<b>The H Open:</b> "The KDE developers have released version 4.4.2 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the latest bug fix release for the popular Linux desktop. In addition to several translation updates and stability improvements, the second KDE 4.4 update addresses a number of issues found in the previous 4.4.1 release."
More than 7,000 Vanderbilt University students had their personal information compromised last month after a thief made off with a professor's desktop computer.
<b>Federal Computer Week: </b>"The challenges to government's adoption and participation in open-source communities is often thought to be a simpe culture clash, but in reality it goes deeper than that, accordning to NASA's newly-appointed chief technology officer."
Anyone who has spent a fair amount of time working with databases comes to realize that common tasks like backups and data transfers should be run from a script rather than interactively. In this tutorial, we will be writing a common batch file to back up a table to a file.
Tiny wall wart computers are everywhere, providing useful services, ease of use, and using little power. Paul Ferrill reviews the CloudPlug, a cross-platform, expandable backup server for both local and offsite storage.
Indexes are a feature that you can enable on your MySQL tables to increase performance, but they do have some downsides. Read on as we review some of the best practices for achieving the right balance between query and update speed through column indexing in MySQL.
<b>OStatic</b> "AOL has closed the doors on its Open AIM program. Pidgin developer Mark Doliner where to go from here to support AIM, but maybe it's time to close the door on the protocol altogether."
White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt makes news at the RSA show, announcing the declassification of the cybersecurity plan developed two years ago.
<b>ars Technica:</b> "Watching two proprietary software companies deeply opposed to computer user freedom lob accusations back and forth about who is more opposed to freedom has been surreal, to say the least."
MySQL's crosstabs contain aggregate functions on two or more fields, presented in a tabular format. In a multi-aggregate crosstab query, two different functions can be applied to the same field or the same function can be applied to multiple fields on the same (row or column) axis. Rob Gravelle shows you how to apply two different functions to the same field in order to create grouping levels in the row axis.
New zero-day flaw could enable attacks on Microsoft's SharePoint Server if a user clicks a booby-trapped link, giving new meaning to the term SharePoint collaboration.
<b>OSNews:</b> "Other codecs often come up in these discussions. The distinction between the availability of source code and the ownership of the intellectual property in that available source code is critical."