On The Margins(Masood Mortazavi)The tortuous path to Internet research- May 31, 2008 Oddly, tonight, when I try to find and browse (on my iMac w OS-X Leopard) Pew Internet and American Life Project, one of the most credible Internet watchers, using Google Search, I may end up in a place containing a warning that "visiting this web site may harm your computer" or what Google calls a "Malware Warning"apparently "Google has found that some portion of pewinternet.org contains or links to badware or otherwise violates Google's software guidelines." ...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/the_tortuous_path_to_internet Sun OpenSolaris on Amazon Web Services- May 23, 2008 Simone Brunozzi writes about availability of OpenSolaris on Amazon Web Services.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/sun_opensolaris_on_amazon_web PGCon 2008- May 22, 2008 After two days of PostgreSQL tutorials, several evenings of gatherings and a hackers' meeting, PGCon 2008 sessions began today. Yesterday, Yahoo did make an important announcement having to do with their leveraging of PostgreSQL source base to build a system to run the largest database in the world. Reports of Yahoo's work can be found at InformationWeek ("Yahoo Claims Record with Petabyte Database") and ComputerWorld ("Size Matters: Yahoo Claims 2-Petabyte Database is the...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/pgcon_2008 10 Patents- May 13, 2008 Here are some of my patent applications. Of course, there are other places to look for patent information. Google has a nice patent search interface. So, for example, you can look at my patent number 7,000,228.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/10_patents DTrace Probes for Databases- May 10, 2008 Robert Lor has listed potential standard DTrace probes for databases and some PostgreSQL-specific probes.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/dtrace_probes_for_databases Who Dons the Java DB T-Shirt- May 9, 2008 Giuseppe Maxia took this picture at JavaOne, 2008, just a couple of days ago. It shows Marten Mickos (MySQL) donning the Java DB T-Shirt and giving a friendly hug to PostgreSQL evangelist Josh Berkus. That's how the story of the three open-source databases from Sun will keep unfolding. Many observers have noted that customers and developers will have great choices to work with: the premier open-source DB for web applications,the premier open-source DB for demanding enterprise and...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/who_dons_the_java_db The Self-Ordering Chaos of Communities- May 8, 2008 In the chaos of their buzz and movement, bees build amazingly ordered nests for their young. So do many communities of practice.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/the_self_ordering_chaos_of Connecting News Sources- May 7, 2008 As I was driving back from Java One in San Francisco Monday evening, I listened to the BBC report on KQED. The BBC carried a 5-minute-long report on Iraq, describing the "conflict" there and the immense rise in poverty and lack of basic services, without once managing to mention that taboo word: "occupation". In the morning, Financial Times carried a picture on the front page describing how sophisticated military equipment was being used to create an exclusion zone around...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/connecting_news_sources JavaOne 2008- May 5, 2008 I will be at JavaOne 2008 for most of this week.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/javaone_2008 PG on Mac- May 5, 2008 The PostgreSQL 7.3 installation instructions for Mac OS-X also work well for installing PostreSQL 8.3. The changes you need to make to these instructions should be obvious. On Tiger, building PostgreSQL from source will require XCode 2.5 Developer Tools from Apple, which is a free download for members of ADC.(By the way, if you're using PostgreSQL on Solaris and need support, you can purchase it directly from Sun.)http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/pg_on_mac |