--- title: links for 2007-04-21 date: 2007-04-21T05:29:52Z modified: 2007-04-21T05:29:52Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/20/links-for-2007-04-21/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1517 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-04-21T05:29:52Z tags: - Links --- - [O’Reilly Radar > Ubuntu Live Registration Open](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/ubuntu_live_reg.html) cool! i’m a “familiar name” 😉 – on a related note, Ubuntu Live should be fun – you should go (tags: [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu) [O’Reilly](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/O'Reilly) [conference](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/conference) [OSCON](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OSCON)) - [Microsoft Happenings – Miguel de Icaza](http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Apr-20.html) “Lacking a viable open source-based competitor today for rich media delivery on the web and given the current state of both Flash and Silverlight, it is in open source’s best interest to ensure that Flash gets ahead of the competition.” (tags: [migueldeicaza](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/migueldeicaza) [Flash](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Flash) [Silverlight](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Silverlight) [video](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/video) [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [YouTube](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/YouTube)) - [Deborah Howell – Readers’ Plea: Get to the Point – washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601752.html) i’m terrible at this (tags: [via:Anne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Anne) [writing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/writing) [brevity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/brevity) [style](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/style)) - [Ed Brill](http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/two-views-of-lotus-in-smb?opendocument&comments#anc1) as Cote said, this is notable especially for the comments re: IBM and SMBs (tags: [SMB](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SMB) [IBM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/IBM) [Lotus](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Lotus) [EdBrill](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EdBrill) [via:Cote](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Cote)) - [Reason Magazine – Back to 18?](http://reason.com/news/show/119618.html) amen – i’m all for this; while well intentioned, the law actually encourages dangerous behaviors (tags: [drinking](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/drinking) [age](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/age) [US](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/US)) - [Photo Matt » Vista, SSD, and Sound](http://photomatt.net/2007/04/17/vista-ssd-and-sound/) Matt on solid state drives – gotta get me one of those (and who wants to bet that Apple will be one of the first out of the gate with them?) (tags: [SSD](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SSD) [solidstate](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/solidstate) [flash](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/flash) [drives](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/drives) [MattMullenweg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MattMullenweg)) - [Blog | rlove](http://rlove.org/log/2007041801) unlike Dave, Robert’s a fan of Google Apps (tags: [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [Apps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Apps) [RobertLove](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RobertLove) [DaveRosenberg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DaveRosenberg)) - [» Apple’s new kick-butt file system | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com](http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=123) ZFS should be a very interesting addition to the Apple lineup, for many of the reasons mentioned here (tags: [ZFS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ZFS) [Sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sun) [Solaris](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Solaris) [Apple](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Apple) [OSX](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OSX) [via:Simon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Simon)) - [Changing SVN Repositories at Scattered](http://dancameron.org/general/1796) assuming you followed the svn updating procedure we use at RedMonk, here’s instructions on how to move to 2.2 once it goes final (tags: [Subversion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Subversion) [SVN](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SVN) [DanCameron](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DanCameron) [WordPress](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WordPress) [updating](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/updating) [backup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/backup)) - [RAID-1 in My Ubuntu Installation](http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/raid.html) just what it says (tags: [RAID1](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RAID1) [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu) [setup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/setup) [configuration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/configuration)) - [Installation – Community Ubuntu Documentation](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#head-ca8e337bdfab6bfa1d064371898775fe1e9e22fd) information on installing Ubuntu – includes network based installs (tags: [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu) [network](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/network) [installation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/installation)) - [Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent To Offer Open Source Version of Slingshot](http://joyeur.com/2007/04/17/joyent-slingshot-business-model) Joyent goes the dual license route for Slingshot (tags: [Slingshot](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Slingshot) [Joyent](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Joyent) [duallicense](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/duallicense) [GPL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GPL)) - [eMusic Download Manager 4.0 – Alpha](http://developer.emusic.com/) new XUL-Runner based application from eMusic (tags: [via:Rafe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Rafe) [xulrunner](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/xulrunner) [emusic.com](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/emusic.com) [cross-platform](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cross-platform)) - [Google becoming Microsoft + Yahoo at the same time? – SWiK](http://swik.net/User:alex/Alex+Bosworth+-+The+Races/Google+becoming+Microsoft+%2B+Yahoo+at+the+same+time%3F/4ahk) Alex isn’t enthusiastic about the GOOG’s current branding and acquisition strategy (tags: [AlexBosworth](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AlexBosworth) [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [Yahoo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Yahoo) [M&A](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/M&A) [branding](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/branding)) - [The NOSE: Information Technology in Higher Education: Second Life To Open Source Server Code](http://tatler.typepad.com/nose/2007/04/second_life_to_.html) great news, courtesy of Al (tags: [AlEssa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AlEssa) [SecondLife](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SecondLife) [education](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/education) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [server](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/server)) - [me talking out loud](http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/20/getting-joins/) can’t remember who linked to this, but they’re right – this is the best explanation of SQL joins i’ve seen (tags: [SQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SQL) [joins](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/joins) [database](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/database) [outer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/outer) [inner](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/inner) [venn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/venn))