At MySQL User Conference Today04/19/2005 11:39 AM As previously noted, I'll be at the MySQL User Conference in Santa
Clara today. I'm looking forward to several of the talks on the
schedule: LiveJournal's Backend: A History of Scaling Flagship
Features in MySQL 5.0 Replication and Cluster Overview Who knows...
maybe I'll see you there....
MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting today
MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting today06/21/2004 04:11 AM The iPod Garage User Group will hold its monthly online meeting today,
complete with free copies of the book "How to do everything with your
iPod and iPod mini," and special guest Audio-Outfitters, suppliers of
a variety of iPod peripherals...
ssh user@linux.ars
ssh user@linux.ars01/28/2004 01:13 AM Linux.Ars serves up a primer on SESCH port forwarding, plus Inkscape,
a SVG app.
Linux Getting More User Friendly
Linux Getting More User Friendly02/03/2003 10:14 AM The old line on Linux that it was hard to install and harder to
maintain is finally starting to give way: "...a fresh Redhat 8.0
install its amazing how far its come. The Font's, icon crispness and
overall look is light years from where it was."
IOSN has produced an introductory end
user guide to using the Linux desktop. It is now available for
review and feedback. This user guide is meant as an introductory guide
for a user to use a modern personal computer (PC) running the Linux
operating system. The main aim is to provide a self-learning guide on
how to use a modern Linux desktop system. It assumes that the user has
no prior knowledge of Linux or PC usage. The guide currently formatted
for use as printed material, with the acompanying slides to be used by
trainers. The training materials are licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution License.
Linux Home User Road Map
Linux Home User Road Map01/03/2003 12:47 AM A wonderful article about how Linux needs to be more like .Frankly Linux will wither
and die as
SCO Takes Aim at Linux User Target
SCO Takes Aim at Linux User Target02/18/2004 08:17 PM The SCO Group is standing firm by its commitment to sue an enterprise
Linux user, even as it has missed its own self-imposed three-month
timeframe for doing so. The question remains: What company will be the
target?
User Mode Linux expert wanted04/23/2004 02:53 PM While we try fitting everything into Combust, we've been considering
using UML on perl.org to make it easier to host sites or projects
where Other People needs to be able to login with ssh or do other
silly things like that. I spent most of a weekend tampering with it a
while ago and got a Debian system to boot. Yay. Then I setup
networking and the kernel on the host box decided to panic. Oops. So,
we are looking...
Linux wins heart of global SAP user08/18/2004 12:28 PM Switzerland's Endress+Hauser (International) Holding AG, a global
supplier of process control systems, has migrated all its business
applications from SAP AG to a mainframe running the open-source Linux
operating system.
Linux Programming: User-Level Memory Management05/17/2004 04:19 PM An excerpt from Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals
explaining memory management and the Linux/Unix address space.
The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain
behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people
off, etc.
This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids
are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase
off your best users, too.
Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating
arises out of real contexts.
Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster
is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they
never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic,
because ex-lovers are strong ties!).
10.3: Kill another user logged in under Fast User Switching
10.3: Kill another user logged in under Fast User Switching12/02/2003 12:38 AM Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where
several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user
forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not
figured out how to log t...
Power User: Google is a user’s best friend
Power User: Google is a user’s best friend08/05/2002 10:45 PM Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful
Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site
I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google
toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little
search window in every browser session.
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the User Interface
