"My previous post discussed my thoughts on how to read programming books, here comes my reading list of programming/computer science books..."
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Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in [Free], Collaborative Video Experiment
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"...The Wikimedia Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and Kaltura, Inc., a pioneer in Collaborative Media, announced today that the companies have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. Under this project, users will be invited to test new functionality that could one day enable Wikipedia articles to include collaboratively created video, audio, animations, and slideshows as well as text and images..."
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Can Linux finally unite Korea?
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With just weeks to go before South Korea's presidential election at the end of last year, Seoul's newspapers were full of stories about historic North-South cooperation.
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Extinguishing LAMP: Sun Buys MySQL
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Wow, I wasn't expecting this one: Sun is buying MySQL: "the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know what that means - we're acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world's most popular open source database."
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Moving to Linux : Why the increased demand?
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Linux is gaining. It’s almost impossible to miss, even for non-techies. Not only that, those non-techies are demanding it. Linux interest is spreading, perhaps driven by the dissatisfaction with the latest OS from Redmond. For example, I read recently:
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Microsoft Rises to Sixth on Patent List for 2007
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Microsoft was awarded more than 1,600 patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2007, placing it sixth on the list of biggest patent performers, according to IFI Patent Intelligence, which tracks patent awards. IBM, which tried but failed to patent outsourcing last year, won the patent count for the 16th straight year, with more than 3,100 patents.
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Microsoft to IBM: Tolerate PSI Mainframes or Quit Europe
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If you think Microsoft has an aversion to Article 82 of the European Treaty, the anti-monopoly law that forced it to open some Windows server APIs and also to live with others' media players on desktops, think again.
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Enterprise Unix Roundup: EU vs. Microsoft vs. IBM
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I just read an interesting story about how Microsoft is (by proxy) cleverly using the same law that was just smacked over its head for Windows market dominance against IBM's mainframe base in Europe.
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What to Make of Sun Buying MySQL
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Analysis: Most analysts agree it all depends on what Sun does with MySQL, the leading open-source database management system.
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What does Sun's MySQL Acquisition Mean to Businesses?
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From its place in the LAMP stack to being the platform of choice for the vast majority of Web 2.0 companies, says CIO.com, the acquisition of MySQL means it's time for CIOs not using MySQL or Sun to review their vendor choices for a consolidated offering.
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Wikipedia Celebrates its Seventh Birthday
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"...Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit, celebrates its seventh birthday today. Founded on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has become one of the world's ten most visited websites, and the fastest growing, most current, and largest encyclopedia ever created. Currently, the website has nine million articles in over two hundred and fifty languages. It is collaboratively written by volunteers from around the world..."
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Using ruby-debug from GNU Emacs
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"...Use the command M-x rdebug in GNU Emacs to start debugging. Give the executable file you want to debug as an argument. Make sure to use the version that comes with this package as this is newer than that supplied with GNU Emacs..."
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The Linux Audio Server Project - Revisited
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the orignal "Linux Audio Server Project" article was first written back in 2004, talking only about the LIRC setup with my headless server to use it as any other hifi element: stop, play, pause, etc. I soon needed more functionality, which was easy to implement, but which I never actually updated this article for.
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Helping Dolphins Fly
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We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB.
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Linux a greener alternative to a forced Vista move?
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If you read my blog yesterday, you noticed my entry about Microsoft's move to retire XP and effectively force Windows shops into a wasteful migration to Vista.
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