January 30, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, geographically distributed content delivery networks can...
January 29, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
Several of the concerns about Oracle's acquisition of Sun have revolved around how Unix technologies led by Sun would continue under the new ownership. As it turns out, Solaris users might not have much to worry about, as Oracle executives on Wednesday...
January 27, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
Mozilla makes a good chunk of its revenues from a search deal with Google. So for all of you reading this blog on a Firefox web browser, Mozilla staffers that worked on this, were in part paid (indirectly) from that deal. If you happen to be running...
January 26, 2010 | In: Red Hat
Finally. A place to discuss, learn, promote everything open. With 5 channels: * Business * Education * Government * Law * Life We started this community to allow people from all across the world, regardless of job and skills,...
January 26, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
When it comes to open source databases, MySQL gets the lion’s share of attention. MySQL is an easy-to-use database, and a lot of open source Web applications are geared towards it. The other primary open source database is PostgreSQL which, while widely...
January 20, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
France has echoed calls by the German government for web users to find an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to protect security. Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned against using all versions of the web...
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