Lately, I've been feeling
a little nostalgic about
what I call the 'golden
age' of consumer software
innovation in the late
'80s and early '90s. Back
then I was cutting my
teeth at a medium-sized
Mac software publisher
called Silico...
My aunt and I were having
an e-mail discussion
about which is the
easiest to use: a real
photo album with pictures
or a computer photo
album, as on a CD-ROM. I
suggested that we put all
the family photos into an
album rather than ha...
C/C++ language variadic
functions are functions
that accept a variable
number of arguments.
Variadic functions are
implemented using either
the ANSI C stdarg
approach or,
historically, the UNIX
System V vararg approach.
Both appro...
Matt Asay, the founder of
the Open Source Business
Conference, discusses his
views on the conference
and open source
businesses and products.
Matt works at Novell as
director, Open Source
Strategy. Prior to
Novell, he worked with
...
For this installment of
my
recruiting/certification
column, I have decided to
turn my attention to the
MySQL certification. It's
another one of the open
source-based
certification programs
that seems to be gaining
a lot of tractio...
Backup is the most
important method for
protecting
mission-critical data.
Traditionally, a backup
system meant a tape drive
attached to a server or
mainframe. Software on
the server regularly
dumped an image of the
entire set of d...
Asterisk has gotten a lot
of press coverage lately.
What's all the commotion
about? Asterisk is a
software-based solution
that provides more
features than many
expensive commercial PBX
systems. Best of all,
it's free and works with ...
For C++ programmers all
over the world, Boost and
the Boost libraries have
become indispensable.
Weighing in at 60 C++
libraries, Boost is a
large collection of
peer-reviewed code
covering a wide range of
domains. But why should
y...
Lost passwords, easily
guessed passwords,
accounts with no
passwords - they are all
huge security risks;
however, there often
isn't a better, more
economical way for
companies on a limited
budget. Biometric
authentication can be
...
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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