Comparing Cursor and Set Approaches in Processing Relational Data
Packt: "MySQL introduced cursor in its release 5. You create a cursor to define a set of rows from one or more table that you want to access row-by-row sequentially. If your need is really to access the rows one at a time then use cursor."
OpenOffice.org in Polish City of Łeba
Polish Linux: "The issue of Polish institutions and public administration in general, being dependent on closed-source software providers, the main one being Microsoft, is largely spoken about. There are exceptions among the institutions however, and one of them will be featured in our today’s article."
Make Your Graphical Text Semantic and Searchable
IBM Developerworks: "However, without actual text on a page, search engines like Google and Yahoo, as well as ad services like Google Ads, are hampered in identifying and classifying a site. This article explains how to get the beauty and elegance of image-based text, without sacrificing semantic meaning on a Web page."
Linux Dedicated server
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Linux Foundation Opening Doors to Individual Participation
Linux.com: "The nonprofit Linux Foundation (LF), which coordinates an assortment of Linux-oriented standardization efforts and employs key developers such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds, has added to its Web site a gateway toward individual -- as opposed to corporate -- membership. Individuals can join through the site by paying yearly dues, and will get a small voice in Foundation matters in exchange -- plus their choice of T-shirts."
Reverse SSH Tunneling
HowtoForge: "Have you ever wanted to ssh to your Linux box that sits behind NAT? Now you can with reverse SSH tunneling."
You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig But it's Still Vista
Cyber Cynic: "I'm going to say something you never expected to hear me say: "Thank you Microsoft."
Hack Attack Week
Builder AU: "It wasn't a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project -- as all were compromised by hackers this week."
UCSD's StarCAVE Is a Real 3D Super-High-Def Danger Room
Gizmodo: "UC at San Diego has the closest thing to an X-Men-style Danger Room in its new StarCAVE, a small room that entirely surrounds you, hurtling 68 million pixels at your eyeballs at near-perfect resolution. Pop on polarized glasses and the whole thing goes 3D."
Editor's Note: What Linux Can Do That Those Big Proprietary Innovators Can't
I have another list, and this is a much more fun list. It is a large list that is always growing. We could also include the free BSDs- FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, whose contributions to Linux and FOSS are well-deserving of more recognition. This is "What Linux Can Do That Those Big Ole Proprietary Innovators Can't".
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
OStatic: "It is also able to export altered files into a "hybrid" PDF format -- the imported ODF file becomes a source file embedded in the exported PDF."
Webcams on Linux a Hit
ITPro: "A few weeks back I thought I'd give the video aspect of Skype a go, so pulled out a Creative NX Pro webcam and put it in place."
Get Thin Client Benefits for Free With openThinClient
Linux.com: "GPLv2-licensed openThinClient, based on an Ubuntu server operating system, uses server components and a management system written in Java for midsize to large organizations."
Symbian VP Attacks Linux for Mobiles
TechRadar: "Jerry Panagrossi, VP of Symbian's North American operations, believes the Linux platform is not fit for purpose when it comes to working as a mobile phone OS."
Intellectual Ventures: A Massive Patent Pyramid Scheme?
The Open Road: "Techdirt goes into depth on ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, adding a slew of new reasons to consider the patent-hoarding company the ultimate in creepiness."
Asus Eee PC 1000 Plus Ubuntu: Big Power in a Small Package
LinuxPlanet: "For this review ZaReason provided an Asus Eee PC 1000 loaded with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Basic specs for this unit include a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of memory, a 40 GB Solid State Disk (SSD) drive and a 10-inch screen."
Microsoft and Novell Deliver on Virtualization Interoperability
Microsoft and Novell have made good on their 2006 interoperability pact. Microsoft and Novell jointly announced that Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise has been optimized to run as an "enlightened" guest on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor platform. Windows Server 2008 customers have been able to run as a virtualized guest on SUSE since last June, when SUSE became the first member of Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program, which Novell has helped to fine-tune. Now SUSE is optimized to run on Microsoft's Hyper-V as well.
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell
Computerworld chats to Simon Peyton-Jones about the development of Haskell. Peyton-Jones speaks in depth about his desire to 'do one thing well', as well as interest in lazy functional programming languages and their place in a world with rapidly increasing multi-core CPUs and clusters.
awesome 3.0 Released
After 6 months of development and more than 1000 change sets, the final version of awesome 3.0 has been released. 'awesome' is a frame-work window manager, which also supports tiling window management. This major release brings a lot of new features. The whole configuration file is now write in the Lua language and use a simple API. This allows to modify and control every corner of the window manager. This version is based on XCB, a new low level library which communicate with the X server. Pango usage also enhances text rendering.
Bordeaux 1.6 beta 1 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD
Wine-Reviews: "Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a .sh installer, the same one that we use on Linux, so you will need to have py-gtk installed for the installer to work properly."
How to add metadata to digital pictures from the command line
Linux.com: "ExifTool is an efficient, flexible, and portable way to manage image, audio, and video metadata under Linux. In this article we'll see how to use ExifTool to manage EXIF data inside JPEG files."
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