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I found this signboard on one of the university in Malaysia. It seems that here, Solaris is more than a merely operating system but a distro bistro! Wonder if Sun Microsystem will take action if this bistro is located in the United States?
[tags]sun,solaris,operating system[/tags]
I’ve been busy for the past week, but during my absent, I’ve the opportunity to test SQLyog, a powerful MySQL manangement tool from Webyog.
The application has the same functionalities as the popular web based phpMyAdmin, plus some other neat feature that usually found in enterprise level tool.
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The application lets you organise the database, create indexes, views, manage stored procedures and database triggers. SQLyog also can help you to manage backup and make copies of your database across different host.
SQLyog itself is suprisingly responsive compared to similar product produced by well-known database vendor. Being developed using C++ language and using MySQL C API, the client has direct access to MySQL, which makes it run faster.
Another worth noting feature is the Migration toolkit which allows you to migrate existing database from other DBMS (i.e DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL) via ODBC interface.
Download
SQLyog can be downloaded from its website : http://webyog.com/en/downloads.php
The source code can be obtained from Google Code project repository, via Subversion.
p/s : It would be nice to have this kinda of application on GNU/Linux platform, maybe some people would complain that it isn’t 1337, but I think people working with GNU/Linux? deserve conveniences.
[tags]sqlyog,database,mysql,php,linux,windows[/tags]
OpenDarwin website has posted this announcement,
Over the past few years, OpenDarwin has become a mere hosting facility for Mac OS X related projects. The original notions of developing the Mac OS X and Darwin sources has not panned out. Availability of sources, interaction with Apple representatives, difficulty building and tracking sources, and a lack of interest from the community have all contributed to this. Administering a system to host other people’s projects is not what the remaining OpenDarwin contributors had signed up for and have been doing this thankless task far longer than they expected. It is time for OpenDarwin to go dark.
Tough luck eh, Hexley
Evolution, the GNOME desktop email client is now available on Microsoft Windows from now on. So Evolution lover can now use their beloved email client on Windows instead of substitute it with Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.
The installer can be downloaded from itssourceforge.net project page and the download size is about 48MB. Like gaim and xchat under Windows, evolution depends heavily on GTK+ library and the application itself has a distinguish GNOME look on your desktop.
Users who are not used to Evolution on GNOME desktop might complaint about how Evolution “stands out” from other Windows application, not to mention about GTK+ quirks under Windows (the stubborn tooltips phenomenon).
All in all, it’s nice to have Evolution ported to Windows Desktop as users now have more choices of email clients, giving diversity. That’s the beauty of free software.
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If you have used GNU/Linux before, and love playing games there, then you might love playing the same game on Windows too. Although most personally I think free software model doesn’t work well with games, but free and open source software games do exists on Windows!
Here’s the screenshot of some Open Source Windows games that you can get on the internet:
Get them at http://osswin.sourceforge.net/games.html
For some reason, you might want to install Microsoft Windows XP on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, one of the main reason is because you want to be able to do development without booting your pc into other operating system, the other reason is you might want to try out something on the other operating system while you’re using Linux.
Whatever the reason are, you might run into some trouble if you’re trying to install Windows XP on QEMU for the first time and this howto might get you out from messy situations.
Read : How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper