Since I didn’t have any MySQL public courses planned this summer, I’ve been using my work time from the last week in the new eBox website.
I’m still far away from what I’d like, but I’m proud my design skills have improved considerably.
For those of you who still don’t know what it is, eBox is a server for the easy administration of corporate networks. eBox was included with the last release of Ubuntu. See eBox in Ubuntu
| Leveraging Replication to Optimize MySQL Backup & Disaster Recovery |
| In a global market, the uptime and performance of your MySQL database is critical. Taking the database offline to perform backups is simply not an option, but using replication is not a backup solution. So, how do you backup your data with minimal impact to your production environment? Using the ZRM for MySQL in conjunction with your replication slave, the ZRM for MySQL can back up your environment with no impact to production. |
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Scientists are pondering an idea of adding lime to seawater to reduce CO2 levels. The open source collaboration model is being used to flesh out the idea. READ MORE
I was browsing the web on this lazy Sunday afternoon and ran across a good article on the Rarest Words blog. The author was trying to get Django installed and running with Postgres. From the author's own admissions, he is not a Postgres fanatic.
Well, this and last year I hear everywhere that PostgreSQL is the way to go and that usage of mySQL in 2008 makes people puke… But without any real arguments (besides "Postgres is the way to go").
After some not so compatible errors with these not so compatible databases, the author did get it working and ran some benchmarks. Postgres did not turn out faster than MySQL. If you ask anyone in the Postgres community which database is faster, they will say Postgres. Ask anyone in the MySQL community and there's no telling what …
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Very cool OSS project for tracking and recovering your lost or stolen laptop. It?s a project from the University of Washington. This app sounds like a great way to address the 12,000 laptops lost per week at US airports. The UW website states: "Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go ? there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal... READ MORE
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VMWare announced that their 2008 revenue growth outlook would be "modestly below" its earlier stated target of 50% and that CEO and founder Diane Greene would be resigning immediately. That double whammy sent VMWare stock tumbling by more than 25%. VMWare appears to have increased competition, not only from Microsoft's recently released near final Hyper-V technology, but also from open source variants from Red Hat, Citrix, Sun and others based on the Xen hypervisor virtual machine monitor. All of these choices are pretty much free, which will be a tough price for VMWare to match. In an odd twist of... READ MORE