Monthly Archives: April 2009

Wolfram|Alpha is near

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 … Continue reading

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Managning users in OpenBSD

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 … Continue reading

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DB2 crashes when LOAD used on generated field

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 … Continue reading

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