Browsing archives for August, 2009

Natasha Tsakos: Being human is an artform

Internet Zeitgeist 30 August 2009 | 2 Comments

This presentation of Natasha Tsakos is very well prepared and entertaining. She shows us a new form of theater, coupled with art and technology. My favorite paragraph is “Being human is an artform”. Watch for your self.

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A petition to Apple to drop AT & T

Apple 18 August 2009 | 9 Comments

Thought this to be quite useful for my American friends.

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Reasons for going Open Source

Internet Zeitgeist,open source 16 August 2009 | 2 Comments

Recently at a conference where I was presenting our Open Source Digital Asset Management, I realized that our company was the only one, out of 60 other companies, that was using a Open Source License. Usually, in this surrounding I get asked more then once how Open Source works for us and primary if we [...]

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Apple or not – that is the question

Apple,Internet Zeitgeist 12 August 2009 | 1 Comment

The recent eMail von Jason Calacanis and his blog post entitled “The Case against Apple in five Parts” brought a little up stir in the Apple world. The recent reply came from Marco.  You can read their back and forth on Jason’s take on Apple and make up your own mind. I have read all [...]

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Automatic Memory Management in Oracle Database 11g

Development,linux 1 August 2009 | 5 Comments

Oracle Database 11g brings lot of new enhancements, especially in the Memory management. Oracle 11g allows you to allocate one chunk of memory, which Oracle uses to dynamically manage both the SGA and PGA. Automatic memory management is configured using two new initialization parameters: MEMORY_TARGET: The amount of shared memory available for Oracle to use [...]

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Setting the correct Java version under MacOS X

Apple,CFML,Development,open source 1 August 2009 | 4,229 Comments

My favorite scripting language is CFML, or as some know it as ColdFusion. I like it because it is very very powerful, easy to use and can do just about everything your xyz language can do. For many years, ColdFusion was a closed sourced system, where the former Macromedia and now Adobe got the copyright [...]

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