Oracle recently released the latest MySQL 5.5.x versions. Despite of having tones of fixes and supposedly running much faster and (finally) making InnoDB the
For some of my Ubuntu Servers (10.04) the Cron jobs did not work or only sporadically executed. I've asked around, but none of my friends could explain why t
I just upgraded one my Ubuntu server from 10.04 to 10.10 (works flawlessly) and realized that I was prompted with the grub menu during a reboot. Since this i
Today I had a “banging my head to the wall” time where I was confronted with this pesky error: “An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the elem
Having just moved quite a large installation to a MySQL database I have encountered the following error when connecting to the MySQL server: ERROR 2006 (HY00
Steve Johnson talks on “Where ideas come from” gives a good overview how people and especially where they get their ideas from. I personally have been a long
Just some cartoon you have to see
This talk by Nicholas Christakis given at the TED talk in Cannes is a must see for everyone who wants to know how social networks influence our behavior. Esp
Ok, so I did it. I went from my truly lovely iPhone (3G) to a Android phone. My choice is the Samsung Galaxy i9000 (some call it GT-9000). So, how is the exp
Right, so here is the scope. I've been a MacOS X user for many years, not that I have been a fanatic one but I simply used what works best for me. In any cas
What's the difference between Apple and the iPhone? This is hilarious
So far, installing SUN Java versions have always been a bit of a “pain” under Linux. Well, as I said, when you need SUN's Java version that is. Most of the t