No matter how the war over the Ubuntu buttons ends, it highlights the tension between democracy and meritocracy within Ubuntu and the greater FOSS community.
<b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "Sometimes you just have to "bite the bullet" and do what needs to be done, rather than what you would prefer to do, or what you would really like to do. That's what happened to me with my friends' laptop over the weekend."
The online auctioneer and the National Retail Federation announced plans to work with the FBI to help stamp out organized crime syndicates selling stolen goods online.
The online auctioneer and the National Retail Federation announced plans to work with the FBI to help stamp out organized crime syndicates selling stolen goods online.
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "The sidux distribution is one which has been on my to-review list for a while. It's a small project which makes a bold effort to take Debian's Unstable repository and turn it into a functioning day-to-day operating system."
Take a small box. Add a 64-bit CPU, two SATA hard drives, a Compact Flash slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and quiet operation, and what do you have? The VIA M'SERV mini-server. Could this be the perfect Linux box?
Database administrators are often faced with the need to learn where features of his/her system live or reside on a less familiar system. Steve Callan approaches this need by mapping SQL Server features back into Oracle Database.
Hi Everyone...
Consider the following table....
hotel facilities
1 internet
1 swimming pool
1 wi-fi
1 parking
2 swimming pool
2 sauna
2 parking
3 toilets
3 bungee-jumping
3 internet
4 parking
4 swimming pool
I need to select only the hotels that have parking, swimming pool and internet....?
I worked out the following....
SELECT hotel
FROM table
WHERE facilties IN(internet, swimming pool, parking)
This query selects the hotels that has atleast one among the choices.
But what i need is a query that selects the hotels that has ALL of the selected facilities...
Thanks for your suggestions....
<b>eWeek:</b> "Data Apple collects about users from its vaunted iPhone is so valuable that the company must build a special search engine just to keep Google from gleaning insight from that data, analysts say."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "Want to buy your very own Linux company? Two important ones, Mandriva and Novell are looking for buyers."<br> <i>Link fixed --ed.</i>
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "The forthcoming version of Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, has just gone beta and it's going to be the most important Ubuntu release in years. "
New technology from Maven backers Sonatype is designed to make open source Java build management technology more consumable to Eclipse and enterprise users.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Intel and Nokia are two of the largest tech companies on the planet, but when it comes to developing a new mobile operating system, they've opted to not just team up, but to enlist the legions of open source developers out there."
For the second time in as many weeks, Facebook users are being tricked into downloading adware disguised as a video of attractive young women in bikinis.
I am trying to create a simple test application to transfer data back and forth between my server and Android device.
The following are the things I aim for:
Ability to upload data and files to the server.
To be able to view my files on the server.
To be able to download the files from the server to my android device.
Ability of the server to send me updates on the files or notifications to my phone.
I need a safe and secure way to do these things.
I have tried these:
HTTPPost requests onto the server and echoing the output accordingly and capturing the HTTPresponse and parsing it.
For files I have tried using MultipartEntity, but I think that has been deprecated.
Is there a reliable way to determine whether or not two files are the same? For example, two files with the same size and type may or may not be the same binarilly (yeah, I know it's not really a word). I assume that comparing one or two checksums of the files will help, but I wonder:
How reliable are checksums at determining whether two
files are different; what are the chances of two different files having the same checksum?
Would reliability increase by
applying additional checksum
comparisons?
Which checksum algorithm(s) would be
the most efficient and/or reliable?
Any ideas, suggestions or thoughts are appreciated!
P.S. The code for this is being written in Java running on a nix system, but generic or platform agnostic input is most helpful.
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "In what may have been Google's worst kept secret in years, Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech and Sony, is on its way to delivering the Web to your television. What will they be using to do this? Why, they'll be using Google's Android Linux, of course."