…and SCO’s solution to it. For those of you who are not familiar with BBspot I strongly suggest you check it out. If only that article were so far fetched.
Month: August 2003
A bold new File system
Application developers on Linux have been looking with great interest at the upcoming Reiser4 file system developed by Hans Reiser. Although there is a great number of currently supported file systems on Linux (some better than others, some better at other things than some…) Reiser goes along way in fixing one of the most persistent bugs in file system theory; that of handling small file efficiently.
A great article discussing some of the possibilities that become possible with the Reiser4 can be found here. The longer I work with computers the more I am convinced of the accuracy of *nix style OS development. Microsoft seems to agree also; with recent moves to extend the command line, create a command line only server OS, change the way the system looks at data (that of all file/folders/devices/drivers being objects), etc.. etc.. etc.. Heck, given enough time and money Microsoft will invent…. Unix!
My name is Bob an I love Jeeps
I love JEEPS! Not those mambee-pambee YJ/TJ valley girl (“I use my 4wd to go over the really big speed bumps.”) Jeeps… no, no, no… I love CJ/MJ Jeeps. I am currently in the market for a pre 1986 CJ7 in fairly good condition. Great place I found is Sport Utility Performance Center . Lots of good Jeeps! Real Jeeps.
KDE Stats
For those who follow KDE development there is a GREAT page for analysis of the current KDE project here. Includes information concerning code, modules, commiters and does both statistic and graphic evaluation.
ODBC OO.org and MySQL
Working to get OO.org Database configuration working with MySQL using ODBC gave me a little bit of a headache. I have decided to pass along the info I found and used.
First is a two part article at LinuxWorld ( Part 1 & Part 2 ) which helped a whole bunch in getting ODBC and MySQL setup. A HUGE help was the how-to by Mr. McCreesh referred to in both part1 and part 2; of which I have linked locally (pdf 1.5m) for everyones convenience. Finally I last little bit-o-trouble was given to me by MyODBC and I found the solution on a groups.google.com post.
All of this was to do OpenOffice.org work with databases on forms in a post I made earlier.