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>Groklaw:</b> "SCO has filed its "renewed" motion for judgment "as a matter of law", with its supporting memorandum. They ask the judge to rule over the heads of the jury and decide that the jury "simply got it wrong" when it ruled that SCO didn't get the copyrights in 1995 from Novell. In the alternative, they'd like a new trial."
<b>Jim Lynch:</b> "Hmm. It seems that one VERY prominent platform is missing. Yep, that's right. Amazon still has not released a Kindle application for Linux."
<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."
If you don’t know where to start when setting Oracle auditing parameters, just start with what Oracle recommends. In this article, we set the default auditing as recommended by Oracle.
<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."
The Linux/Free Software/Open Source world is cram-full of first-class security applications. Best of all, they're not just for Linux, but protect Mac and Windows too. Cynthia Harvey collects 75 to share with us.
<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."
<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."
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.
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.
<b>Groklaw:</b> "So. Now I know. Now we all know. Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone."
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.
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.