<b>IT News Today:</b> "Unfortunately, Ubuntu and I must part ways, as well as any community involvement I once had with it. What strained this relationship? Read on for a first hand account."
However scary this may read, it's true, and contrary to the feelings that the title of this article may have created, this is actually a blessing in disguise for those who have been involved with "value driven" SEO strategies. The days of scrounging the net for links from every website/ community possible is over. Webmasters and SEO experts who have been following such strategies will find that most of the links they are building are getting removed from search indexes every couple of months.
Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.
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If you work with SSMS, you’ll know how frustrating it can be when tasks you perform every day aren’t part of the core features. Malden Prajdic certainly did, which is why he developed his free SSMS Tools Pack. Now on its second version, Grant Fritchey explains the functionality of this great free plugin.
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I'm using an Asus K43E laptop with:
- Intel Core i3 Sandy Bridge 2.1GHz
- 2GB DDR3
- Onboard graphics
On the Ubuntu download page, the 32bit version is marked as "recommended", but thecommunity documentation page suggests otherwise:
Unless you have specific reasons to choose 32-bit, we recommend 64-bit to utilise the full capacity of your hardware.
I use my laptop mostly for Eclipse, apart from regular office applications, then does it make any difference when choosing between 32bit and 64bit?
SQL Server Reporting Services allows you to embed indicators and Gauges in your report to analyze the data and its state. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent state value of Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
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<b>The Register: </b>"Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264 from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."
SQLskills is recording their knowledge in conjunction with Pluralsight for you to view from the time and place of your choosing. And it's free in September. Read more to find out how you can get access.
Learn Agile Database Development Best PracticesAgile database development experts Sebastian Meine and Dennis Lloyd are running day-long classes designed to complement Red Gate’s SQL in the City US tour. Classes will be held in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Seattle. Register Now.
Join the next Live PartnerCast at partners.oracle.com on Wednesday, November 13th at 10:00AM PT. In addition to a review of the latest news happening around the OPN community, interviews with Oracle experts will discuss the following topics:
Communications updates around the Acme Packet and Tekelec acquisitions
Primavera updates around the Skire and Instantis acquisitions
CX updates focusing on Oracle SRM (Social Relationship Management)
Learn more about OPN PartnerCasts.
With Report Builder and SSMS, there isn't much you can't do in the way of the common reports and visualisations. One of the more interesting visualisations uses maps, and that, combined with layers, makes for an impressive way of representing data.
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Your computer consumes a large amount of power just idling there awaiting your command, does charging a smartphone or tablet off one of the USB ports impose much of a demand on it? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. Image available as wallpaper at WallpapersWide.
Brought to the forefront in 2010 with Stuxnet, the infamous worm aimed at sabotaging industrial infrastructure, the use of stolen digital certificates is relatively new. Stuxnet's creators digitally signed its rootkit components with stolen certificates from JMicron and RealTek, a pair of semiconductor manufacturers. The worm's existence and complexity caught the security community by surprise. In fact, many researchers predicted that malware creators would begin adopting the same technique to work around driver signature enforcement employed by Microsoft in its 64-bit versions of Windows V...
When I started this blog in July 2003 there weren't many available blog engines build atop ASP.NET. One of the more interesting ones at the time was Scott Watermasysk 's .Text blog engine (which eventually became part of Community Server . Over the past...(read more)Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
You can now stop wasting time and money chasing algorithms as you can now enjoy personalized SEO workshops which have been rated premiere worldwide and where you will get all your SEO questions answered by some of the most experienced and knowledgeable experts within your own local community. These workshops offer basic, intermediate and advanced SEO training which is held over two to five days and in addition there is a six month mentoring program that is included. These workshops will enable you to create your own website pages which will become visible to thousands of visitors.
One of the most enjoyable things about SQLBits is reading all the blog posts/reviews after the event. We are normally fortunate enough not to have pissed anyone off and so the posts are generally positive. Most pieces are from attendees however this piece is from a wife of a sponsor http://iknowmarketing.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/events-community-vs-commercial/ . Its a nice piece for us as it highlights how we work and that how we focus on making the event personal for all those involved. We deal...(read more)
There's always a lot of talk around SEO tools in the webmaster and SEO community. Some say a good piece of SEO software is all you need to improve your search rankings and get that desired spot on top of Google search results.
<b>Red Hat News:</b> "As with previous Fedora releases, we'll once again be highlighting some of the new and improved features in a series of blogs leading up to our latest release, Fedora 13, anticipated in mid-May. First up on our list is NetworkManager."
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
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Red Hat's community Linux has undergone a major development change, with the bleeding edge Rawhide splitting off to become its own branch. A look at what this means, and why it matters.
<b>Linux Operating System:</b> "Jan Mette (funkyou) passed away of as-yet unknown causes. Jan was a major contributor to the Arch Linux community, the creator of KDEmod and a founding member of the Chakra team."
<b>beltzner:</b> "Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product development efforts."
When you need to restore but aren't 100% sure about the contents of your backup files, what do you do? Head to the headers. Grant Fritchey explains how to find the useful bits in these huge stores of information and make sure you restore the right files.
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The Linux community was abuzz about Miguel de Icaza’s controversial new stance on Mono. But in reality it was a classic case of Internet misinformation.
The JCP.org calendar has been updated to include Public EC Meeting Teleconferences, as required by JCP Program version 2.8 (as defined in JSR 348)--dates are Tuesday, 26 June and Tuesday, 20 November. The second hour of these JCP EC Teleconferences will be open to the public. There will also be a Public EC Meeting during the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco CA this October, exact day and time tbd.
This is a call for agenda items from the community; please post them here.
Entity Framework provides three different approaches to deal with the model, and each one has its own pros and cons. Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan discusses the advantages of the Model, Database, and Code First approaches to modeling in Entity Framework 5.0. Entity Framework still has its share of issues and is not widely accepted yet - but through contributing to its ongoing development thecommunity can make it more stable and increase its adoption.