Firstly, take an iPad and restore it to factory settings. We used spare iPads for this but you could equally back up and erase the pupil’s own iPad for the duration of the exams.
Next, install PDF Expert from the App Store.
via Fraser Speirs – Blog – Digital Exams on the iPad.
Interesting.
This may present some messaging problems for the big commercial Linux vendors, by the way: if the distribution underneath becomes less important, then Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server may soon have a serious fight on their hands. In the past, one of the big differentiators has been that these “big” distros provide solid infrastructures in which business applications can be developed. If this Linux-is-Linux-is-Linux idea takes root, that will undercut a big marketing tool for Red Hat and SUSE Linux.
via Move to mobile will bring big changes for Linux | ITworld.
But I don’t think that’s going to last. The Linux community may be cocky now, but let’s think through this Linux-is-everywhere scenario a bit. If the operating system becomes just a background component that runs more web than native apps and app development for the platform itself becomes de-emphasized, then the obvious question then becomes: what does it matter it it’s Linux running on the operating system layer?
You still need a reliable OS to run the web servers which is the space RHEL and SUSE enterprise sell into.
Blue box is a nice front end gui for Freeswitch.
So if we say OpenSIPs is the load balancer that directs traffic (call flow) along the road which is the Internet…where does all that traffic get directed towards? You guessed it. FreeSWITCH.
FreeSWITCH is a media server. Think of a media server as being similar to a language translator between two people who speak two completely different languages. In its simplest form, a media server takes audio from one person, processes it, and passes it on to another person. It also provides translation services, meaning if one person “talks” another language it can convert that language on the fly to something the other party can understand.
Business-Class
Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
via Spanning.
$30/year to backup app data. I wonder if cloud to cloud stuff will soon take on the acronym c2c. AFAIK, this only backs up google apps. What about other apps?
Service Location Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Service Location Protocol (SLP, srvloc) is a service discovery protocol that allows computers and other devices to find services in a local area network without prior configuration. SLP has been designed to scale from small, unmanaged networks to large enterprise networks. It has been defined in RFC 2608 and RFC 3224 as Standards Track document.
Welcome to the Yahoo! Hadoop tutorial! This series of tutorial documents will walk you through many aspects of the Apache Hadoop system. You will be shown how to set up simple and advanced cluster configurations, use the distributed file system, and develop complex Hadoop MapReduce applications. Other related systems are also reviewed.
P3P: The Platform for Privacy Preferences.
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit. Have a look at the list of P3P software.
Disable the IPV6 in BIND. For CentOS 5.4, edit the /etc/sysconfig/named file and add the following options into the BIND startup
OPTIONS=”-4″
This will cause the BIND server to only resolve or use IPV4 and disable IPV6 support. Save the file and restart BIND server.
via CentOS 5 – BIND/named network unreachable resolving issue | hafizonline.net blog.
This has been going on for months and I finally noticed these errors from named filling up syslog. The above fix worked and now syslog is quiet again — the way it should be.
Certainly, according to the Winter Corporation’s 2005 survey, the largest OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) databases in the world are hosted on DB2. The volume prize goes to the Land Registry at 23.1 TB and the prize for the number of rows goes to UPS – 89.6 billion; both run on DB2.
via DB2 – the secret database • The Register.
DB2 has always ruled in the mainframe environment: on that platform it has no peer. In 1996 (ten years ago!) IBM made all the right technical moves to expand the use of DB2 down to the mini and even the PC markets. DB2 was produced in three versions. These have had various names over the years – UDB (Universal DataBase) was often used but it now being gently dropped by IBM. The most useful names I’ve come across are:
• DB2 for z/OS (Mainframe)
• DB2 for iSeries (AS400 as was)
• DB2 for LUW (Linux, UNIX and Windows)
Dated 18 January 2006.