At the developers conference this year, held in Sorrento, Italy, I was fortunate enough to meet and have dinner with some Italian MySQL users—some of whom had travelled from Rome to be with us that evening at a lovely traditional Italian restaurant just off one of the main squares.
Console power consumption
We waste an amazing amount of power, and a big part of that is the machines we leave on standby. I blame part of that on manufacturers and technology - partly for providing a sleep function in TVs and computers, and partly because we have DC power adaptors for charging your phone or PDA that constantly use energy, even when not charging these components.
However, I equally think that businesses and individuals are to blame. Many companies have a policy of leaving the computers on overnight, when they could be turned off.
Education, as always, is key, and a good way to make people realize the effect of leaving their equipment on is to show how much you could save in terms of money. This piece at Gizmodo shows you how much energy and money is used by your games console.
Console power consumption
We waste an amazing amount of power, and a big part of that is the machines we leave on standby. I blame part of that on manufacturers and technology - partly for providing a sleep function in TVs and computers, and partly because we have DC power adaptors for charging your phone or PDA that constantly use energy, even when not charging these components.
However, I equally think that businesses and individuals are to blame. Many companies have a policy of leaving the computers on overnight, when they could be turned off.
Education, as always, is key, and a good way to make people realize the effect of leaving their equipment on is to show how much you could save in terms of money. This piece at Gizmodo shows you how much energy and money is used by your games console.
Console power consumption
We waste an amazing amount of power, and a big part of that is the machines we leave on standby. I blame part of that on manufacturers and technology - partly for providing a sleep function in TVs and computers, and partly because we have DC power adaptors for charging your phone or PDA that constantly use energy, even when not charging these components.
However, I equally think that businesses and individuals are to blame. Many companies have a policy of leaving the computers on overnight, when they could be turned off.
Education, as always, is key, and a good way to make people realize the effect of leaving their equipment on is to show how much you could save in terms of money. This piece at Gizmodo shows you how much energy and money is used by your games console.
What is a database? (humour)
I'm a big fan of the Working Daze comic, but I certainly hope that this comic is indicative of the majority of our users
Apple sacrilege
For some reason, this Rudy Park cartoon really resonates with me.
Free Software Magazine blog added to Planet MySQL
I’ve had my blog at Free Software Magazine added the Planet MySQL syndication site.
Multiple search
I think it was a post by Robert Scoble that put me onto this, but gada.be.
The site goes away and searches a number of other search engines to give you some top responses. Quite interesting…try running these and check the results:
It’s unfortunate that there’s the disparity between the Martin C Brown and Martin MC Brown; that change was one I made last year when I started blogging more regularly because most people know me as simply MC. At least though there’s a link.
Cheating on the T2000, with its smaller sibling
It was just a few short weeks ago that I said goodbye to the Sun T2000 I'd had on the Try and Buy program from Sun.
Unfortunately it didn't quite fit my needs, but my contact at Sun's PR firm offered me the chance to take a closer look at the T1000. I'll talk about the T1000 specifics in a post later this week, but the key focus for this beast is on a high-density processing platform, rather than the server platform approach of the T2000.
This time round I'm going to be looking at some slightly different performance and other metrics, along with those I conducted for Cheffy and elsewhere.
Cheating on the T2000, with its smaller sibling
It was just a few short weeks ago that I said goodbye to the Sun T2000 I'd had on the Try and Buy program from Sun.
Unfortunately it didn't quite fit my needs, but my contact at Sun's PR firm offered me the chance to take a closer look at the T1000. I'll talk about the T1000 specifics in a post later this week, but the key focus for this beast is on a high-density processing platform, rather than the server platform approach of the T2000.
This time round I'm going to be looking at some slightly different performance and other metrics, along with those I conducted for Cheffy and elsewhere.