In this article, Sean Hull looks at the first five out of ten dials that you can turn to get an initial MySQL vanilla install working for your specific application requirements.
What does an eye doctor with a penchant for inventions have to do with Microsoft's Zune, and will the company ante up with him in a patent dispute or fight to the finish?
<b>Stop:</b> "In order to solve this problem, Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini proposed to deduce cost (and weight!) of textbooks by encouraging schools to adopt digital textbooks starting from 2011."
<b>Bradley M. Kuhn:</b> "Boy, do I hate it when a FLOSS project is given a hard time unfairly. I was this morning greeted with news from many places that OpenSSL, one of the most common FLOSS software libraries used for cryptography, was somehow severely vulnerable."
<b>Tux Radar:</b> "And with Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many more people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents."
Developers behind the open source WebKit browser engine and Mozilla Firefox are seeking to take plugins out of the regular browser process to help make the browser more stable. Will it work?
<b>OSNews:</b> "Software patents, however, are only valid in some parts of the world, so an enterprising developer has started a project that was sure to come eventually: Firefox builds with H264 support."
A small business taking marketing tips from Disney isn't as Goofy or Mickey Mouse as it sounds. Find out how you can incorporate effective marketing strategies from the Mouse House.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Linux is such a strong operating system for two primary reasons – by design and with the help of security systems like AppArmor and SELinux."
<b>Linux Today Blog:</b> "The endless SCO saga is finally at an end, and justice has prevailed. But without Groklaw, would it have ended differently? "
Building WCF services declaratively in XAML lets you integrate services with workflows and provides flexibility that identical services implemented in code cannot.
Marketing guru Andrew Lock interviews the CEO of MemberGate, the premiere membership website, plus tips on creating a loyalty program for your best customers.
<b>Datamation:</b> ""All video codecs are covered by patents," Jobs said in the e-mail, according to Roy. "A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other 'open source' codecs now"