The computing giant will certify and support MySQL, the leading open-source database program, and JBoss, a popular Java-based application server, on HP’s industry-standard servers.

Nice.

Quick and simple presentation on how you can speedup the loading of a PHP application. Glad to also see that the programmer included some humor in the slides to make them easily digestable.
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The Rubik’s Cube. I solved the thing a total of 0 times out of about 971 attempts. Sometimes I would get a color on one whole side and was scared to move it after that since I matched one color completely. Well good ol’ JP Brown decided it would be cool to build a lego [...]

Robert hits the nail on the head as to why Linux is so dangerous to pretty much every tech establishment (company) in the world. The OS becomes the commodity. Once that happens, its all up in the air for any takers.
I didn’t even know you could do all those things with the Linksys router though. [...]

We want the world to switch to Apple or Linux or anything else that isn’t Windows. We want the world to use Open Source software. We know it would be so cool to get everyone free of proprietary software.
The problem is we have egos that cause a barrier for everyone else to join in. Some [...]

Debugging DataSets in Visual Studio just got easier. Whiel something like this will most likely be available out of the box with Visual Studio 2005, current users of Visual Studio 2003 have no easy way of figuring out what exactly is in a DataSet while debugging their code. Sure, you can expand all of the [...]

This is really nothing new, but I link to it to help the poor author out by offering my wisdom. When you do an article like this, images are a necessity! Take this as a lesson learned.

Nothing surprising here since this has been occurring for the last two years, but it’s always good to read about it. Seems as though Linux is still putting more a hurting on the Unix market than the Windows server market. Just give it some time.

Barbie’s geeky brother, complete with laptop. No, he won’t fix your computer… but he’ll get a good laugh at the office!

Not useful for securing Apache, but very useful if your Apache install gets rooted.

The chroot daemon allows you to run a program and have it see a given directory as the root (/) directory. This effectively locks the process into its very own filesystem (”chroot jail”) isolated from the real / filesystem. In this [...]

A fun read on a minor system build involving a lot of light. I used to have some lights in my case and got annoyed when trying to sleep. It like having a gigantic nightlight in my room. Sometime I figured all the insects in the neighborhood would come knocking on my door so they [...]

I saw this at a couple of places yesterday and admit that is probably one of the funniest things I have played in a while. Favorite character: Fat-Ass He-Man.

Tongue moderately in cheek article on classifying users via thermodynamics

This week’s edition covers the three basic (there are a couple more) network troubleshooting command-line tools: ifconfig, dig, and ping. If you have been using Linux or BSD or some other *nix for the last couple of years and never touched ping or ifconfig then do something, just get away from here :-P. Fortunately, dig [...]

I like this one because it details the steps involved when booting up the computer and how each one effects the overall time in the bootup scheme. I recently read somewhere (forgot to bookmark it, doh!) that engineers were able to reduce startup time to 2 seconds. Although I wasn’t sure that they completely shutdown [...]

I am sure the guy wasn’t laughing when this was happening, but I was sure as hell laughing while I was reading this article. Glad to see he was able to use some OS software to come in and save the day. He uses some software called BG-Rescue Linux and recommends it anytime your NTFS-based [...]