eWeek writes, MySQL 5 Arrives Three years in the making, MySQL 5.0 was finally released on Monday. MySQL AB delivers new, and long-awaited, ANSI SQL features in this latest version of the popular open-source DBMS. These new features include both read-only and updated views, stored procedures row-level triggers, both read-only and non-scrolling server-side cursors, and […]
Archives for October 2005
Bank Shuts Down Web Site After Phishing Attack
Would you like to lose all of the money in your bank accounts? Fall for a phishing attack. These are web sites which are cleverly designed to look like your real bank’s web site but which actually collect your personal information and hand it over to crooks and thieves. Here is a short story about […]
Highly Recommended: OpenOffice.org 2.0
The long anticipated version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org (the $free Microsoft Office "replacement") was released yesterday. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the equivalent of Microsoft Office Professional: Access, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint plus a drawing program which Office does not have. Additionally, OOo can create Adobe Acrobat files, which Office cannot. Did I mention that OOo costs nothing? […]
What Computers Do At Night
Ever wonder what your computer does at night while you are sleeping? This movie will show you. Oh… and turn up the volume on your speakers before you click on that link.
Free Database Software
MySQL 5.0 Database software, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, can be tremendously expensive, often costing more than the rest of the entire computing system (hardware, operating system, and application software). It looks like this equation may be changing. The Register reports in, MySQL destined for ‘majority’ market share MySQL is fast approaching majority […]
The Top 5 Reasons Your Home Office Is Not Working Out
As a home office worker, I about fell out of my chair when I read this list from TopFive.com Unlike your co-workers, your kids are smart enough not to buy your cover story of “naughty copier elves” when they find your butt-scans. Every office has at least one total a-hole, and you’re the only one […]
Doctors challenge baby feeding myths
A large sense of skepticism rises in me whenever people start to tell me how babies and children “should” be raised. I figure that we humans have been around for a long time and most of us got reared to adulthood without parenting books, classes or guidelines created by medical or governmental committees I am […]
Laptop Will Not Hibernate
This is so frustrating. I have this nifty new laptop that I have upgraded to 1.25 GB of memory and it will not hibernate. Virtually all of the time, I get a bubble that says, “Windows – System Error, insufficient system resources exist to complete the API,” just like in this screen snapshot which I […]
Antique Books in Your [Virtual] Hands
You have access to pure magic in the computer screen you are looking at right now. Through the prestidigitations of the British Library, you can actually examine books hundreds of years old. BL has picked 15 fascinating examples including One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks Mercator’s first European atlas from the 1570s The original Alice […]
Two More Flights
Last Saturday was simply beautiful with blue sky, calm winds, and moderate temperatures. I reserved N6343D and took Kevin and David up again, this time to dawdle about in the sky over our house, their school, the local baseball stadium and whatever else caught our fancy. Along the way I flew over to Spirit of […]
Coming to a Browser Near You: Microsoft Office Replacement for Free
This press release on Sun’s web site announces the new agreement between Sun and Google for Google Desktop on Sun’s Java platform. That is very nice but the last couple of paragraphs hint at something much bigger: Only the Beginning The distribution of Java and the Google Toolbar underscores Google’s advocacy of Java technology…. The […]
A Better Photographic Mousetrap
Every once in awhile, someone integrates existing technologies in a way that clearly makes life better in simple, clear ways. I think that Kodak has done so with their EasyShare-One camera. Wired News reports it well in, Death of the Digital Middleman After a summer-long delay, Kodak has begun shipping the first digital camera with […]
Clueless Republicans
Gargh! SPACE.com’s article includes, “A group of Republican lawmakers led by Mike Pence of Indiana last week said the $104 billion to replace the shuttles with a new spaceship and rockets to carry astronauts back to the moon ought to be canceled to help pay to rebuild the hurricane-wrecked Gulf Coast.” I wonder if we […]
