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If you want to check to see if you may have already contracted the virus and want to know what to do in case you have, go here:
http://doihaveswineflu.org/

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MySQL conference notes on cloud computing shoot out text summary atranscript
Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, sun
Monty Taylor, MySQL Drissel Geek, Sun
Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist
Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
Thorsten von Ficon, CTO, Rightscale
Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook
Mike Culver, Evangerlist, Amazon Web Services
Some interesting subjects touched upon were:
elasticity – allowing even a small company to shoot for the [...]

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Adobe is starting to look more and more like Microsft these days. Both companies offer popular products used at home and in the enterprise, both offer multi-platform versions. Adobe does show much more love for Linux then Microsoft will likely ever will. While this isnt the first time PDF based exploits have been discovered, the [...]

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In an accouncement made yesterday LSI Corporation stated that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) to acquire the assets and associated intellectual property of the 3ware® RAID adapter business. It has been about 5 years since AMCC aquired 3Ware Inc for roughly 150 millions dollars in cash and [...]

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There is a module released for monitoring Drupal sites with Nagios.  Monitoring includes the check if your site is up and running, check for new updates on Drupal core, security, and modules, database updates, write permission on “files” directory,  check if cron is running on the specified period, and other sections of your Drupal site.  [...]

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Aside from missing coconut trees and hula girls distinguishing our data center from Hawaii was pretty tough this afternoon. It was HOT, so hot in fact that I was sweating while sitting in just a cotton tee-shirt. I kept drifting away into a daydream where that failed 20 ton Liebert A/C unit was running. Soon [...]

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MySQL has a number of different caches. Most of those are dependent on the storage engine that is used. The key buffer for example caches the indexes for MyISAM tables while the caching of data is left to the OS. InnoDB has the buffer pool for both data and indexes and so on. The query [...]

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When I saw this text in this WSJ article about the Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz email, it really sounded like I was re-living the year 2000 doc com bubble and I was reading www.fuckedcompany.com.
We use MySQL extnsivly and for very high availability applications so naturally there was a lot of discussion about the future of MySQL.  [...]

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While it’s no longer news that Oracle shelled out $5.6 billion for Sun Microsystems many open source lovers have to be at least wondering what will happen to the most widely used free database server. With nearly 44% of software developers choosing Mysql as database of choice many are betting on the fact that MySql [...]

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Big news in the tech world – Sun Microsystems will be sold to Oracle.  In case this still doesnt ring any alarm bells, Sun Microsystems owns MySQL.  Oracle is the worlds leading database.  This will definetly make things exciting – hopefully keeping MySQL open and free.

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