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In a recent interview on the blog MyNoSQL, Twitter engineer Ryan King said a migration from MySQL to Apache’s Cassandra database (db) is in the works. The move comes at a time when Twitter’s growth has cause significant heart-ache for the IT and other staff. In the last 12 months, Twitter was down for 84 [...]
SQL Buddy is a MySQL web based administration tool. This server-side MySQL database management tool oftentimes replaces phpMyAdmin. Although SQL Buddy’s features aren’t as in-depth as phpMyAdmin, it is definitely a power tool for helping to manage your databases. Quite literally, unpack SQL Buddy and drop the folder into a PHP enabled web directory. Login [...]
Clicker – think of this site like your online TV guide
Hulu – rockn’ good shows available 30 days after air date
CBS – network station
NBC –network station
ABC – network station
FOX – network station
Netflix – requires a subscription, but if you have a PS3 or other compatible hardware, you can watch unlimited TV and movies
iTunes – watch [...]
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The Bloom Box, an invention from start-up Bloom Energy, saturated the media today. Bloom Energy has utilized over $400 million in venture funding to create a product that has the Department of Energy (DOE) and other energy stakeholders drooling. For the last 18 months, companies likes Google, eBay, and Wal-Mart have been the beta testers [...]
The increasing use of ads, links, and other distractions on a web page can sometimes make it difficult to find the main content of a website. Readability has a simple and effective solution to this problem.
Readability offers a configurable bookmarklet to place in your web browser toolbar that will enable you to read site content [...]
Gloobus is a file preview extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment. Sorry KDE fans, this is not for you. As you may have noticed, not all filetypes in Gnome have a thumbnail preview. This is where Gloobus comes in handy. It currently supports preview mode for around 40 different file types.
Images: jpeg / png / [...]
I was trying to download a copy of Open Office 3.2 for installation and upgrade to one of my less frequently used Ubuntu 9.10 boxes tonight. The strange this about the attempt is the 400 error that I received from one of the Open Office mirrors.Apparently, OpenOffice 3.2 is more popular than I thought…
Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers, is offering all high speed internet users 2GB online storage and backup space. The service is operated by Mozy, a well-trusted third party backup service. The service currently supports Windows variants listed below, but not Mac or Linux. I would not suspect that a Linux client [...]
I was looking around for an external hard drive (hdd) enclosure and found the Sabrent on TigerDirect. After reading the reviews, it seemed like people either loved them or hated them. The top two complaints that I read about were the fan quality and the lack of hard drive installation ease. Out of 144 reviews [...]