiring Sourcefire, CheckPoint gets the Open Source Snort IDS along with Marty Roesch and a ton of other expertise.  In a letter from Marty, he states: "I’ll start by stating again what

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Oracle Acquires Innobase OY

Oracle recently announced that is has acquired Innobase.  For those who have never heard of Innobase, they are lead by Heikki Tuuri and develop InnoDB.  InnoDB brings transactions, row-level locking, foreign keys and other ACID features to MySQL.  Who uses InnoDB?  Sites like Yahoo! finance, Wikipedia and Google among many

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LinuxWorld UK Wrapup

With LinuxWorld come and gone, here's a quick wrapup.  London was once again a great time.  While I was extremely late the first day, I still had a full day to explore the city.  Between this year and last year I got to see  a fair bit of

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Returned from LinuxWorld

Back in NY from London and as you probably noticed the blog wasn't uploaded once.  Unfortunately, the wifi in London was either extremely poor (at LWE) or fairly expensive (about $11/hour at the hotel).  When you couple that with how busy things were, the blog just didn&

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London Bound

My plane leaves in a couple hours, so it's time to start packing.  Remember, if you'll be anywhere near London on October 5-6, make sure to stop into LWE UK in Olympia2.  I'll be stationed in the LQ booth, which is located in the

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The LSB and its Current Implementation

Ulrich has some problems with the LSB standard.  He makes some outstanding points and is clearly an extremely smart guy.  The problem as I see it is that the current LSB is broken and badly broken at that.  When the answer to a bug report is "use a slow

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Dell Releases its First Linux Consumer Product with Mandriva

"Dell releases its first Linux consumer product with Mandriva"... or at least that's what the press release says.  As I've mentioned on this blog many times in the past, a real OEM deal is critical to the success of Linux on the mainstream desktop.

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Vista is a Hardware Beast II

A follow up to this post. It appears that the hardware requirements are not as lofty as was originally reported.  As explained here, Nigel was evidentially detailing the optimal hardware setup and somehow things got misconstrued.  Amazing how fast things can tear through the blogosphere, isn't it?  You

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Vista is a Hardware Beast

I had to chuckle a bit when I saw the hardware requirements for Windows Vista.  The only req that seems reasonable to me is the 1GB of RAM for 32bit machines (it's 2GB for 64bit).  Let's take a quick look at the others.  While 256M of

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We're Going to London

Just a quick note to let everyone know that LQ will be exhibiting at LWE UK in London.  So far it looks like in addition to myself, we'll have at least acid_kewpie, david_ross and XavierP.  Last years trip to London was an excellent time and I&

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MySQL - Say It Ain't SCO

I have to admit I was quite surprised to hear that MySQL signed a deal (any deal) with SCO.  Surely it wasn't true.  ...and if it was true, it was probably along the lines of SCO buying a support contract and then touting it as a partnership to

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LQ Radio Interview #4 - Doc Searls

Just interviewed Doc Searls for LQ Radio.  Fairly informal, which is one thing I like about LQ radio and overall I think it's an interesting interview.  We coved a variety of topics including recent OSCON and LinuxWorld trips, Cluetrain, Google, splogs, RSS, Linux Trademarks and more. More than

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LQ ISO Hits 1,000,000 Downloads

In just over a year, LQ ISO has facilitated over 1,000,000 Linux ISO downloads.  We've added a couple interesting features, such as using GEO IP data to offer you the closest fast mirror (while retaining the freedom to pick any mirror you'd like), along

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HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OSS Licenses

You have to love it when one large company calls for two other competing companies to do something.  In this case Martin Fink calls for Sun and IBM to depreciate the CDDL and CPL, respectively.  First, having just attended the OSI BOF at OSCON, I am acutely aware of the

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OSCON and Gnomedex Reflection

It's clear having attended both OSCON and Gnomedex that the excitement is coming back to the web and Open Source communities.  The good news is that the irrational exuberance of the bubble has been replaced with rational exuberance.  People are excited again.   And for good reason - exciting

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OSCON OSI BOF

I attended the OSCON OSI BOF last night.  Overall I think it went extremely well and was quite encouraging.  So encouraging that I've offered to do whatever I can (if anything) to help.  One of the main topics discussed was License Proliferation.  While no one on the OSI

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OSCON Tuesday Evening Extravaganza

Just got back from the OSCON "Tuesday Evening Extravaganza".  First, I'd like to congratulate Doc, who was the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award winner in the "communication" category.  Actually, congratulations are in order for all the winners, as each one was well deserved.

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Firefox Tabs

Just wanted to thank everyone who contacted me about Firefox tabs after listening to the latest LQ Radio interview with Asa.  It seems that the behavior I was talking about, where you only get the tabs context if you have a tab open, can be easily changed by going to

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Interview with Asa

I just posted an interview I did with Asa over at LQ Radio.  We covered a lot of ground in 1:21, although I wanted to get into the Linux on the desktop topic much more than we ended up having time for.  He was already about 15 minutes late