I've commented before on the forthcoming car tracking solution heading to the UK.
A very small update - and some more detail - is outlined here.
The worrying aspects here are the length of time that the data will be kept, and who will have access to it. Despite the assurances that all sorts of the restrictions and process will be in place to stop it being abused, I can't help but feel the whole system is starting to set a dangerous situat
Peter Gulutzan, who I had the pleasure of meeting (and eating) with a number of times at the developer’s conference in Sorrento, has written a very good overview of the new MySQL Events features plugged into MySQL 5.1.
Events differ from triggers because you can set an event to happen at a specified time or a specific interval. Although sometimes referred to as CRON for MySQL, events are slightly more flexible, and database driven making them much more practical than running a script or other tool through the cron, at or similar tool.
I've commented before on the forthcoming car tracking solution heading to the UK.
A very small update - and some more detail - is outlined here.
The worrying aspects here are the length of time that the data will be kept, and who will have access to it. Despite the assurances that all sorts of the restrictions and process will be in place to stop it being abused, I can't help but feel the whole system is starting to set a dangerous situat
IBM have created a new developerWorks zone dedicated to AIX and Unix.
This zone was one I had input on, both in terms of the focus and the initial range of articles and tutorials that are being posted up there.
The focus is almost 100% on Unix, rather than Linux, technologies, although it is almost inevitable that some Linux related content will creep in there too.
Quite a few of my recent articles and tutorials at developerWorks were originally designed for this new zone, including:
One of those is new overnight - Make UNIX and Linux work together - and the System Administrators Toolkit: Process administration tricks is part of a new series.
This is going to be a busy little zone for the next few months. If you have a suggestion for an article, or something you would particularly like to see on the topic of Unix, please feel free to contact me and let me know.
Sun have released a new version of their Sun Global Desktop product, a tool which lets you run applications on a server and use them locally. This is of course nothing particularly new, the original X Windows System allowed remote viewing of a local application, and through the years there have been a range of different solutions, such as VNC and Microsoft's Terminal Services.
Global Desktop has a few tricks up its sleeve, including the ability to run and support all of these technologies, and even a Java Applet driven web interface which you can try out online (along with X11 and Windows) through this link.
Sun have released a new version of their Sun Global Desktop product, a tool which lets you run applications on a server and use them locally. This is of course nothing particularly new, the original X Windows System allowed remote viewing of a local application, and through the years there have been a range of different solutions, such as VNC and Microsoft's Terminal Services.
Global Desktop has a few tricks up its sleeve, including the ability to run and support all of these technologies, and even a Java Applet driven web interface which you can try out online (along with X11 and Windows) through this link.
Douglas Schweitzer is going through a series of posts on wireless security, particularly in public environments, including his latest where he responds to my comment on wireless hotspots and security.
I have an alternative suggestion for Douglas though - perhaps he could employ this method as another alternative?
Through The Unofficial Apple Weblog and this post I was introduced to a new review/comment piece on Boot Camp.
On the whole the real article is wrong on a number of counts. I won't link to it yet, but I think one of the key paragraphs from the article is this one:
Macs operate at a lower CPU temperature than PCs. When a Mac starts to emulate a Windows platform completely, the computer must provide additional voltage to provide the computing power. The heat generated from over-clocking the hardware results in faster hardware degradation. If you get enough excess heat, you can start cooking your computer and maybe even dinner while you're at it.To pick out the specific points that are plain and simply wrong from this paragraph:
Douglas Schweitzer is going through a series of posts on wireless security, particularly in public environments, including his latest where he responds to my comment on wireless hotspots and security.
I have an alternative suggestion for Douglas though - perhaps he could employ this method as another alternative?
Through The Unofficial Apple Weblog and this post I was introduced to a new review/comment piece on Boot Camp.
On the whole the real article is wrong on a number of counts. I won't link to it yet, but I think one of the key paragraphs from the article is this one:
Macs operate at a lower CPU temperature than PCs. When a Mac starts to emulate a Windows platform completely, the computer must provide additional voltage to provide the computing power. The heat generated from over-clocking the hardware results in faster hardware degradation. If you get enough excess heat, you can start cooking your computer and maybe even dinner while you're at it.To pick out the specific points that are plain and simply wrong from this paragraph: