<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>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."
Why reinvent the wheel when you can borrow concepts from other industries to create your own loyalty program? Plus, a resource for creating membership websites and recurring income.
Why reinvent the wheel when you can borrow concepts from other industries to create your own loyalty program? Plus, a resource for creating membership websites and recurring income.
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>Handle With Linux:</b> "Too bad it's only for professional use the HGZ Linux based coffee machine. I'd love to have on of these. A Dream come true. The Linux coffee maker."
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.
<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."
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>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."
I'm building a Qt application that needs to use libssh, a SSH client library. libssh (understandably) performs its own network connections, however Qt has its own infrastructure for network connections (QTcpSocket etc).
Should I worry about these differences? Should I be trying to make libssh make network connections via QTcpSocket... Or if it works fine on the platforms I'm targeting, is that good enough?
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.
White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt makes news at the RSA show, announcing the declassification of the cybersecurity plan developed two years ago.