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Prof. Eric Brewer of Inktomi talked about the re-emergence of the time-sharing idea in the form of web service in his recent interview with FT. Tell me if I am being dumb, but is he saying what I am hearing or is the journalist confused with what he was actually saying?

WARNING! The following article is very old, in fact more than 2 years old!

It's a kind of pain to make work together Linux, AvantGo, Evolution and Sony Clie or any Palm devices. Sony Clie is well recognised by kernels >= 2.4 through the USB Serial converter, and simply linking /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyUSB0 enabled to sync it with most sync tools available in Linux, including JPilot. However, Evolution, which I think is by far the best PIM available in Linux, causes a problem syncing, probably due to its use of gnome pilot. Gnome-pilot seems to have stopped being developed and it hardly has any documentation, as far as I know. But I still wanted to make Evolution and my Clie sync! In addition, I like AvantGo (http://www.avantgo.com), which provides a free service to download news from various sources on the Internet and, again, want to sync through Linux.

Zoho adds offline functionality with Google Gears by ZDNet's Ryan Stewart -- Zoho announced today that they’ve added hooks into Google Gears in their Zoho Writer program so that you can access and modify your documents when you’re offline. After hanging out with Dion Almaer on the bus I was really anxious to see someone else use Google Gears and I hadn’t checked out Zoho Writer in [...]

What a life-saver this was.

Change all tables to Unicode:

for table in `mysql -h-u -p -e "show tables" | grep -v Tables`; do mysql -h-u -p -e "alter table $table convert to character set utf8" ; done


Change DB to Unicode :

mysql -h -u -p -e "alter database character set utf8";


.....use CVS to maintain my Drupal sites rather than manually downloading Drupal updates and upgrading by copying the updates into your drupal folder. Manually updating is time consuming. In order to do it correctly you shouldn't just copy the new files overtop of your existing install since this could leave old files in your folder that are no longer used and can cause problems or security holes. To do it right you need to rebuild your Drupal folder and then copy in your settings, themes, etc. Then you may also need to go and download all your modules again for the new version. It turns into a chore quickly. A much better way is to use CVS to handle all the grunt work.......