Posted on Thursday, 30th April 2009 by Balazs
Having used Mathematica for years, I might be biased, but I just saw the latest articles about Wolfram|Alpha and I wonder: does it have the potential to be the next Google killer, or not?
Frederic Lardinois says in Wolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions that it isn’t going to be a Google killer, but I’m not convinced. [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th April 2009 by Balazs
One of the neat features of OpenBSD is that it can be installed easily in network appliances, such as the Soekris boxes. One of the great tools that makes this task easy is flashdist. In that reduced distribution, some usual apps are missing, such as adduser. OpenBSD has it own way of handling users, and [...]
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Posted on Monday, 13th April 2009 by Balazs
When trying to LOAD table data where one of the rows are generated, DB2 9.1 and 9.5 on Linux and AIX will crash if the generated field uses a user defined function (fenced or unfenced). IBM is aware of the issue, and the following APARs exist to track the problem:
V9.1 APAR is IZ48197
V9.5 APAR is [...]
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