Turns out I'm not the only one who struggled with the copy/paste functionality in Linux. Someone posted an Ask Slashdot question about that same topic, and the answers are telling. There's not a fix, per se, but a ton of viewpoints on how people need to try to adapt to the operating ...
My Linux on the Desktop article for HAL-PC hit this month, and already it's generated more feedback than any of my prior articles. Everybody emails me the same basic questions, so here goes: What video card did you use? You should have used ___. Read back through my Linux blog category to read ...
Wow, about time. The site's finally moved over to Linux. Ended up using PHP just to get it to go live quicker & smoother - I can always play around with Java on other sites. Besides, I don't edit the code on this one much ...
OK, I give up. This morning I figured I'd take another shot at setting up a VPN client, this time using SSH like a guy at my company uses. I got started, got about an hour into it, and it doesn't work on Xandros because the kernel doesn't have the PPP module built in. ...
I've been running Linux on the desktop for a little over a month. I'm using it as my mail server and DNS server, and now it's time to start migrating my web sites over from ASP to JSP. Most of the translation should be pretty straightforward - there's hardly any dynamic code in ...
A few months back, Microsoft gave MVPs a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to pass on to community members, no strings attached. I quietly gave mine to a few deserving folks who I thought could be future MVPs, but Arnie Rowland (Blog – @ArnieRowland) had a better idea. Arnie’s Project Phoenix encourages developers to propose a [...]
Read More »A few months ago, I had The Idea. I wanted to conduct SQL Server training on a cruise ship. I emailed a few buddies and offered to start a company called SQLCruise with them, and out of three friends, only one could say yes. I don’t have anything against the two who said no. I [...]
Read More »Most SQL Server DBAs don’t even like MySQL, let alone NoSQL. They cringe when they hear people say things like, “I don’t need transactions” or “The data will eventually be consistent” or “Indexes will be supported in the next version.” SQL Server and Oracle people are constantly trying to out-feature each other, and the abject [...]
Read More »In August 2008, Lady Gaga released her premier album The Fame. This 13-track work produced several hit singles including Just Dance, Poker Face, and Paparazzi – but it also produced plenty of controversy. Her exaggerated use of fashion, musical cliches, and sex gave her plenty of media attention – both good and bad. If you’ve [...]
Read More »Pop quiz: should you be worried if your SQL Server’s page life expectancy is averaging 214? There’s only one correct answer: it depends.
Performance tuning is all about finding the RIGHT bottleneck, focusing on it, and fixing it to the application owner’s satisfaction. Learn what happens if you don’t do it right.
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