From growing your email list to creating an online community, a contest can be a valuable small business marketing tool. Strutta CEO, Ben Pickering, offers Web shop owners' tips for running online contests.
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "Making music on Linux used to be something for masochists. Luckily this is long something of the past, as nowadays lot's of cool Linux software and compatible hardware is available to musicians."
Despite the poor economy, adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management helped this segment of the software market grow.
The arrival of Intel's Nehalem-EX has pretty much signaled the end of Microsoft's support. High-end x86 servers now sport many features previously available only in Itanium.
It's ironic -- Sun took great pains to license its open source OS, OpenSolaris, and with it ZFS, under the ostensibly home-grown CDDL license. Now, with the plug pulled on Open Solaris, the future looks grim for the popular and highly regarded ZFS. Unless it can be absorbed into the Linux kernel that Sun carefully positioned it to avoid.
It's ironic -- Sun took great pains to license its open source OS, OpenSolaris, and with it ZFS, under the ostensibly home-grown CDDL license. Now, with the plug pulled on Open Solaris, the future looks grim for the popular and highly regarded ZFS. Unless it can be absorbed into the Linux kernel that Sun carefully positioned it to avoid.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Linux is such a strong operating system for two primary reasons – by design and with the help of security systems like AppArmor and SELinux."
<b>BBC News:</b> "Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff."
In this ongoing series on lightweight Linux desktops, Juliet Kemp takes us on a tour of Windowmaker, the popular fast, lightweight window manager based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface. How does Windowmaker measure up in this era of fancy special effects GUIs?
Small business technology's come a long way, which means it's a lot easier to take your network files on the road without worrying about file synchronization. Let Windows Offline Files do it for you.
Small business technology's come a long way, which means it's a lot easier to take your network files on the road without worrying about file synchronization. Let Windows Offline Files do it for you.
Backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft Access abound. Danny Lesandrini shares some of the utilities he has collected over the years and what he finds practical to use on a daily basis.
MySQL is a great database for web-facing applications, however, it tends to be a bit rough around the edges. Enter Maatkit, a great toolkit with a bewildering array of command line tools that fill the gap where MySQL's native tools leave off. From data replication to query profiling and optimizing, Maatkit has tools to make you smarter, and help you get your job done.
MySQL is a great database for web-facing applications, however, it tends to be a bit rough around the edges. Enter Maatkit, a great toolkit with a bewildering array of command line tools that fill the gap where MySQL's native tools leave off. From data replication to query profiling and optimizing, Maatkit has tools to make you smarter, and help you get your job done.
While February saw one of the largest patch batches ever from Microsoft, the forecast for March looks much better, with only two bug fixes on the agenda.
<b>Raiden's Realm:</b> "One of the things that's been wandering around my mind lately (one of thousands) is the thought of the wild woods. In other words, places in the world that are away from civilization, away from the normal creature comforts of daily life, such as areas in Northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, sections of Africa, and others like that."