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FTC To Monitor Blogs For Paid Claims & Reviews
PL/SQL Guy writes “Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, 0 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. Bloggers vary in how they disclose such freebies, if they do so at all. But now the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention. New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers — as well as the companies that compensate them — for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest. Bloggers complain that with FTC oversight, they’d be too worried about innocent posts getting them in trouble, because the common practice of posting a graphical ad or a link to an online retailer — and possibly getting commissions for any sales from it — would be enough to trigger oversight.”
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Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked
worb writes “Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to ‘redefine the web.’ But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times quicker, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times quicker. He concludes that Opera Unite’s server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use.”
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EnterpriseDB Smooths Way for Oracle App Migration
EnterpriseDB, which has commercialized the PostgreSQL open source database, announced on Tuesday the fifth version of its Postgres Plus Advanced Server. This latest version of EnterpriseDB’s relational database management system is designed to let users easily migrate more Oracle applications in order to cut costs. It also provides massive scalability using commodity hardware through its Infinite Cache feature. While several open source databases are available, demand for PostgreSQL is strong because enterprises are emphasizing analytics in database management systems.
One Approach To Open Source Code Contribution and Testing
An anonymous reader writes “Brian Aker, one of the original core developers of MySQL, has written up a lengthy blog on how the Drizzle fork is handling both its code contributions and its testing. He has listed the tools they use and how they work with their processes. He also makes an interesting statement about the signing of corporate code-contribution agreements and how there are some, including Rasmus (creator of PHP), who refuse to sign them.”
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Google’s Android To Challenge Windows?
PL/SQL Guy writes “Search giant Google is set to offer its free Android mobile-phone operating system for computers, opening a new front in its rivalry with M|cr0s0ft by challenging the dominance of the company’s Windows software. Acer Inc., the world’s second-largest laptop maker, will release a low-cost notebook powered by Android next quarter, said Jim Wong, head of information-technology products at the Taipei-based company. Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc, says that adoption of Android-based netbooks will likely eat into Windows’ share of PC operating systems.” Meanwhile, notes reader Barence, Asus is continuing to distance itself from Android, saying it “isn’t a priority.”
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Google’s Android To Challenge Windows?
PL/SQL Guy writes “Search giant Google is set to offer its free Android mobile-phone operating system for computers, opening a new front in its rivalry with M|cr0s0ft by challenging the dominance of the company’s Windows software. Acer Inc., the world’s second-largest laptop maker, will release a low-cost notebook powered by Android next quarter, said Jim Wong, head of information-technology products at the Taipei-based company. Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc, says that adoption of Android-based netbooks will likely eat into Windows’ share of PC operating systems.” Meanwhile, notes reader Barence, Asus is continuing to distance itself from Android, saying it “isn’t a priority.”
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Google’s Android To Challenge Windows?
PL/SQL Guy writes “Search giant Google is set to offer its free Android mobile-phone operating system for computers, opening a new front in its rivalry with M|cr0s0ft by challenging the dominance of the company’s Windows software. Acer Inc., the world’s second-largest laptop maker, will release a low-cost notebook powered by Android next quarter, said Jim Wong, head of information-technology products at the Taipei-based company. Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc, says that adoption of Android-based netbooks will likely eat into Windows’ share of PC operating systems.” Meanwhile, notes reader Barence, Asus is continuing to distance itself from Android, saying it “isn’t a priority.”
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When VMWare Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails
Siker writes in to tell abou the experience of email transfer service YippieMove, which ditched VMware and switched to FreeBSD jails. “We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite’s internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected a performance difference between running our software in a VM compared to running on the metal, but that it could be as much as 10X was a wake-up call.”
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Zmanda backs up MySQL to your cloud of choice
Zmanda is now offering to back-up MySQL databases to your choice of cloud locations. It’s a good move and a great cloud use-case.
SQL in a Nutshell
stoolpigeon writes “The cover of SQL in a Nutshell sports a chameleon, the little lizard well known for its ability to blend in just about anywhere. This is a great choice for the Structured Query Language. SQL has been around since the seventies, helping developers interact with the ubiquitous relational database management system. Thirty some years later, SQL grinds away in the background of just about any interactive web site and nameless other technologies. New alternatives are popping up constantly but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that SQL is going to be around for a long time. Anyone interacting with an RDBMS is in all likelihood going to need to use SQL at some point. For those that do, who also want a handy desktop reference available, SQL in a Nutshell has been there for the last 9 years. The SQL language itself has not stood still over those years, and neither have the products that use SQL, and so now the book is available in a third edition.” Read on for the rest of JR’s review.
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