When you consider the way
LAMP (Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP, Perl, or
Python) has evolved, you
could draw comparisons to
a very low tech but
effective method of
collaboration: the
farmers' cooperative.
Individual farmers on
their ow...
Founded in December 2002,
software compliance
management pioneer Black
Duck Software now has a
staff of 30 and offers a
platform to the market in
the form of an
information service which
it sells as a
subscription and already
has ...
***After mail-in rebate.
Must purchase product
between 11:57 p.m. on
1/1/05 and 2:17 a.m. on
1/2/05, at the CompUSA in
East Lansing, MI, from a
salesman named Bob who
has between three and
five children. Rebate
must be postmarked by...
Here's an understatement:
security has been pretty
front and center lately.
When was the last time
the 'S' word hasn't been
somewhere on the cover of
at least one of the
weekly IT magazines?
Trade publications, news
magazines, and blogs are
filled with secrets and
solutions for easily and
cost-effectively building
Web sites, intranets, and
the like. Recipes like
these are great but, in
reality, how do we make
it happen?
Last month we finally
wrapped up the long
journey toward creating a
useful shell script with
the hi-low game. Alright,
'useful' might be a bit
of a stretch, but if
you've read through all
the columns leading up to
this point, you sh...
In Part 1 ('Why Are You
Waiting?', Vol. 2, issue
9), I discussed the
business and technical
considerations in
migrating Microsoft IIS
Web servers to Apache on
Linux. Now, I'll address
those who've decided that
migrating to Apache on...
The purpose of this
article is to show how
basic security principles
can help you develop
programs that are harder
for the bad guys to
break. We'll examine a
simple function that
executes a command as
though it were typed at
the k...
When blade servers burst
on the computing scene
several years ago, they
were hailed as a
replacement for
traditional rack-mount
solutions and a catalyst
for the continuing shift
away from proprietary
Unix servers and
mainframes an...
Open source databases
running on Linux like
MySQL, Ingres r3,
PostgreSQL, and Firebird
have aroused a lot of
interest. Database
developers and corporate
users are heralding the
anticipated the release
of MySQL 5.0, which
includes ...
Talk to young programmers
and developers today and
you'd be fooled into
thinking that free/open
source software (FOSS)
was a relatively new
invention. Those crusty
old folk among us (myself
included, born in that
prehistoric era of ...
Web site content
management can be
difficult, and commercial
products can be
expensive. Luckily, a few
open source projects are
highly recommended for
the job. In fact, it's
been claimed that
Bricolage was one of the
best content ...
The Network File System
(NFS) is an important
mechanism for sharing
files among end users on
a broad range of
platforms. End users have
relied on NFS to support
mission-critical
applications for several
decades. However, in
recent...
EnterpriseDB, based in
Edison, New Jersey, has
announced what it calls
an 'enterprise class'
open-source database
strategy that leverages
PostgreSQL with Oracle
compatibility. In an
exclusive SYS-CON.TV
interview, Andy Astor,
co-f...
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
With the arrival of
Yahoo! and its Yahoo! Go
Mobile 2.0 product,
another A-list brand has
entered the market.
Yahoo!'s presence, like
Apple's, expands the
number of
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
With the arrival of
Yahoo! and its Yahoo! Go
Mobile 2.0 product,
another A-list brand has
entered the market.
Yahoo!'s presence, like
Apple's, expands the
number of