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Sequences in the open source PostgreSQL database are special tables used for generating integer sequences. Typically, they are used to create a unique record ID (or key) for each row in a table. Read on to dig a little deeper into sequences and discover their full potential.

It's the season of the end-of-the-year reviews. We have used our crystal ball to jump forwards a year to provide you the ultimate review of 2007 -- here and now.

Shares in Red Hat rose by 25 per cent after the company released details of its third-quarter results.

This is a description of how to set up a secure tunnel between your MySQL Server and a locally running MySQL Administrator using Putty. By creating a secure tunnel to your MySQL server using Putty, you can grant localhost access to powerful applications like MySQL Administrator while at the same time, make your server appear as if it isn't even there. In effect, make your MySQL server disappear from the outside world.

CHARLIE'S BLAST AT MICROSOFT, which you can find here, justly berates the software giant for clinging, Rottweiler-like, to its daft product activation scheme, which should have been sent to the gulag years ago. Vista, he claims, will play no part in his future plans, due to the frequency with which he upgrades, tweaks and otherwise spiffs-up his PCs.

C'est la vie...Germany is withdrawing from an agreement with France to develop a Google-beating search engine.

The OpenBeacon tracking system was first tried out at the Chaos Communication Conference last week in Berlin.

The company successfully manages its customers' Internet and IT needs using what CTO John Engates calls "fanatical support." It addresses the concept that customer service is a lost art. "Being better than others is the sweet spot," he said. "We handle the gamut of clients, from those wanting to do it themselves to those that want to outsource everything."

This article explores the ideas behind virtualization and then discusses some of the many ways to implement virtualization. We also look at some of the other virtualization technologies out there, such as operating system virtualization on Linux.

Carla Schroder of ServerWatch discovers the open source Citadel groupware server and declares it "a genuine turnkey messaging suite — install it and start using it. No muss, no fuss; just a nice integrated package all ready to go to work."

OpenOffice.org expert Solveig Haugland has published a massive new manual called the OpenOffice.org 2 Guide. This 520-page tome will be useful both for OOo newbies and power users who are interested in learning arcane features of the office suite.

Better late than never: Klaus Knopper, the maker of Knoppix, has released version 5.1.0 of his Linux distribution that runs from CD or DVD. In addition to regular updates and the usual bug fixes, this latest version of Knoppix also contains a few genuine innovations.

Alcune settimane fa abbiamo chiesto a Judd Vinet, creatore e sviluppatore principale di Archlinux, di parlarci un po' del progetto in questione da lui creato alcuni anni fa. Di seguito vi proponiamo l'intervista completa (in lingua inglese), che speriamo possa essere di vostro gradimento.

[The actual interview with Archlinux creator/maintainer, Judd Vinet, is in English. - dcparris]

If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista.

[Bishop writes about a FOSS project the PI is using... Interesting. - dcparris]

With so many RSS aggregators to choose from, you can pick the one that fits your specific needs. If you don't want to install anything on your machine and you need to be able to access your news feeds from anywhere, you can opt for a Web-based solution like Netvibes. If you prefer a dedicated desktop RSS reader chock-full of features, then something like RSSOwl or BlogBridge is the way to go. But if you don't want to get used to a whole new application, you might want to give infoRSS a try. Unlike other RSS aggregators, infoRSS is a Thunderbird/Firefox extension that runs inside your email client or browser.

It's been kinda sorta available since mid-November, but it wasn't since the past week or two that Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 was freely available (i.e. you didn't have to pay $100 for the DVDs) to make all your open-source PS3 dreams come true.

Once upon a time, Google was a small start-up run by a couple of bright graduate students and everybody loved it. Now it's a hugely-profitable multinational corporation run by three multi-billionaires, it has a monopoly market share of the search market, and almost life-or-death power over thousands of small companies -- a power it exercises in secret, with no accountability, in what some would regard as an arrogant and autocratic way. Google may still be loved, but it is also feared. Really really feared.

p2pnet.net News:- "Welcome to the Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union," says the site. "Here you can select to view live transmissions of ongoing public events at the Council or browse in our archives."

[Obviously, we strongly encourage our European friends to LOUDLY protest the locking out of GNU/Linux users. - dcparris]

Though I'm reasonably comfortable with computers –- to use, not to sound intelligent about –- and I like the opportunity for playtime they provide, I'm not what the techies would call an early adopter. It was probably a year after my brother encouraged me to get out of my Internet Explorer comfort zone and try Firefox before I took the plunge. Then I kicked myself for not doing it sooner.

[Aw, c'mon! Take the plunge! At least go dual-boot for a while. - dcparris]

helios is always worth a read. this entry is a bit long, so if you don't have the patience to read all of it, here are the highlights (search for the strings in quotes): * how linux is ready for the desktop, and what microsoft has to do with it. (first part) * what keeps linux from being popular on the desktop? ("Truth Happens") * "where is the corporate support for advertising?" (a tale of helios encounter with his boss, my favorite part)