November 2006

  • open source beer

    Open source beer is beer whose recipe is published according to principles adapted from open source software. According to the licensing agreement, the recipe can be used and adapted by anyone... (...30 Nov 2006

  • Zimbra stalks Microsoft Office with open source, Web services

    Zimbra CEO Satish Dhamaraj sees cracks in the Microsoft Office armor that his Ajax-based collaboration suite can exploit.29 Nov 2006

  • hardware clustering

    Hardware clustering (sometimes called operating system clustering) is a hardware-based method of turning multiple servers into a cluster (a group of servers that acts like a single system).28 Nov 2006

  • MySQL

    MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language).28 Nov 2006

  • Samba

    Samba is a popular freeware program that allows end users to access and use files, printers, and other commonly shared resources on a company's intranet or on the Internet.28 Nov 2006

  • Information Kit: Linux, Unix, and All the Little ixes

    Linux, Unix, and all the little ixes --The Unix versus Linux confusion28 Nov 2006

  • freeware

    Freeware (not to be confused with free software) is programming that is offered at no cost and is a common class of small applications available for downloading and use in most operating systems.28 Nov 2006

  • Open Software Foundation (OSF)

    The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was a pioneer industry-sponsored organization whose purpose was to foster, identify, and, in some cases, develop software technologies that could serve as industr...28 Nov 2006

  • open source software (OSS)

    Open source software (OSS) refers to software that is developed, tested, or improved through public collaboration and distributed with the idea that code must be shared with others28 Nov 2006

  • PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

    PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers... (Continued)28 Nov 2006

  • SuSE

    SuSE (pronounced soo'-sah) is a German Linux distribution provider and business unit of Novell, Inc.28 Nov 2006

  • Debian

    Debian is a popular and freely-available computer operating system that uses the Linux kernel and other program components obtained from the GNU project.28 Nov 2006

  • Chapter 5 of "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5"

    Chapter 5 of "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5" describes installation and configuration of MySQL Administrator and using SQL commands in Query Browser.28 Nov 2006

  • Chapter 3 of "Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming"

    Chapter 3, Socket programming, deals with transferring files, error handling and error checking between User Datagram Protocol servers and clients.28 Nov 2006

  • Chapter 3 of "Deploying OpenLDAP"

    Chapter 3 of "Deploying OpenLDAP" discusses the basics of environment setup and tools required to successfully run an OpenLDAP server28 Nov 2006

  • OpenOffice workarounds for Calc, Writer

    In this tip, an expert demonstrates how to convert Writer documents to Word, suggests some open source alternatives to Microsoft products and explains a Calc workaround for editing spreadsheet head...28 Nov 2006

  • Electronic signatures in OpenOffice

    How to create electronic signatures in OpenOffice 2.0.28 Nov 2006

  • Chapter 8, The Dating Game

    Chapter 8 -- The dating game -- of "Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" provides over a dozen functions for manipulating and formatting dates.28 Nov 2006

  • Postgres slides in between Oracle, MySQL

    As VoIP provider Vonage's customer base grew, so too did its databases. They didn't warrant more Oracle instances, but ran just fine on PostgresSQL-based EnterpriseDB.28 Nov 2006

  • Chapter 4, Entering and editing the command line

    Chapter 4 of "From Bash to Z shell" introduces the basic concepts of line-editing using the vi and Emacs bindings.28 Nov 2006