Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL.
While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality [...]
Personal offsite backups stink. I’ve been using a shared hosting account to try and get my backups up and going, which is usually against the terms of service and likely to be cancelled by them at any point. In looking at other options, there are lots of great articles out there covering this [...]
Thanks to Lenovo for making a Bootable CD image of the BIOS update available for my T60.
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