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. Read more »

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. via The Farm Read more »

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 machine that solves the Rubik’s Cube. I didn’t realize how many different solutions on the Internet there were to solving it. I think I might run to the store and try to find one, make a bet with someone (you know solve it in less than 60 seconds) and be done with it. Thanks to Read more »

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. Might have to go out and get one this week. Read more »

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 people come up to you asking what is Linux and you laugh. Inside you think that they don’t deserve to use such software. Stick with Windows you think and never even realize that we are going against what we want. What makes geeks feel so special? Is it the fact that we can master Read more »

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 little branches in the watch window, but what fun is that? Wouldn’t it be cooler if you had something like a context menu item which creates a window containing your DataSet? Yeah, I think so to. That’s why I’m going to be using this tool all the time while debugging code that uses a DataSet. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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

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 article we will look at how to install the Apache Web server in such an environment. Read more »