Chuck Norris fact #25: Chuck Norris originally appeared in the “Street Fighter II” video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this “glitch,” Norris replied, “That’s no glitch.”
Archive for February, 2006
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Friday, February 24th, 2006GQLPlus
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006If you’re from the MySQL world, and like the command history environment missing in SQL*Plus, take a look at GQLPlus.
You can install it locally and add it to your PATH.
I’ve read about “EDIT” too, which will let you either edit the last line in SQL*Plus, or a file: “EDIT file.sql”.
EMA Linux TCO Study
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006Here are the results from the EMA Linux TCO Study.
Some of the key findings contradict earlier claims that Windows has a lower Total Cost of Ownership than Linux. Some of the benefits of Linux management are more sophisticated package management, especially with Debian-based and Gentoo distributions vs. Redhat.
There’s also a PDF entitled “Get the Truth on Linux Management“