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Entries from July 2008

Lazy summer? So I’m writing an ebook for DBAs!

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©Editor B
Well, it looks like next month could prove itself to be quite light on writing assignments. The question has come up many times as to what I should do during this down-time. 

While I still have the potential to write articles across [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Oracle

Webbing telcom companies

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©roney

In an attempt to compete with Cisco on a grander scale, Brocade is poised to buy Foundry Networks for nearly $3 billion.
As a maker of hardware and software that connects corporate servers and data storage, Brocade is thinking that the acquisition can [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech

Don’t call home (U.S.) and think before you type

July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©cheetah100

In a rose garden ceremony President Bush signed a bill that grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. And it overhauls rules about government eavesdropping.

By my standards this smells like something else than a [...]

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Tags: Associated Press

opensolaris - Microsoft like reboots

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

©Robyn Gallagher
The saga continues on my recently installed opensolaris system. When last I posted, I was going to put it up on the shelf until the next release. This was because of the network bugs I encountered. Well, I booted up this machine [...]

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Tags: Opinion

Windows 7 - Are we ready already?

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

©My Boy Dodger

What’s all the hype about anyway?   Isn’t Windows 7 at least two years away? Guess since most of us are still on XP and probably won’t upgrade to Vista, we should really start thinking about Windows 7 as the next Windows [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech