Articles for tag: Solaris

Karla News

Why Did Sun Microsystems Fail?

True story. Back when I was in college in the late 1990s, Sun Microsytems was bad-ass. They were the company on the rise that was going to take down Microsoft, and I wanted to be there to help them. Unfortunately, the dot-com bust happened, and when I graduated, Sun wasn’t hiring. No big deal, I ...

Karla News

Open Source IPMI Software Summary

Following up a previous overview of IPMI, the following is a summary of the major open source IPMI projects. There are many other higher level projects, such as monitoring software, that support IPMI. However, most of those projects support IPMI via open source components listed below. Therefore, higher level software will not be discussed. IPMItool ...

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Live Music at Bars and Clubs Near Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, NC has lots of live music; you just have to know where to look. One thing to check out if you’re wanting to see some live music is one of the free local weeklies around town, such as Yes! Weekly or Go Triad. Both of these have a section devoted to music at bars, ...

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MySQL Basics

To develop an understanding of MySQL, it is best to start with some basic background knowledge. First and foremost MySQL is a RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) that runs on a server. It is capable of operating independently or with a web application running a scripting language, like PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) or JSP (JavaScript). It ...