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 Backup is the most important method for protecting mission-critical data. Traditionally, a backup system meant a tape drive attached to a server or mainframe. Software on the server regularly dumped an image of the entire set of disks to the tape each night. If things went well, someon... Dec. 23, 2005 Reads: 8,135 Replies: 1 |  For C++ programmers all over the world, Boost and the Boost libraries have become indispensable. Weighing in at 60 C++ libraries, Boost is a large collection of peer-reviewed code covering a wide range of domains. But why should you care about that? Well, because Boost can quickly beco... Dec. 21, 2005 Reads: 17,433 Replies: 3 |  Asterisk has gotten a lot of press coverage lately. What's all the commotion about? Asterisk is a software-based solution that provides more features than many expensive commercial PBX systems. Best of all, it's free and works with dozens of standard IP telephones. Dec. 19, 2005 Reads: 12,965 Replies: 1 |  For this installment of my recruiting/certification column, I have decided to turn my attention to the MySQL certification. It's another one of the open source-based certification programs that seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the marketplace. We, as most of you probably know, ... Dec. 12, 2005 Reads: 16,825 Replies: 2 |  Matt Asay, the founder of the Open Source Business Conference, discusses his views on the conference and open source businesses and products. Matt works at Novell as director, Open Source Strategy. Prior to Novell, he worked with Lawrence Lessig at Stanford and subsequently at Lineo. Dec. 9, 2005 Reads: 9,618 Replies: 1 |  Lost passwords, easily guessed passwords, accounts with no passwords - they are all huge security risks; however, there often isn't a better, more economical way for companies on a limited budget. Biometric authentication can be expensive to implement, and many organizations have to tr... Dec. 7, 2005 Reads: 11,558 Replies: 2 |  C/C++ language variadic functions are functions that accept a variable number of arguments. Variadic functions are implemented using either the ANSI C stdarg approach or, historically, the UNIX System V vararg approach. Both approaches require that the contract between the developer an... Dec. 6, 2005 Reads: 16,515 Replies: 1 |  My aunt and I were having an e-mail discussion about which is the easiest to use: a real photo album with pictures or a computer photo album, as on a CD-ROM. I suggested that we put all the family photos into an album rather than having them strewn all over the place in photo folders. ... Dec. 3, 2005 Reads: 9,723 Replies: 1 |  Lately, I've been feeling a little nostalgic about what I call the 'golden age' of consumer software innovation in the late '80s and early '90s. Back then I was cutting my teeth at a medium-sized Mac software publisher called Silicon Beach Software that had a few early successes and th... Nov. 30, 2005 Reads: 8,153 Replies: 2 |
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