Sun Microsystems to buy MySQL

Author: Bayo Oyekole
Posted in X-Files on January 17th, 2008 
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Well, here is an official announcement that Sun is buying MySQL . One is forced to wonder, what will then happen to the close bonding that has been going on between Java and Oracle now that sun will have its own RDBMS? Hmm… the possibilities are looking interesting. Maybe organisations will begin to take the MySQL Database managers more seriously, if they’ve got the weight of Sun and the almighty Java behind them. Yeah, getting an OCP alone is not enough anymore.

Bloggertizer.com: Is It Worth The Money?

Author: danielcrichton
Posted in X-Files, Website Reviews on January 7th, 2008 
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At the risk of sounding cynical, blogging for cash is low paying generic task (i hope not) , a field dominated by eastern Europeans in Europe and by various types of people in the United States (some times i think paid blogging should be shipped to a country with lower wages), but it does have its upside. Hosting and domain name registration gets paid for without much bother (gets paid for several times over), there are dozens of sites that offer blogging for cash services, from the ubiquitous and controversial payperpostto the extremely strict and high paying smorty, but there are dozens of other in the midrange, from those that pay (GASP!) one dollar for each post, to those that average 5 to 15 dollars per post

Whats It With Blogvertise!

Author: danielcrichton
Posted in X-Files, Website Reviews on January 5th, 2008 
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As with all blogs, this particular one is always seeking new ways of generating income (see all the lovely Google ad’s littering the environment), my self and Bayo finally hit on a genius idea, we get paid for blogging! so i (as the marketing side of our part time gig) delved into the risky and fast moving world of blog advertising, a much maligned and relatively easy going task (i hope) and one of the blogs we ran into was blogvertise, now why would we pick blogvertise over sites such as pay per post and review me, well…we are not. the geniuses that do blog advertising seem to

Server Network Fiasco’s

Author: danielcrichton
Posted in X-Files, Desktops and Servers on January 5th, 2008 
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Laptop Batteries at Factory prices and Same Day Shipping!
I just have to vent on several products that are simply giving me nightmares in installation and maintenance, and the surprising thing is this is really pricey software, with prices ranging from 10k to 100k usd for an unlimited number of licences on a single network, but before i go into the problems i had with it (and a sensor with an 80 percent failure rate) let me describe an incredibly embarrassing incident that occured to me.