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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready
MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready: "MySQL announced the general availability of MySQL 4.1. Certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment, this significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration tools, and support for international character sets and geographic data."
(Via OSNews.)
Well, I know what I'm going to be doing the next week or so. Installing 4.1 on some test servers to see if it's ready to go to a production server. I sure do want those subqueries!
7:16:02 PM Permalink
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416.4 Years of Carbombs
416.4 Years of Carbombs: "There's 380 missing tons of high-quality explosives in Iraq.
That's 760,000 pounds of RDX.
A single pound of RDX was enough to bring down the Lockerbie plane.
Let's say that 5 pounds of explosives make an adequate carbomb or suicide bomb, just to be on the safe side.
That means that the 380 tons of missing RDX could supply the Iraqi insurgency with 152,000 car and/or suicide bombs.
152,000 bombs.
If the Iraqi insurgency used three of these bombs a day against our troops and the Iraqi people, that means they have enough explosives to keep bombing for over 400 years.
416.4 years, to be precise.
And all because somebody in the Bush Administration decided not to guard a site that the IAEA warned us about specifically before the war began.
How exactly is Bush making us safer? Explain this to me again..."
(Via Bolo Boffin.)
2:02:18 PM Permalink
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Left Behind
Left Behind: "The American media and the Pentagon have trumpeted the collapse of the Taliban and the “liberation” of Afghanistan, but for the Afghan people, conditions have not changed. Indeed, they may be getting worse.
The Afghan refugee and humanitarian crisis continues: Billions have been promised in foreign aid, but little of it has reached Afghanistan. An official from the U.N. Population Fund says the relief effort, to succeed, must be conducted on an unprecedented scale. “It is larger than Kosovo,” he says. “In Kosovo, there were 1.5 million people, and in Afghanistan there are 20 million.” In a country that has one doctor for every 50,000 people, the overall mortality rate has doubled since August.
International peacekeeping troops, stationed in Kabul, have been able to maintain a measure of security in the city’s streets. But outside Kabul, there are no peacekeeping forces, and regional warlords still rule. Infighting between rival warlords…"
(Via In These Times.)
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