ISP helps members sell Net to neighbors

ISP helps members sell Net to neighbors. Independent broadband provider Speakeasy is allowing subscribers to resell their Internet access via wireless set-ups–turning their homes into Wi-Fi hot spots. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL

OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL. I'm in John Ashenfelter's Data Warehouses talk this morning. He's an excellent presenter who really knows his material and is completely sold on MySQL. At least one person in the audience has already extolled the use of MySQL in data warehousing applications. I'm taking notes real-time, so… Continue reading OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL

X-log

What does the future hold for UserLand? Dave is at Harvard working on his fellowship. John Robb is no longer with the company. This leaves Jake and Lawrence treading water. What will become of Frontier, Manila, Radio, XML-RPC, and RSS, not to mention all of the other great stuff that is being held by the… Continue reading X-log

A shakeup at Userland?

A shakeup at Userland?.  Looks like things are moving over in Userland, where (except for Dave, who is after all only majority shareholder now, having given up the CEO-ship when he took his fellowship) only Lawrence’s blog and the product news page have been active in the past month. Yesterday two significant happenings: John Robb… Continue reading A shakeup at Userland?

Untitled

Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we're not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radio users, and for the weblog community. We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us by writing about his departure on his weblog.… Continue reading Untitled

Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance

Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance. Two open source companies, Pogo Linux Inc., a Linux hardware vendor, and MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today a partnership to build the first MySQL® database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering optimized for speed… Continue reading Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance

Massport Hunts for Logan Contractor

Massport Hunts for Logan Contractor. Massachusetts port authority Massport expects $2.5M to unwire Logan International AirPort: Although the article focuses on Wi-Fi, it's almost certain that the “other wireless” is cellular. As Dick Snyder of Concourse Communications noted when speaking on the panel on airports I moderated at 802.11 Planet, port authorities need the whole… Continue reading Massport Hunts for Logan Contractor