Linux and Small Business: The Ongoing Disconnect
While Red Hat, Novell, Canonical and other Linux distribution providers continue to gain momentum, most of the Linux chatter has very little to do with small business success — where Microsoft’s grip on customers remains firm. Here’s why.
How To Easily Migrate A PostgreSQL Server With Minimal Downtime
How To Easily Migrate A PostgreSQL Server With Minimal Downtime
PostgreSQL is a great database server, but when your dataset is
rather large, migrating a server by using pg_dump can be a rather long
process. In this tutorial we will discuss a way to migrate a entire
server with as little downtime as possible. To achieve this, we will be
using the PostgreSQL built in features for PITR (Point in time
recovery).
Coming Soon: X Server 1.8
According to the release plans, the release of X Server 1.8 should take place, and while in reality it will likely not be released today, its release is coming soon. When this release does arrive, it will add a new set of features to the X.Org stack and a number of other minor improvements and bug-fixes.
Virtualization With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless CentOS 5.4 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless CentOS 5.4 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
Ps3 Loses Linux Compatibility
It started with the slim, now its bigger brother is getting the same treatment – Sony have officially pulled the PS3′s compatibility with Linux. . Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com…
Watering down European standards
The concept of open IT standards, which is central to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), is to be watered down to such a degree that it will fade into insignificance. At least that’s the impression given by a current EIF 2 release leaked to the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Solaris 10 no longer free as in beer, now a 90-day trial
Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun’s UNIX operating system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to purchase a service contract in order to use the software. Sun’s policy was that anyone could use Solaris 10 for free without official support. Users could get a license entitling them to perpetual commercial use by filling out a simple survey and giving their e-mail address to Sun. Oracle is discontinuing this practice, and is repositioning the free version as a limited-duration trial.
How to Install QtCurve in KDE
In a previous MTE article, you learned how to create a unified desktop using the KDE 4 Oxygen themes for KDE, GTK, and Firefox. Oxygen is clean, simple, and visually pleasing, but some people want a little more flexibility. QtCurve is a theming system that gives you the configuring power to have varieties of themes, from downright plain to shiny eye candy.
Customized Effects with jQuery 1.4
The jQuery library provides several techniques for adding animation to a web page. These include simple, standard animations that are frequently used and the ability to craft sophisticated custom effects. In this article we’ll closely examine each of the effect methods, revealing all of the mechanisms jQuery has for providing customised visual feedback to the user.