Entries tagged with 'MySQL'
EU Give Oracle The Thumbs-Up
Woohoo!!! Finally, the EU has given Oracle the thumbs-up for their purchase of Sun…
Larry Ellison’s Oracle won an all-clear from Europe’s top antitrust official to proceed with its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems after reaching a verbal agreement to protect a piece of software at the heart of a months-long dispute.
The final approval is [...]
Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009:
ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS.
ZFS for MacOS X - One [...]
Links of interest for 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009:
xkcd - Static - Hee hee hee
Guest Account Bug in Snow Leopard Causes Data Loss - Ooops. Just as well I disabled this account a long time ago.
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun - Some very valid points here. Lets hope [...]
Installing Habari isn’t really that complicated, however getting OS X up and running ready for the installation requires a bit of work.
Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) conveniently comes with Apache 2 and PHP 5, so most of the work in setting up a MAMP server has already been done for you. Sure [...]
Links of interest for 29 Jan 2009 - 12 Feb 2009:
Stop developing for Internet Explorer 6 - I couldn#039;t agree more. I stopped checking all of my site in IE 6 years ago. I#039;m not a web developer by profession so I don#039;t need to keep everyone happy. If you#039;re running [...]
Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008:
Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook.
It’s recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when [...]
Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008:
ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug.
Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don.
NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's [...]
The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time.
It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the “Start MySQL Server” / “Stop MySQL Server” button doesn’t do anything.
Well, today I finally got [...]
Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008:
MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light.
Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a [...]
Sun to Buy MySQL
I don’t think there’s much to say about this, other than I hope Sun doesn’t Cobalt-ize MySQL. Who knows, if Sun plays their cards right, we may finally have a really competitor for Oracle, and a huge cash cow for Sun. Maybe this will send Sun’s shares in the right direction.
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