The Webtop is Dead?
Posted on December 28, 2007 by Ben Cecka
According to a recent survey by NPD, the following was found:
Ninety-four percent of U.S. consumers have never heard of Web-based productivity suite alternatives. A mere 0.5 percent have substituted Web-based productivity suites for desktop software such as Microsoft Office. Chris Swenson, NPD’s director of Software Industry Analysis, described the 0.5 percent figure as being a […]
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10,000 Records
Posted on December 17, 2007 by Ben Cecka
This is purely a self-congratulatory post that signifies my very first ever database now has a single table surpassing the 10,000 record mark.
It’s a sales tracking table that has only increased at a rate of about 10 records per day, but after a few years that really adds up! Thanks to a nifty caching system […]
Norton Antivirus for Mac
Posted on December 10, 2007 by Ben Cecka
So Norton has released a version of their flagship product for the Mac? Please tell me this isn’t so!
All that I can say here is that I hope Mac users have paid attention to Windows users with Symantec’s products — specifically Norton Antivirus. I’ll admit that on my personal Linux machines I don’t run anything […]
LogMeIn IT Reach
Posted on December 9, 2007 by Ben Cecka
While I’m personally a huge fan of UltraVNC and the RealVNC projects, some video issues with our software made them extremely unstable to the point that I had to find an alternative remote support solution. I looked at a few of them and settled on LogMeIn’s IT Reach.
It’s an impressive product and very affordable, even […]
Backup and Email a MySQL Database
Posted on December 3, 2007 by Ben Cecka
I know there are a hundred and fifty scripts that do this, but I set out to do this within a single Crontab entry. I thought it would be nice to post and save others from having to suffer with combining a bunch of ridiculous scripts for such a simple task.
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword –all-databases | […]
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