Hadoop, there it is
Cloudera — the commercial Hadoop outfit — has teamed with Oracle-tools shop Quest Software to offer an Oracle connector for its stuffed-elephant distro.…
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Overcoming Common Unix-to-Linux Migration Pitfalls
You may encounter problems when moving from Unix to Linux. Learn about hardware and application compatibility challenges and how to overcome deployment errors and how to prevent them including client testing, shell script testing, and more.
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Dell Pondering Chrome OS Netbook
Chrome OS Netbooks are expected to launch by the end of the year and Dell has offered the strongest suggestion yet that it will be on board.
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Dell Backtracks on Linux Being Safer Than Windows
Microsoft pressed forward and Dell backtracks, but not as far as you might think.
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What’s Adobe’s 64-bit Flash Plan?
Adobe Systems pulled the plug on its only 64-bit version of Flash, an experimental version for Linux. But the project remains a ‘high priority.’
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Palm Still Designing New Phones, Despite HP’s Doubts
Bosses’ priority is webOS
Since the announcement that it would be acquired by Hewlett-Packard, Palm has scarcely figured in any discussions of the smartphone landscape.…
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Linux Odyssey 2010 – Logging Software
With the ARRL Field Day just around the corner, I decided, in the spirit of my own Linux Odyssey that I should find and use a new logging program. It is the search for this program that prompted these thoughts. more>>
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Wine 1.2 Gets a Fourth Release Candidate
The Wine development team have issued a fourth release candidate for version 1.2 of their Windows API implementation, fixing more than 70 bugs from the previous development preview
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Malicious Code on Lenovo Driver Download Page
Various Lenovo download pages carrying an embedded IFrame pointing to a Chinese server triggered a virus alert
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Making Sense of the New Business of IT
Time to get your hands dirty
Lab You may be heartily sick of hearing that ‘change is the only constant’, ‘everything’s getting faster’ and ‘business is more competitive than ever’. However, a direct consequence of what’s happening today is that the expectations placed on IT to help the business thrive in the midst of all this ‘change’ has never been greater.…
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