Monthly Archives: July 2010

O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading →

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Palm Ownership History Chart

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Administrator

Very nice chart of Palm’s ownership history by alltommac.se.

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SMTP Maximum Body Line Lengths

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Administrator

Handy maximum email message body values to know when debugging email line-folding problems. Generally if ! or !+ characters are inserted into long email lines, the solution is use shorter lines (insert newlines) or use quoted-printable encoding. MTA Maximum Octets … Continue reading →

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MySQL Storage Capacity Planning

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Administrator

Planning how much storage is needed for MySQL databases is an issue that always comes up when buying new servers. There’s 2 different general cases, OLTP and logging or Data Warehouse databases. OLTP Database Storage Capacity Planning Based on experience, … Continue reading →

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SVLUG Meeting: Not Your Father’s Assembly Language with Randall Hyde

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Administrator

At Silicon Valley Linux Users Group tonite, Randall Hyde talked a bout a more modern implementation of assembly language, HLA – the High Level Assembler. He talked about his career as a programmer, college lecturer at UC Riverside, computer book … Continue reading →

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