Microsoft files response in European antitrust case

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, responded to European Union charges that the company illegally ties its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system.
Publication date: 2009-04-30

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MySQL and Drizzle Tip: Checking configuration file syntax (faking configtest)

In the Apache world, you might be familiar with tweaking your config file(s) and then running $ apachectl configtest to see if the config parses. We've been discussing this on the drizzle mailing list and talking in general about configuration handling and management. Well, it turns out that you can fake it in MySQL and Drizzle too. If you have a new configuration in /tmp/new.cnf, try this: $ mysqld --defaults-file=/tmp/new.cnf --verbose --help And it'll run mysqld (or drizzled), parse the config, report any problems, print help, and exit without initializing storage engines or trying to grab a port. Neat trick! Thanks to Baron Schwartz, Arjen Lentz, and Sheeri Cabral (book) for helping to demonstrate this. (comments)
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Numonyx leads the charge into Phase Change Memory

Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology, which is poised to succeed flash memory, is the reason behind a licensing agreement that Numonyx signed with Ovonyx. As you probably know, flash stores and transfers data between computers and other digital products, such as your digital camera. As scaling becomes too expensive for flash and DRAM, PCM may [...]
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Befuddling, if not tongue twisting, technological terminology

The Gadget Helpline made up a Top 10 list of technology words that are most confusing to the British (and I would guess American) public. At least they are the words that befuddle the 5,000 people they surveyed. How many from the list can you identify in the following discussion? Top of the list is “dongle” [...]
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