Posts Tagged ‘database’

A Bushel of Free FOSS Tutorials

You can’t knock a good FOSS tutorial. While documentation, including tutorials, is often a weakness with open source applications–even very established ones–the good news is that there are some outstanding free tutorials on the web

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A Bushel of Free FOSS Tutorials

Research and Organize Your Family Tree With Gramps

Thanks to web sites like Facebook and Classmates, getting in touch with your past is all the rage right now. If you want to go way back, though, and research your genealogy, you’ll need a way to keep everything organized. Gramps is a free, open open source application that’s easy enough for hobbyists to use, yet full-featured enough for professional genealogists.

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Research and Organize Your Family Tree With Gramps

MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next

MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very  vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign .  With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow. OStatic: Now that the acquisition is going through, what do you think the future of MySQL is going to be?

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Save the Drama for Primetime: Restart MythTV the Easy Way

First, an admission: after using MythTV for nearly two years , I succumbed to the lure of a blazingly fast fiber optic internet and television bundle, and I’ve been using the provider supplied DVR. I have some regrets about this. Though the multiple high definition tuners are great, the actual software on my proprietary DVR is sometimes less than intuitive

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Save the Drama for Primetime: Restart MythTV the Easy Way