Microsoft continues to support its aging Windows Mobile phone operating system even as the company hopes to take the market by storm with Windows Mobile 7 which isn't ready yet.
<b>Daniweb:</b> "A new version (9.0) of PostgreSQL is in beta and ready for public testing. If version 9.0 lives up to its proposed feature list, then it is serious competition for MySQL"
Among the big news this week in green data center management: Singapore pledges to cut carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2020, and for the second year in a row, data security is the primary concern and driver of IT asset disposition compliance efforts.
What is the best way to prevent unintended updates or deletes in a table? The small changes may not be so hard to recover from, but what if every record in the table underwent a change? How can you protect users from themselves and how do you protect yourself from you?
A new World Cup-themed malware campaign is incorporating a two-pronged strategy to target and infect large Brazilian finance, chemical and manufacturing firms.
Among the big news this week for those looking to make their data center more environmentally friendly: Two IBM POWER7-based servers become the first four-processor systems in the industry to qualify for Energy Star status; NetApp announces plans to have execs, and other on hand to discuss green computing at SNW Spring 2010; and the feds are examining how cloud will save money and energy.
<b>The H Open:</b> "At this year's Google I/O developer conference, currently taking place in San Francisco, Google announced the availability of a collection of high quality open source fonts for the web."
<b>The Register:</b> "Google is "very confident" that the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec will stand up to the sort of patent attack Steve Jobs warned of when he defended Apple's decision to shun VP8's predecessor, the open-source Ogg Theora."
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "As with most tasks in Linux, there are multiple ways to handle removable devices, but for removable media in particular, KDE's primary tool is the Plasma Device Notifier Widget."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using only open source software, and license the source content and final product under free, re-use-friendly terms."
<b>Groklaw:</b> "When IBM said that TurboHercules was a member of organizations Microsoft is a member of, it was particularly talking about OpenMainframe.org. It's an organization that seems dedicated to attacking IBM's mainframe business. It describes its purpose like this:"
<b>Begin Linux:</b> "Functions are a script within a script which can be defined by the user and stored in memory, allowing you to reuse the function repeatedly. This also provides a modular aspect that allows you to debug one function at a time by disabling functions."
Rebecca Bond returns from an IDUG Conference with some short, compact knowledge bits that return big results. These quick tips and fixes make great additions to any database administrator's toolbox.
<b>Systhread:</b> "System Administrators who remember the day when they did not have a graphics display rarely think about wanting to time travel for the pure joy of using a terminal. It is possible, however, to virtually do so by using either all or mostly text only utilities and perhaps a retro looking X windows desktop. In this text a look at a small experiment to see how well that went in one particular instance."