Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced yesterday that they have acquired the Open-Source database platform MySQL. This is a huge purchase and one of the largest acquisitions of an Open Source entity that we’ve ever seen. The goal, says Schwartz, is to put a Fortune 500 vendor behind the innovative technology powering many next generation web-based [...]
Entries from January 18th, 2008
Sun Acquires MySQL
January 18th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Development · Internet · Open Source · Tech News · Web 2.0
MacBook Air: An Obsession with Thin
January 16th, 2008 4 Comments
Announced at MacWorld yesterday, the MacBook Air is an ultra-thin laptop that is… well… ultra-thin. It skimps out in almost every other facet from storage to expansion ports and still has the same footprint as larger thicker models. Kevin Naits put together a great little video montage poking fun at the obsessive nature of the [...]
iPod Touch: Unboxing
January 16th, 2008 No Comments
Over the last several months, my 20GB 4th Gen iPod has been giving me some trouble, mainly because I’m hard on my gadgets and this one’s been battered about a few too many times. With hard-drive based media players this usually means that the device is as good as bricked. I’ve been hanging in there [...]
Tags: Apple · Gadgets · Geeky · Hardware · iPod Touch · Unboxing
Now I’m a Published Photographer!
January 15th, 2008 2 Comments
[[Welcome to this, the 200th post on kdmurray.net!]] I got confirmation today that the folks over at Schmapp have selected one of my photos for inclusion in their 2007 Los Angeles travel guide in the “Best of the Beach” section. The photo is one I took of the Santa Monica pier when we were in [...]
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SimCity Source Code Released Under GPL
January 14th, 2008 No Comments
Bil Simser has posted an article on his blog about the release of the source code for the original SimCity under the GPL. The GPL’d version has been renamed under the original working title Micropolis to protect the trademarks of Electronic Arts who currently own the intellectual property for the Sim* franchise. If the original [...]
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