Linux at retail has been a hit-and-miss proposition for more than a decade. Canonical's new CEO explains her company's strategy for getting desktop Linux into more customers' hands.
If your notebook PC runs Ultimate or Enterprise editions of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can increase security by encrypting the hard drive with BitLocker. We'll show you how.
If your notebook PC runs Ultimate or Enterprise editions of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can increase security by encrypting the hard drive with BitLocker. We'll show you how.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Although MySQL works exceptionally well from the command line (it's not as hard as one would think), having a solid GUI tool just opens the user up to learning more powerful tasks and getting more work done faster."
<b>Maciej Piosik:</b> Therefore I would like to ask the FOSS community members, both developers and users, to help me with my research. Your motivations of using this kind of software is the key to my study.
Emery Fletcher doesn't think much of all the overwrought iPad hype, nor the device itself, saying it is not a real computer, but a PAD-- "Passive Amusement Device."
<b>ars Technica:</b> "Microsoft's role in forming the CodePlex foundation reflects the company's growing acceptance of the open source development model and willingness to collaborate with other commercial vendors on open source technology."
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "But to quote Yoda, "Short of native game choices we are." There's a reason for that...I mean aside from the myth that the Linux market is too small to support game development."
It's a challenge to adapt to change, but the changes in IBM DB2 9.7's Database Administrator authority bring significant database security benefits. Join Rebecca Bond as she shares some twists, some turns, and some clues regarding DB2 9.7's Database Administrator (DBADM) authority.
It's no surprise that the concept of a proxy has made its way into the database arena. The MySQL Proxy sits between your application and your MySQL database. Future articles will discuss the myriad of uses for this technology.
<b>WWdN: In Exile:</b> "It's taken me this long to share it, because shortly after I upgraded my Macs to Snow Leopard, all of my Macs and my HP scanner stopped talking to each other."
<b>LinuxPR:</b> EightVirtues.com Computers and ElementHTPC.com are proud to announce the EVTV! An innovative Home Theater PC designed to deliver a fully functional computing environment for your television alongside web media services like Hulu Desktop, Boxee TV, YouTube XL, and more.
<b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "Sometimes, though, it is possible to get a bit too far ahead of the general development/release cycle. The HP Pavillion dm1-1020ez that I purchased in January is a case in point."
<b>CertCities:</b> "Linux comes with a number of utilities that can be used to monitor one or more of these performance parameters. The following sections introduce a few of these utilities and show how to understand the information presented by them"
Despite its benefits, SQL Server Integration Services Import Export Wizard has a number of limitations, resulting in part from a new set of rules that eliminate implicit data type conversion mechanisms present in Data Transformation Services. This article discusses a method that addresses such limitations, focusing in particular on importing the content of Excel spreadsheets into SQL Server.
<b>The H Open:</b> "Moodle , the E-learning platform, is one of the most significant and successful projects in open source. Despite its success, with hundreds of thousands of people being taught by courses written in Moodle, as a product it is not well known."
<b>The Register:</b> "The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation's quiet switcheroo last week."